Joe Justice knew from a young age that he wanted to get involved in technology and change the world (he even found a childhood diary entry to prove it!). Now he and his team at Wikispeed are taking on some of the biggest challenges in the automotive industry and playing by their own rules, using… Read More…
Our guest on the latest GeekWire radio show and podcast was Joe Justice of Wikispeed, a project that’s aiming to disrupt the auto industry with a 100 mile per gallon car. Wikispeed is taking a very unconventional approach to engineering and development of these cars. They utilize lean manufacturing methods, a movement that has been popular… Read More…
We’ve got our eyes on the road ahead this week on the GeekWire radio show and podcast. Our guest in the studio is Joe Justice, a leader of Wikispeed, a project applying the principles of agile software development to auto manufacturing. The project is developing 100 MPG vehicles using lightweight modular components, rapid prototyping and… Read More…
We’ve been tracking lots of creative projects using crowdsourced funding models, but this one puts a new spin on things. Wikispeed, an open-source project developing a 100 mile-per-gallon vehicle, announced this morning that it’s aiming to raise $52,500 over the next two months to take its modular vehicles from prototype to production. The initiative, led… Read More…
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