VW is 'sorta' doing that, perhaps a few others. VW is designing a standardised base platforms (skateboard) and then putting different bodies on the skateboards.
Considering how simple EVs are, it would be nice if all the manufacturers standardised the skateboards into a few basic versions (compact, midsize, etc.) but this goes against their financial best interests, so I doubt it will happen anytime soon. My PGP public key: https://vanderwal.us/evdl_pgp.key July 30, 2021 10:21 PM, "EVDL Administrator via EV" <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote: > On 30 Jul 2021 at 21:39, Haudy Kazemi via EV wrote: > >> This is a battle being fought between lots of hardware manufacturers and >> owners of devices ranging from cars to tractors to phones to laptops. > > I had an insane idea in the 1990s, and it hasn't gotten any saner since. It > was down the block from impossible then, and probably right next door to it > now that EVs are actually in production, but it's kind of fun to dream > about. > > My thought was that switching the world to EVs was an opportunity to rethink > the whole idea of how vehicles are designed, made, and sold. > > We already have an open source EVSE. Why not an open source EV? > > Call it the FLOSEV - Free, libre open source electric vehicle. > > What I'm dreaming about is a simple, straightforward, no-frills reference > design EV. No power windows, no fancy sound system, no self-driving or > similar gimmicks and gadgets. Not even a specific body. Just a basic EV > platform that, with minimal changes, could be built as a functional 2- or 4- > door hatchback, small crossover, van, or pickup truck. > > The design might be placed in the public domain, or it might follow the > Creative Commons, BSD, GNU, or other similar open licensing ("copyleft"?) > scheme. > > Really ambitious EV hobbyists could build a FLOSEV from published plans. > Organizations, nonprofit or for-profit, could develop kits, semi-kits, and > finished vehicles. As with open source software, the design could be > improved or "forked" by others, as long as they adhered to the terms of the > license. > > I know, an EV is orders of magnitude more complex than an EVSE. And there > would be enormous regulatory hurdles, especially since you'd want to meet as > many nations' standards as possible. > > Financing the design would be a daunting challenge. For obvious reasons you > couldn't approach venture capitalists. Heck, if any showed interest, you'd > have to ward them off with tear gas and a large dog. > > Donations would have to play a big part, but you'd have to be careful what > foundations, individuals, and governments you approached. Look what > happened to the Tropica / Xebra and the Solectria Sunrise when outside > organizations got involved. > > As I said, this is utterly whacko. I can see hurdles, and I'm ignorant, so > I'm sure that an industry insider would see 50 foot walls topped with razor > wire, flanked by guard towers, and protected by armed guards. > > But it's still intriguing to contemplate and dream about. Wouldn't a FLOSEV > knock the socks off of the big corporate automakers? :-) > > Actually, the most likely scenario for something like this would be if the > Chinese government sponsored development of an EV platform that Chinese > automakers could adopt. That's not exactly what I have in mind though ... > > David Roden, EVDL moderator & general lackey > > To reach me, don't reply to this message; I won't get it. Use my > offlist address here : http://evdl.org/help/index.html#supt > > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = > Post-truth is pre-fascism. > > -- Timothy Snyder= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = > = = = = = = = = = = = = > > _______________________________________________ > Address messages to ev@lists.evdl.org > No other addresses in TO and CC fields > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive > LIST INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org _______________________________________________ Address messages to ev@lists.evdl.org No other addresses in TO and CC fields UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/ LIST INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org
