Quite a few car brands have already tried their hand at making cars with 3D printers, but no manufacturer has yet printed a supercar. San Francisco startup Divergent Microfactories has now signed the first super sports car, and the first super sports car made with a 3D printer is called Blade.
Like most Silicon Valley companies, it is Divergent Microfactories from San Francisco cut the umbilical cord with the traditional or conventional and approached the production of a super sports car in an unusual way. With help additive manufacturing or homemade 3D printing. Its parts do not come from classic production facilities, but the chassis, body and most of the rest were "made" by a 3D printer.
Under the hood of the first ever super sports car made with this kind of technology, there are incredible things hiding 700 horses, and it can accelerate from a standstill to 100 km/h after all 2.2 seconds. Although this kind of data "steals the show", it actually deserves the most admiration chassis. It is made from printed aluminum and carbon fiber and has a very special "Lego" structure (see video) that weighs everything 46 kilograms, which is only a tenth of the weight of a classic frame. Nevertheless, it does not lack strength.
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Divergent Microfactories doesn't want to keep the technology to themselves. After it will offer a limited series of its own 635 kilograms heavy vehicles, which will be powered by either gasoline or gas, will share its knowledge with other car brands so that this type of production could become "series". With this production method, it would drop drastically energy consumption and pollution levels in the process of creating steel horses, which, of course, are already "green" in most brands, but production is still far from that.
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