OpenVCUOpenVCUThe OpenVCU project was born out of frustration and necessity during a custom EV conversion of a 1965 Chevrolet C10 pickup. While engineering the integration for a NetGain Hyper9 and an ev-TorqueBox, it became clear that the vehicle control landscape was holding builders back. The industry is currently fragmented between expensive, proprietary black-box controllers and highly bespoke Arduino sketches that require rewriting state machines from scratch for every new build.
Drawing on decades of industrial controls engineering and standardized logic programming, OpenVCU was created to bring order to the chaos. By strictly separating the Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) from the core logic, we are building a framework that scales.
OpenVCU is designed to bridge the gap between the weekend tinkerer and the professional conversion facility.
Getting the motor spinning safely is just phase one. The vision for OpenVCU extends to the entire vehicle ecosystem. Our development roadmap includes dedicated module libraries for Digital Dash Conversions.
Future releases will allow builders to easily drive custom gauge clusters, integrate modern touchscreen interfaces, and manage body controls (HVAC, lighting, and accessories) through the same unified architecture. Instead of buying a separate CAN-translator box for your instruments, your OpenVCU hardware will handle the data bridging natively.
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