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As a vehicle designed and built by an active user community ..

Open source (at least, from what I've read on their site) gives you not only the schematics, but the specs for the parts that were purchased and the design files for the parts that they had to have fabricated, as well as the source code for making it run.

This is in marked contrast to various techies around the web reverse-engineering the Leaf BMS data packets, or replacing the control boards on the Tesla drive system to use it in another vehicle.

I'd consider supporting this group if their design was simple enough to build and fit my needs. Sort of like a DIY car .. maybe?

It will be interesting at the very least.