Local Motors
Local Motors was an American vehicle manufacturer founded in 2007 by John "Jay" Rogers Jr. that built vehicles through open co-creation and distributed "microfactories" rather than conventional mass production. Its community designed and the company produced the Rally Fighter off-road car from its first Chandler, Arizona microfactory, the Strati — the first car to be 3D-printed live, in 44 hours at IMTS 2014 — and, from 2016, Olli, a 3D-printed electric autonomous shuttle whose conversational passenger interface ran on IBM Watson and which was piloted at National Harbor, Maryland and other campus and transit sites. The company operated microfactories in Chandler, Knoxville and National Harbor and spun its crowdsourcing community out as Launch Forth. Local Motors ceased operations in January 2022 after fifteen years, having failed to raise further capital, and its intellectual-property portfolio was acquired by drone manufacturer RapidFlight of Manassas, Virginia in July 2023. Local Motors never operated a public developer program: the archive of localmotors.com holds an internal django-tastypie JSON API under /api/v1/ that served the co-creation community website, but no developer portal, API reference, SDK, or machine-readable specification was ever published, and its GitHub organization has zero public repositories. The domain is no longer the company's — it now answers HTTP 301 on every path to a third-party affiliate article — so there is no live API surface to catalog. This profile is retained as a historical record.
Index entry only — little beyond a description and a link, and nothing machine-readable enough for an agent to act on without a human reading the site first.
Local Motors is tracked in the API Evangelist network. This page is the human-readable profile that sits on top of the machine-readable index we maintain at apis.io.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Local Motors scores 5.3/100 (minimal), with a separate agent-readiness read of 0/100 (human only). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Why this profile is thin
Local Motors shut down in January 2022 and its IP was sold to RapidFlight in July 2023; localmotors.com is no longer the company's — it answers HTTP 301 on every path, including /openapi.json and every /.well-known/ path, to a third-party affiliate article on housegrail.com/homegrail.com — every developer subdomain is NXDOMAIN, its GitHub organization has zero public repositories, and the Internet Archive records no developer portal or machine-readable spec at any point in the domain's history.
This is an honest zero, not a gap in our research. Local Motors does not appear to expose an API, so there is nothing here for us to index and nothing for them to fix.
What we probed
https://localmotors.com/→ HTTP 301https://localmotors.com/openapi.json→ HTTP 301https://localmotors.com/llms.txt→ HTTP 301https://localmotors.com/.well-known/agent-card.json→ HTTP 301https://api.github.com/orgs/localmotors→ HTTP 200https://forgeglobal.com/local-motors_stock/→ HTTP 403
Kin Score
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance. Every facet and dimension name is a link: it opens that measurement's page on APIs.io, where the rating runs across the whole catalog — the exact checks that feed it, how every profiled provider distributes on it, and who is at the top of it.
Kin Score
How this is scored →scored 2026-09-01 · rubric v0.18.0
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Resources
Every other property we hold for Local Motors — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
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SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Local Motors is in the network as a tracked entity. We haven't yet indexed a public API surface for it — when one is published, the artifacts, score, and agent-readiness read will appear here automatically. The source repository is where that profile is built.
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This is an independent, third-party profile of Local Motors, published by API Evangelist. We do not operate, host, resell, or support these APIs, and we are not affiliated with or endorsed by the company unless stated above. Everything here is built from publicly available information — the company's own site, developer portal, documentation, public repositories, and the specifications it publishes for public use. Nothing is obtained by breaching a system, defeating an access control, or using credentials.
The Kin Score and Agent Readiness rating are independently calculated assessments of a company's public API artifacts, scored against a published rubric. They are not certifications, endorsements, security assessments, or audits.
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