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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. Re:So it's just a body? by Pojut · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Don't discount it. Once the technology improves, this could be a way of making less expensive, much stronger bodies for vehicles. You could then put whatever engine/suspension you wanted under them.

    It could provide the opposite approach taken by the Trexa EV.

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