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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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Linux for Your Electric Car: Techies Create Open Source EVs (txchnologist)

Posted Apr 10, 2012 20:21 UTC (Tue) by tonyblackwell (guest, #43641) [Link] (1 responses)

Sounds fascinating, but the last blog entry is Nov 2010. Project still alive?

Linux for Your Electric Car: Techies Create Open Source EVs (txchnologist)

Posted Apr 10, 2012 21:21 UTC (Tue) by hamjudo (guest, #363) [Link]

The last SVN checkin is only 5 days old. Looks alive to me.

Linux for Your Electric Car: Techies Create Open Source EVs (txchnologist)

Posted Apr 11, 2012 14:40 UTC (Wed) by davi (guest, #18853) [Link] (1 responses)

Do you know if there are already electric cars which support the Tumanako software?

Linux for Your Electric Car: Techies Create Open Source EVs (txchnologist)

Posted Apr 11, 2012 21:35 UTC (Wed) by davi (guest, #18853) [Link]

OK. I will build my own electric car. It will be fun and cheaper :)

See http://www.linuxsa.org.au/meetings/2008-10/ev_linuxsa_oct...


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