Open Motors
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
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01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
Open Motors (formerly OSVehicle), based in Palo Alto, developed a modular open-source electric vehicle platform that enabled businesses and startups to design, prototype and build electric vehicles and transportation services. Its TABBY chassis was an industrializable, production-ready open-source platform shipped as a flatpack that could be assembled in under an hour, aimed at democratizing mobility with a target vehicle price below $10,000; the company later worked on EDIT, a self-driving white-label vehicle platform. It raised about $120,000 from Y Combinator and Plug and Play.
02 / FAILURE REASONS
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03 / EVENT HISTORY
Events in the structured record
- Founded
Open Motors (as OSVehicle) was founded in Palo Alto by Tin Hang Liu, Yuki Liu and Ampelio Macchi, building the open-source TABBY EV platform.
- Crowdfunding and new projects
The company planned an Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign for a low-speed TABBY variant, started the EDIT data-driven self-driving project, and unveiled the ASLAN EV pickup - built on its open, road-legal framework - at COP22 in Marrakech.
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
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05 / CAUSAL CHAIN / AFTERMATH
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