General Requirements

1.1 The OSE Car is expected to meet general OSE guidelines for GVCS tools, equipment, and vehicles.

Simplicity

2.1 A person with reasonable skills with access to an equipped workshop should be able to build the OSE car.
2.2 Fabrication and assembly should require less than 1000 hours of work.

3.1 Cost to build should be less than an inexpensive new car.
3.2 The intial goal is to build a car that costs less than $12,000 in parts and materials.

4.1 Meet legal requirements regulations to operate on public roads and highways.
4.2 Initial, U.S. regulations will be targeted. Later, other country regulations will be factored in.
4.3 Meet impact safety including a good frame, seat belts, bumpers, etc.
4.4 Meet operating requirements such as signal lights, head lights, running lights, brake lights, etc.
4.5 Meet established emission requirements - this is good for our planet, too.
4.6 Speed - must be capable of minimum road speeds for highway operation.
4.7 Reverse - pretty much a requirement to park it in a public place.

5.1 In general, the OSE Car should be inexpensive or effectively free to operate.
5.2 In the first prototype, a gasoline or diesel fuel will be targeted.
5.3 50 miles per gallon will be the target for the first gas/diesel prototype.
5.4 The car should be design in a manner that facilitates other kinds of fuels and power sources that may include:
- Gas such as propane, methane, producer gas, etc.
- Wood pellets that fire a boiler that drives a turbine or steam engine.
- Stored electrical energy that drives electric motors.
5.5 Car should have an initial driving range of 500 miles.

6.1 There is strong desire to use the existing PowerCube as a drive motor.
6.2 A custom vehicle PowerCube made be substituted based on OSE principles of modularity, repairability, etc.
6.3 The OSE Car should be comparable or lighter in overall weight than a compact car.
6.4 The size of the OSE Car should allow it to be parked in typical U.S. parking spaces.