Posted on 09/14/2014 6:46:55 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The concept of Strati began just six months ago, before being brought to the showroom floor of the International Manufacturing Technology Show.
Attendees got a first-hand look at the body of the car being printed layer by layer over a 44-hour period. Then, the non-printable parts, like the engine, lights and glass windshield were added.
The top speed of the Strati is 40 miles per hour and a range of 120 miles on one charge.
Rogers says the initial retail cost will start at $18,000 and go upwards of $30,000. However, when it comes time for a change, many of the parts can be reused.
(Excerpt) Read more at whnt.com ...
Whole new take on kit cars.
It looks like a mashup of Speed Racer and a 60’s Meyers Manx dune buggy, made of old tires. So, it’s ugly. Top speed 40 mph so it’s slow. Price $18k to $30k so it’s more expensive than many fully functional cars available now that aren’t so slow and so ugly.
So, what’s the reason to want one of these? Is the price valid for a completely custom design, one off? That’s the only draw that I can see.
Congratulations - you’ve just invented the golf cart.....again.
I am telling you, when 3D printers start creating 3D printers, Skynet will become self-aware and that is is for we humans.
Is that "is" in the Clinton sense or in the jihadist sense? < / just kidding >
Another article here, too.
>>It looks like a mashup of Speed Racer and a 60’s Meyers Manx dune buggy, made of old tires. So, it’s ugly. Top speed 40 mph so it’s slow. Price $18k to $30k so it’s more expensive than many fully functional cars available now that aren’t so slow and so ugly.
So, what’s the reason to want one of these? Is the price valid for a completely custom design, one off? That’s the only draw that I can see.<<
It is like so many innovations — it isn’t that it does it well, it is that it does it AT ALL!!
Just like the printer that consist of just a print head (no printer needed), these are groundbreaking changes.
Just as the Internet came from Bitnet (sideways), when the only graphics were UUENCODE (yes, Rule 32 applied back then), it still established the start.
From a car, why not a stove? A refrigerator? A house? (which I hear is in the works).
I assure you the earliest artificial hearts were ugly as hell.
Limited thinking.
>>Is that “is” in the Clinton sense or in the jihadist sense? <<
We’re done so take your pick :)
It's a golf cart.
No, my thinking is firmly grounded in commercialization. You can ooh and ahh over possibilities all you want, but if there is no desirable product at an acceptable price point coming out the other end, it’s all for naught.
Good point! :)
I thought the Urbee was the world's first 3-D printed car?
Speaking of golf carts.
I happened to watch a few minutes of E F-1 racing or whatever it is today.
It ain’t racing unless there’s some internal combustion going on.
Try to print those on a printer!
Those cars are cool cool cool!
Post #18 is the wrong pic.
It’s another “First 3D Printed car”.
That’s okay.
I like that one better!
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