“Renault has developed an open-source automotive platform for a compact and lightweight electric vehicle, based on its existing Twizy EV, which could enable those wanting to build their own electric vehicle company to jumpstart the process. In partnership with OSVehicle and ARM, Groupe Renault will release its POM platform to the world as the “first open-source mass market vehicle platform,” which will allow third parties to both copy and modify the existing hardware and software to create their own version of a totally customizable EV. Although OSVehicle already has an open-source vehicle platform available - the TABBY EVO - which is the basis of the Busy Bee (the first open-source road-legal city car built on it), this new partnership marks the first time a big automaker is open-sourcing its EV platform, and could be the start of a whole new breed of electric vehicle innovation. A platform isn’t a finished vehicle, and isn’t road-legal on its own, but is rather the core systems around which a complete vehicle is built.”