{"id":32378,"date":"2025-11-24T12:17:33","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T11:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/second-ride.de\/open-source-open-community\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T12:22:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T11:22:11","slug":"open-source-open-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/second-ride.de\/en\/open-source-open-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Source. Open Community."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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. <\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:23px\"><strong>Our open source philosophy<\/strong><\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the heart of Second Ride lies one mission:<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Making the electrification of iconic light vehicles accessible to everyone \u2013 from the Simson to thousands of other models across Europe.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To ensure this succeeds, we have embraced an open-source mentality from the outset.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Your knowledge, ideas and creativity drive development faster than any small team could on its own.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Make MID50 your project. Experiment. Build. Develop further.   <\/p><div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\"><div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.second-ride.de\/for-developers\/\">About our open source philosophy<\/a><\/div><\/div><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:23px\"><strong>The Wikipedia of retrofitting<\/strong><\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"isPasted\">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. <\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"isPasted\">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.  <\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To enable this \u2018Wikipedia of retrofits\u2019 to be created, we are now publishing a new section in our Docs:<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The Second Ride vehicle database.<\/strong><\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The first brands have already been created:<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Honda, Jawa, Kreidler, Motobecane\/MBK, MZ, Peugeot, Piaggio, Puch, Simson, Tomos, Yamaha, Z\u00fcndapp and many more to follow.<\/p><div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\"><div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.second-ride.de\/for-developers\/vehicle-database\/\">To our vehicle database<\/a><\/div><\/div><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. 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