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The %%(color:darkred;)40%% %%(color:red;) Fires %% %%(color:orange;) Foundation %% takes an open source approach to developing energy-efficient technology

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##The first project is an open source hydrogen fuel cell electric car

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40 Fires is hosting the development of the [Riversimple

http://www.riversimple.com] hydrogen fuel cell powered network electric car.

The long term aim is to make as much of the car open source as possible, consistent with having the best and most efficient car. Parts such as the fuel cell, the motors and the tyres are made by other manfacturers and are proprietary to them, but most mechanical hardware, electronic hardware and software will be made available. %%

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##Areas of the Wiki We are currently working on specific aspects of the project. If you want to help us, follow the links on the left or below!

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##%%(text-decoration:underline;)Technical Designs%%
Take a look at our current suspension design, can you improve it?\

[Suspension Design

Suspension design]

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We are working towards a complete licensing strategy for the car. You will find notes on licensing and forum discussions __[here	notes on licensing April 2010]__\
and additional notes [here	further license notes - 27 April]\

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Join our discussions in many different areas of design, engineering and business. Please see either:

[General Discussion Forums|40 Fires General Discussion Forum]

[Technical Design Forums|Hyrban technical design forums]

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[Photo Gallery|Gallery]

[Video Gallery|Video gallery]

[Articles and Relevant Information|Articles]
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##%%(text-decoration:underline;)The Hyrban%%

[The project|The Hyrban]

[CAD Models|Hyrban CAD models]%%%%

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15/07/2010
An interesting definition of open source hardware. Nothing revolutionary, but still helpful. See [http://freedomdefined.org/OSHW]

13/07/2010
Honda has presented a “home hydrogen station”. Could this be the future of motoring? [Here is the Autoblog Green article|http://green.autoblog.com/2010/07/06/video-la-times-tries-out-the-latest-honda-home-hydrogen-station/]

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13/07/2010
The city of Hamburg has been running hydrogen buses for several years. They will be introducing new “Hydrogen Hybrid” buses soon. [Here is a good video on CNN|http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/tech/2010/06/29/pkg.quest.hydrogen.bus.cnn]

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29/06/2010
Latest post to the 40 Fires community. See [Mailing list - 29 June 2010|Mailing list - 29 June 2010]

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22/06/2010
New blog entry - follow this [link|40fires blog]

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11/06/2010
Riversimple in the news, as it announces a partnership with Leicester City Council, in the east midlands region of England, to pilot its hydrogen car in 2012. Follow [this link|http://www.riversimple.com/LatestNews.aspx] to find links to a number of news stories reporting on the story.

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06/06/2010
What’s it like to live with an electric car? Interesting story on the BBC. Follow this [link|http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/10138911.stm]

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04/06/2010
Having some interesting discussions with Dassault Systemes, creaters of CATIA, the leading CAD programme and other development tools. Will report further soon.

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