Posted on 06/28/2015 4:11:37 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The automobile industry has been relatively stagnant for the past several decades. While new car designs are released annually, and computer technology has advanced by leaps and bounds, the manufacturing processes and the effects that these processes have on our environment have remain relatively unchanged. Over the past decade or so, 3D printing has shown some promise in the manufacturing of automobiles, yet it has not quite lived up to its potential, at least according to Kevin Czinger, founder and CEO of a company called Divergent Microfactories (DM).
Today, at the O’Reilly Solid Conference in San Francisco, Kevin Czinger is about to shock the world with a keynote presentation he will give titled, “Dematerializing Auto Manufacturing.”
“Divergent Microfactories is going to unveil a supercar that is built based on 3D printed parts,” Manny Vara of LMG PR tells 3DPrint.com. “It is very light and super fast — can you say faster acceleration than a McLaren P1, and 2x the power-to-weight ratio of a Bugatti Veyron? But the car itself is only part of the story. The company is actually trying to completely change how cars are made in order to hugely reduce the amount of materials, power, pollution and cost associated with making traditional cars.”(continued)
(Excerpt) Read more at 3dprint.com ...
The engine sounds quite amazing in itself.
And 0 to 60 in 2.2seconds. That is one fast puppy.
I’m not trying to rain on anyone parade here, but that chassis bears no relationship to the finished car. I don’t even think they are in the same universe.
Automan would be pleased.
I get it. Awesome.
It will be a smashup between the trad auto makers,
auto workers unions, (with their Washington lobbyists) and government overseers against the emergent entrapaneurs. Worthy of a movie, no doubt. All we all need is is freedom. Energy waste and global catastrophe is averted by individual freedom. Not the effete genius of haughty planners.
So-called “3D printing” is innovative and still developing, but I truly despise the misuse of the term, such as with this product (it is NOT a “3D printed car).
Interesting (I read as this the other day), but still...
LOL. Guess I shoulda just scrolled down, huh?
I’m going to create AMC again... a print out cars, like the Marlin or the Javelin.
Based on. Not actually 3D-printed. Still, 3D printing will of course continue to progress and find more and more uses in auto manufacturing and much else.
The tires would have to be averaging a coefficient of friction of about 1$frac14; over that time.
The tires would have to be averaging a coefficient of friction of about 1¼ over that time.
So amazing (4 cylinders and 700 horsepower) that I doubt it actually exists — or really meets that level.
I 3D print. This stikes me as more hype.
Let’s see the dyno results and not take the press release’s word for it.
There are “traditional” cars that do 0-60 in that elapsed time right now. Several of them.
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