This week, we made some of the most valuable technical details of our conversion kits open source and launched a Wikipedia page for retrofit-relevant details about vehicle models.
Our open source philosophy
At the heart of Second Ride lies one mission:
Making the electrification of iconic light vehicles accessible to everyone – from the Simson to thousands of other models across Europe.
To ensure this succeeds, we have embraced an open-source mentality from the outset.
Your knowledge, ideas and creativity drive development faster than any small team could on its own.
Make MID50 your project. Experiment. Build. Develop further.
The Wikipedia of retrofitting
There are hundreds of brands and thousands of vehicle models out there, and they all have slightly different mechanical requirements for electrification. While MID50 is universal in itself, model-specific adapter kits are needed to connect the drive and battery.
As a small team, aspiring to develop conversion kits for all these vehicles would be about as realistic as writing a complete encyclopaedia covering all the knowledge in the world on your own.
It would take us more than a decade to procure all these vehicles, measure them and run through prototype iterations of these adapter kits. Together as a community, however, we could parallelise and democratise these processes.
To enable this ‘Wikipedia of retrofits’ to be created, we are now publishing a new section in our Docs:
The Second Ride vehicle database.
The first brands have already been created:
Honda, Jawa, Kreidler, Motobecane/MBK, MZ, Peugeot, Piaggio, Puch, Simson, Tomos, Yamaha, Zündapp and many more to follow.
