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Here is another vehicle using the 3D Printing Technology Process - Dave :)

A revolutionary electric car made using a 3D printer has been unveiled and is due to start selling next year in Asia and Europe. The two-seater, called LSEV, takes just three days to make, according to the car's manufacturer. Now the car maker is assembling a production line for the sleek vehicle which is expected to hit the market in April 2019 at a price of €8,500 (£7,525).
LSEV is 1.5m (4.9ft) high, 2.5m (8.3ft) long and 1.3m (4.3ft) wide - about the size of a Smart car. With a weight of 450kg (992 pounds), it has a top speed of 70kmh (43 mph) and can travel 150km (93 miles) once fully charged.
The car is the brainchild of XEV Limited, a start-up firm from Hong Kong which has a design centre in Italy and production bases in China.The majority of the car was 3D-printed with three types of material: enhanced nylon, polylactic acid - a common 3D printing filament - and rubber-like TPU. All metal parts of the car, such as the chassis and the engine, use the traditional production methods.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... 7-500.html
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Reading the article the car does not take 3 days to make, it's the 3d printed stuff that takes three days of total printing time though I would imagine if this project does actually get off the ground they will have multiple 3d printers for concurrent manufacture. The underframe / chassis is still a conventional design and as the 3d printed A surfaces will not contribute anything to the structure of the car for crash, ride and handling purposes the metallic crash structure will need to be beefed up to suit, probably means the car won't be much (if at all) lighter than a conventionally made steel or aluminium vehicle of the same size and spec...
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You can make any product in any location. A US tech firm is using 3D printing to mass produce metal parts more quickly than ever before, interesting advances in technology - Dave 😉

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-47869161
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It looks like some progress is being made with 3D Printing - Dave 😉
“British engineers have developed a working electric vehicle from recycled 3D printed materials - and it can reach speeds of up to 45 miles per hour. It is battery-powered and called the Chameleon buggy, which weighs 150kg (23 stone), produces no emissions and is about a third the size of an average car - but only seats one. Swindon-based engineering firm Scaled built the vehicle, the first of its kind in Europe, in just three months over lockdown for £10,000.”

Project Chameleon 3D printed EV from Scaled » 3dpbm : https://www.3dprintingmedia.network/sca ... rinted-ev/

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British engineers unveil first working 3D-printed electric vehicle : https://mol.im/a/8953575
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