OSVehicle

OSVehicle Inc. is a US based company producing and promoting Open Source Vehicle ideas and projects. With Italian R&D and engineers, it operates worldwide. The first OSVehicle product is "TABBY EVO"_ a universal chassis for L6e, L7e and M1 electric vehicles. Tired of an aging industry, not sustainable, slow, with little innovation, too complicated and closed, we decided to bring a new vision to the transportation industry. Francisco Liu and his company Italchina worked for over 30 years in this sector: from cars and motorcycles to trains, with brands such as Giugiaro and the Cagiva Group. Tin Hang Liu, Franciscoês son, was new to the industry and worked with his father for 8 years on an electric vehicle project in collaboration with Giugiaro Design. The first milestone was set back in 2008 when, in Silicon Valley, Tin met some pioneers of OSHW (Open Source Hardware) and thought about a way to merge the two worlds. He saw the fast growth of startups as an opportunity and came up with a question: –how can we enable serial entrepreneurs in the field of electric vehicles?” An internal evangelization began. The idea was to provide an open framework as a chassis to build vehicles. It was tough to introduce this concept in a strictly traditional industry, but as the first designs were developed and prototypes created, the vision became clear also to the most conservative engineers. In 2012 Tin thought about the name –OS Car” but believed it was going to pose too many limits. The concept should be extended to different categories of vehicles, like two and three-wheelers, creating a true open ecosystem. This led to –OSVehicle” and the domain name was registered. OSVehicleês mission is to democratize mobility by enabling businesses and startups to design, prototype, and build custom electric vehicles and transportation services.