PH Renault are allowing developers to customise the Twizy using a new open-source platform

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The new vehicle POM, based on Renault's popular Twizy, will be available to start-ups, independent laboratories, private customers and researchers, allowing them to customise the software and driving experience. Renault have partnered with OSVehicle, who provide on-demand design and engineering service, to develop this open source platform.

OSVehicle's modular open source car platform brings together entrepreneurs, developers, designers, and engineers who could potentially develop multiple high performance, economical electric vehicles to suit the needs of a range of market demographics. “We are very excited to welcome a great Auto OEM like Renault in our open ecosystem”, said Tin Hang & Yuki Liu, founders of OSVehicle

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"We are sure that our community will benefit and provide value to the automotive industry, contributing with new mobility solutions and solving specific needs with a wider range of connected car and self driving technologies.

We are very excited to welcome a great Auto OEM like Renault in our open ecosystem Tin Hang & Yuki Liu, founders of OSVehicle

"Sharing common hardware platforms to everyone is a new co-creative and horizontal approach that can disrupt this industry lowering significantly costs and time-to-market.” Renault are also collaborating with ARM, a leader in microprocessor Intellectual Property, on the new open-source vehicle platform. Thier collaboration with ARM will open up the Twizy software and hardware architecture to allow new features, as ARM provide processor design technology powering more than 80 percent of mobile computing devices.

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