World’s first 3D printed car change the automobile industry

<p>Automobiles are making progress by the day. With each variant becoming smarter and economical, automobiles are being invented keeping the environment into highest consideration. Technology has immensely progressed in the last few years and 3D printing has taken an upper hand everything. From prototyping at home to mass production ahead, printing 3D objects for use in your craft work to space crafts, a 3D printer in mass production is now a reality. To show the world that 3D printing is the future to everything ahead, Kevin Czinger, founder and CEO of a company called Divergent Microfactories (DM) (a startup) has managed to place a 3D printed car, ‘Blade’, in front of us. The Blade has 1/3 the emissions of an electric car and 1/50 the factory capital costs of other manufactured cars. Instead of 3D printing the whole vehicle, they print aluminum blocks and put them together—similar to Lego blocks. The car can be assembled later.</p><p>The Blade is definitely a supercar, which is capable of speeding from 0-60 MPH in a just 2.2 seconds. It weighs just 635 Kg, is powered by a 4-cylinder 700-horsepower bi-fuel internal combustion engine and uses using either gasoline or CNG as its fuel. The entire chassis of the car is made up of around 70 individual 3D printed aluminum nodes (sections), and it takes around 30 minutes to build the chassis. The chassis weighs just 28 Kg.</p><p><iframe src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/131471148" width="500" height="281" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen></iframe></p><p><span style="font-size: 13.0080003738403px; line-height: 1.538em;">More info: </span><a href="http://www.divergentmicrofactories.com/" style="font-size: 13.0080003738403px; line-height: 1.538em;">DM</a></p>