Engineering:Wikispeed
Wikispeed is an automotive startup with a modular design car. Wikispeed competed in the Progressive Automotive X Prize competition in 2010 and won the tenth place in the mainstream class, which had a hundred other cars competing, often from big companies and universities.[1][2][3][4] The car debuted at the North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) in Detroit, Michigan in January 2011.[5][6]
Wikispeed was founded by Joe Justice and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington. In 2011, Justice gave a TEDx talk explaining the management style implemented by the Wikispeed team.[7]
In May of 2012, Joe Justice launched an Indiegogo campaign to crowdfund further refinement of their prototype design into a market-ready kit car. Justice did not seek development funding from "traditional venture capital" in an effort to avoid forcing the Wikispeed project "into commercial short-term money-making".[4] The campaign sought roughly $50,000 over a period of two months.[4] The campaign failed.
Wikispeed aims to apply scrum development techniques borrowed from the software development industry. They use open source tools and lean management methods to improve their productivity.[8]
On January 6, 2015, Wikispeed announced that they have been unable to create a working engine module since their second model and called on the community for help. On February 15, 2015, Wikispeed announced an update that they have produced another working engine module.[9]
See also
- Open-source car
- Electric vehicle
- Open hardware
References
- ↑ "Wikispeed". Progressive Auto Xprize. http://www.progressiveautoxprize.org/teams/wikispeed. Retrieved August 26, 2012.
- ↑ Sammicheli, Paolo (2018-07-12). "Scrum for Hardware". https://leanpub.com/Scrum-for-Hardware/read_sample. Retrieved January 9, 2020.
- ↑ Blanco, Sebastian (2010-05-10). "Automotive X-Prize: Wikispeed Team Collaborates, Struggles with SGT01 Modular Car". green.autoblog.com. http://green.autoblog.com/2010/05/10/automotive-x-prize-wikispeed-team-collaborates-struggles-with/. Retrieved August 26, 2012.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Denning, Steve. "Wikispeed: How A 100 mpg Car Was Developed In 3 Months" (in en). https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2012/05/10/wikispeed-how-a-100-mpg-car-was-developed-in-3-months/.
- ↑ "2011 NAIAS: Wikispeed SGT01". autoevolution. 11 January 2011. http://www.autoevolution.com/news/2011-naias-wikispeed-sgt01-live-photos-29504.html. Retrieved August 26, 2012.
- ↑ Stenquist, Paul (January 11, 2011). "Wikispeed SGT01 Awaits an Angel". The New York Times. http://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/11/wikispeed-sgt01-awaits-an-angel/. Retrieved August 26, 2012.
- ↑ "TEDxRainier - Joe Justice - WikiSpeed". December 26, 2011. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8jdx-lf2Dw.
- ↑ "From Henry Ford to Joe Justice : WikiSpeed, Manufacturing in the Age of Open Collaboration". 2012-10-25. http://ouishare.net/2012/10/wikispeed-agile-manufacturing/.
- ↑ "Wikispeed Needs You!". http://wikispeed.org/2015/01/wikispeed-needs/.
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