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Car Produced With a 3D Printer

Posted by samzenpus on from the printing-some-wheels dept.

Lanxon writes "A prototype for an electric vehicle — code named Urbee — is the first to have its entire body built with a 3D printer, reports Wired. Stratasys and Winnipeg engineering group Kor Ecologic have partnered to create the electric/liquid fuel hybrid, which can deliver more than 200 miles per gallon on the motorway and 100 miles per gallon in the city."

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  1. why does the picture in the article look like by pezpunk · · Score: 5, Insightful

    why does the picture in the article look like a still from a low rez video of a photograph of a badly-photoshopped computer rendering?

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  2. Is the government going to ban these printers? by countertrolling · · Score: 3, Insightful

    As a threat to interstate commerce? Kinda like telling the farmers they can't grow their own animal feed? If you think that self publishing artists are a threat to the industry, wait until you have everybody self replicating everything they need.

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  3. Re:3D, eh? by Conspiracy_Of_Doves · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No. For that you would need a 4D printer.

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  4. Re:So it's just a body? by DigiShaman · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That not funny. That's a very prophetic. Such a scenario is the future! We live in a world where Intellectual property is worth more in man hours than raw materials themselves.

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