Tesla's competitor

I would drive the shit out of that car

The good news is: It's free
The bad news is: You have to compile it yourself
- Some assembly required
Those headlights look so easy to replace.

I just want a simple car. One without extraneous functions.

My old boss bought a brand new car that was in the shop for two of it's first four weeks. The issue? The capacitive touch sensor that operated the motorised glove box door was activating automatically because it was being confused by dust.

My shitty 15 year old VW's plastic glove box door has a metal latch and had never experienced this bug.

There certainly are places where technology and electronics can improve a car, but replacing one of the most basic, reliable mechanical functions such as a latch is arguably stupid. It's just adding numerous more failure points. It's form over function.
- Radio/media and climate controls should not be on a f*ing touch screen either.
- Yep, there are many legitimate use-cases for electronics in cars, but THIS is definitely not one of them!
Yeah I got my car 2012 right before you started to see everything in cars become computerized. It's a civic and still going strong.
- Just sold my car to buy one with digital AC 🥲
My shitty 15 year old VW's plastic glove box door has a metal latch and had never experienced this bug.
Heh, my 40 year old Deutz tractor has a metal latch on the glove box, and it will randomly flip open and hit me in the head while working in the field.
I would still prefer it over the motorized system you describe

“i upgraded the engine and one of the wheels stopped working”

Why are you using wheels anyway? Caterpillar tracks are a more modern solution and superior in every way.
- I wonder what's the fastest you could go on tracks? Apparently a record was set in 1979 (121.9 km/h, 75 mph) and never broken since as far as i can tell, or at least Guiness doesn't seem to know anything about it.
  Fellas, we need a tank, a couple V8 engines, and a case of beer
Your cardan.shaft is out of date, the interface for the wheels changed.

For those who, like me, wanted to know more about the real photo from which this was shopped: it's a 19-year-old Chinese student called Zhu Zhenlin driving his homemade solar car in 2012.

Sweet!

I don't know man. Looks like something I'd buy.

happily buy it before I gave elon musk's stupid ass a dollar.
- Hell yeah!

There actually exists an open source community for reverse-engineering EV motors, inverters, battery charging modules, BMS, and everything else necessary to build a DIY car from scrapyard components: https://openinverter.org/wiki/Main_Page

That's really cool

I just want that front plate.

Well, where do we want to found gnuland?

is there a theme to make it look like a tesla though?

Ricing has come full circle.
In all seriousness, the day someone comes out with open source replacement firmware for my car, I'm installing it the second my warranty expires.

You joke but I don't want modern cars because of the proprietary software.

I'd drive the shit out of that around town

It's not legal.
- Sometimes it can be
- You can register home-built cars, it'll need a windshield and wipers though.

Great car, the only one I'd consider driving! But would make my own fork with rearview mirrors first.

noooooooo... Stallman defines every Linux user! just like apple defines the Mac users.

well it certainly won't cost eighty fucking thousand dollars

Please post source code, i want one

I think Stallman would rather do GNU/Ebike and GNU/PublicTransit

GNU/Amsterdam

Freedom comes with a price.

- That's a hefty fuckin' fee.

"+libre"

Rip lol

Still probably runs better than the stupid ass car I'm stuck with right now lol.

Honestly, if it's cheap enough, I'd definitely buy it

Who's the wizard in the driver's seat

Some say that's the image of God
Stallman
- That name is bad juju for vehicle designers
- What you are referring to is, in fact, Richard Stallman
Zhu Zhenlin

This made me chuckle, thank you, I need it today.

I'd download this!

Looks like a car from CDDA.

"Not car. Actually, it's GNU/Car." What precedes this is the sound of thousands of glasses being adjusted.

Torvalds Motors

I overclocked it and got an extra 4 FPS! Woot!

ngl, would rather drive that than a Tesla

I wish I could improve my car for free

Lol is that Stallman in there?

Yes. Because instead of letting this be about the person who actually developed this car, someone decided it should be made about OSS' big misogynistic transphobe daddy

Can a cheaply made custom electric car be even made ? With good enough range like a 160km (100miles) or so.

I guess that depends heavily on what you consider cheap... And how fast it's supposed to go.
A friend of mine started scrounging up various battery packs from e-bikes and e-scooters. For some reason these battery packs "degrade" to the point where you have to replace it to continue to use your e-transport thingy, but all the cells inside are still perfectly healthy, so he built a battery backup for his house out of scrapped e-bikes batteries.
Apparently many bike shops have stacks of the out back that they basically give away for free as it saves them a trip to the recycling station.
The motor is probably not going to be terribly cheap, and the motors on e-bikes and such are likely not powerful enough...
You obviously also need a lot of knowhow about electronics and loads more materials to actually build a car.
There are however also people who take old gasoline cars and convert them to electric cars.
- Man, people are living in places where they get free batteries and am here living in hell, half of me buried in the desert sand and the other dead and hopeless in a place where they would sell tetanus ridden rust if they could.
I was looking at a diy electric motorcycle and worked it out roughly to six grand canadian not including the frame, it was planned up be able to get up to a hundred kilometers an hour with a range of eighty kilometers I think but that would still leave room to upgrade them later
- Where were you sourcing batteries in Canada? I have a cute little electric car from the 70s that I bought for very little, and installed a heavy, expensive, low capacity lead acid pack like it was originally designed for. Unfortunately this means the range is about 15 miles. I use it as a farm runabout but it can't make it to town and back.
  It would be a great car if I could source some used Tesla modules or similar but they are very hard to find here at the prices you see in the USA! Nominal pack voltage is 72v, i.e. 6s 12v lead acid.
Economies of scale are huge for vehicles. A single prototype vehicle like a model y or mach e often costs several million dollars. A custom car might not be that much, but it'd still be a ton.
- I meant More like A buggy. Nothing fancy just bare necessities.
Not a solar one like the thing pictured, LOL. There simply isn't enough W/m² for solar panels to power anything less light and spartan than a World Solar Challenge car.
Aside from that, the cheapest way to build a custom [battery, not solar] electric car is probably to salvage parts off a wrecked commercially-built electric car.
I'm a fan of Aging Wheels and SuperfastMatt on Youtube, both of whom are building custom EVs from used Tesla parts.
- I know they wouldn't run the can but don't they add a bit of range ?

I want such a car so badly but i think the depoliticize in Germany wouldn't allow it

Idk what KISS philosophy means but I sure do want to follow it

It stands for "Keep It Simple, Stupid"
- There's an android launcher by that name and it's fantastic. Literally achieves this principle
It revolves around rocking and rolling all night and partying every day.