Local Motors XC2V

Local Motors XC2V Courtesy Local Motors

Local Motors worked with the Pentagon’s R&D agency to create specs for a new combat-support vehicle—360-degree-visibility from the cockpit, up to five-passenger capacity, less than 6,000 pounds fully loaded—and then crowdsourced the design in a competition and built a working version of the winning design in just four months. If the XC2V survives validation testing by the Army’s Asymmetric Warfare Group, it may eventually end up in combat, moving supplies to the front lines and carrying wounded soldiers back to the base.