First 3D Printed Supercar

serf

Discover the new way to manufacturing in the 21st century.It's startling to see how much detail can be made with so little time and effort, You can see why  common manpower is a thing of the past.

                                            serf

    Conventional cars are wasteful in the way they're built and the way they're operated. A startup called Divergent Microfactories has developed a radical new way to build cars in distributed factories with ultra-lightweight construction.

 

            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCto6qSjIXw

chme

Just ran across one of these for sale.  All electric, heat and A/C, bluetooth radio, backup camera, headlights/ taillights, street legal with no plates and no license 35 mile range it is classed as a (wait for it)  MOBILITY SCOOTER.  

mohawk600

You guys buy and drive those............I will sit back and watch.

chme

If I got the red one, I could go cruise Walmart.  On the inside.  Replace all the cars with those, you could end drive-by shootings.  Recoil would knock that sucker over!

serf

   All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher (1788 – 1860)

notnow

The red one, since it has A/C, all it needs is wider tires and it becomes a golf cart.

He Dog

Italy, with lots of very old and narrow streets has lots of enclosed 1 and 2 seater scooters.  They are highly practical on narrow streets and require little parking space.  Since I live here, I am sticking to my Tundra.

chollagardens

chme posted;
If I got the red one, I could go cruise Walmart.

Make the checkout wider, add some air filters, one way aisles, and justify it for COVID and a whole new Wally world will open.

Tcatt

Oak Ridge National Labs, (Manhattan Project WWII), did pioneering work on large scale 3-D printing technology.

My son interned on the project while he was in engineering school.

Using a large scale printer developed on site, they produced a Shelby Cobra Clone for the Detroit Auto Show.

https://youtu.be/HXvIMRklWiM

 

 

mohawk600

There are also firms 3 D printing homes!!!!!!

Mr. Perfect

Additive manufacturing is a highly useful technology that, while revolutionary in many ways, is not necessarily the best means of manufacture for the majority of parts.