Automobile manufacturing solutions firm Divergent Microfactories has introduced 3D printing for making vehicles by cutting down material costs and pollution, as exemplified in its newly-launched Blade car.
Riding high on its 3D-printed aluminum joint, called Node, the company has made an arrangement in the system through which carbon fiber tubing could be integrated to form the chassis of the vehicle.
This is said to reduce costs, time as well as space as the actual amount of 3D printing required to make the chassis just take minutes to assemble.
Touted to be the first-of-its-kind in terms of 3D-printed 'supercar', the prototype Blade is armed with 700HP twin-fuel engine run on compressed natural gas or gasoline. Capable of zooming from 0 to 60km/h in two seconds, it weighs around 1,400 pounds.
Divergent Microfactories CEO Kevin Czinger said: "Society has made great strides in its awareness and adoption of cleaner and greener cars. The problem is that while these cars do now exist, the actual manufacturing of them is anything but environmentally friendly.
"At Divergent Microfactories, we've found a way to make automobiles that holds the promise of radically reducing the resource use and pollution generated by manufacturing. It also holds the promise of making large-scale car manufacturing affordable for small teams of innovators."
Promising fuel economy and lesser wear on the road, the company claimed that the chassis made out of Node results in 90% decrease in weight as against traditional vehicles.
