Great news for Riversimple!
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/5a85a828-73eb-11df-87f5-00144feabdc0.html
(apologies if you are not registered with ft.com - it's free, and I just decided to finally register...)
I cannot remember the current status of the car, but I believe that they are making efforts to open source as much as possible of the associated design artefacts via the 40 Fires Foundation.
Cheers,
Andrew