Remember, that huge beige abrupt thing in the corner, you papers for to buy and never properly? We bet you never looked at it and thought, "I could a car come from that make one day".
Jim KOR have. He is the project leader of Urbee - the spherical, in the images - which was presented on the TEDxWinnipeg Technology Conference, Canada. And, as with electric motors and a small ethanol engine driven (combine back 200 mpg), the body parts by using a special 3D to create the printer. You send a file and a very complicated is it three dimensional beautiful.
Apart from the exciting futuristic Tech is another reason this is good news. Because while the pressure are currently working out of Minneapolis-based Stratasys is carried out, the Urbee theory partly everywhere with a 3D printer and an Internet connection could be established. This would cut out Emissionsy - and expensive - shipping and transportation. They would more fuel used in the noble quest to go and have fun.
Currently only the composite panels are printed, and Jim told the BBC that he hopes that other parts so in the future be created:
"This process could revolutionize how we do things." "It has changed my way of thinking about production certainly"
Under this inkjet shell is a rather traditional stainless steel housing with low resistance tyres. The baby of a pot makes 8bhp motor and electric drive, supplemented by a number of optional solar panels on the roof. Better suited to California as Chipping Norton, then.
Estimated prices range from $10,000 (£ 6,500) up to $50,000 (£ 33,000) depending on whether the Urbee can achieve mass production.
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