Linux for Your Electric Car: Techies Create Open Source EVs (txchnologist)
[Posted April 10, 2012 by ris]
The
Tumanako
Project aims to provide open hardware and software to drive and
recharge electric vehicles. Author Morgen E. Peck
covers
the project and talks with developer Philip Court. "
The main offering of the Tumanako project is a drive package and inverter for a 200kW induction motor. This includes all of the software necessary to take a “go” command from a driver and the calculations for how much power to feed to the motor. Court says his code works but will not be fully open source — meaning there are still snippets of proprietary code — for another 6 months to a year."
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