Can you imagine a 3D printed car on the road?!
A joint venture between the Chinese Polymaker company and the Italian-based manufacturer X Electrical Vehicle are in the process of making a 3D car.
The car is a Smart-sized model called the LSEV that’s made almost entirely using 3D-printing technology.
A few components of the car still have to be made by conventional methods, such as the chassis, the windows and the tires, but the vast majority of the car is made by 3D printing.
Although it would probably be easier, quicker and cheaper at the moment to use conventional production methods, the real point of 3D printing is that it dramatically reduces the amount of waste material produced during the production process. This has led the boss of Polymaker, Xiaofan Luo, to predict that the project will “inspire more [car] companies to adopt 3D printing.”
In this particular case the number of plastic parts was just 57, compared to the 2,000 it would have taken if conventional manufacturing methods were used.
It took just three days to produce the prototype, XEV intends to build around 500 of them each year.
They are will probably sell for around $20,000.
39 Responses
That is pretty ? cool i wish i could buy one but i cant
Dont have the right amount of money on me right now
But could i test it out it sounds fun
Cool
amazing people
Won’t it fall apart?
That is so cool I can’t wait for them to come to New Zealand
I Want That Car
cool car
Awesome I want one ? ? ? ? ?
That so cool and the car is pretty cute!!
WOW awesome car i wish i had a car like that!
Good price for an eco-car. Also these will be very popuar and eventually get rally fast like Mclaren P1s.
OK that will be expensive
Cool 3D car
AWESOME!!!
cool. 🙂
What about the saftey???
Won’t the car be weak???
whoa cool man when do theystart getting sold
Nope, it wont fall apart because they welded the pieces together…
it look cool
What will it run on?
AMAZING NO MOE CAR WASTE!
Cool how did they do that?
hopefully its electric, or it will be short-lived
I like the sound of the future eco friendly rules
their cars are going to get very fast
i think that this is super cool and i think that it would have taken a long time make it
This is so exciting but the thing is, will they come to New Zealand?
It good to see electric cars on the road
ripoff it would probly just make it easier to get hurt
it is so cool that I want to drive it now
but how did they do that?
good price
can’t wait to try it out! sounds epic but not old enough:(
what would happen if u crashed???
Cool, but how safe is it?
Cool?
I really want that car right now
i love cars what will the name be
cool hahahahahahha i want one