Elvis’ BMW Restored with AM
Elvis has a new biopic movie by Bas Luhrmann out this week. So that’s an excuse to talk about the story about how Elvis’ car was restored to its former glory thanks to 3D printing. When ...
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Automotive
The automotive industry was amongst the earliest adopters of 3D printing technology. It's now possible to print high quality end user products like car interior parts.
AM Saves GM From Parts Shortage Pickle
Last minute design changes are a royal pain in the butt, especially when the product release is looming on the horizon. This is why engineers have a concept known as a “design freeze”. It ...
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AM Car Wins Innovation Award at Shell Eco-marathon
Oh, how times change! If you had tried to make a small plastic electric vehicle 35 years ago, you would have been pilloried and mocked relentlessly. Just ask home computer pioneer Sir ...
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Ford Releases FITS CAD Files to Accessorize Maverick
Companies offering additive manufacturing files of their wares for customers to print is nothing new. Most of these digital items do however tend to be very niche products, designed for ...
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3D Printed Motors Coming Soon
Electric motors are becoming very popular in the automotive world, with companies all around the globe vying for a slice of the EV pie. And with such demand, comes innovation. Motors ...
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Audi 3D Prints their Packaging Trash into New Parts
German automaker Audi has revealed their new in-house upcycling program that takes their own packaging materials and 3D prints them into assembly aids for use on the production line. No ...
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Polish Race Team Gets Lightweight AM Upgrades
A kart racing team in Poland has made use of additive manufacturing to further reduce the weight of their already lean PMT-03 racing machine. The PRz Racing Team, based in Rzeszów, ...
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Rodin Cars 3D Prints Titanium Hydraulically-Controlled Sequential Gearbox
When you’re a startup supercar manufacturer nestled in the remote hills of New Zealand, relying on old tricks is no way to pull ahead of the pack. That’s why Rodin Cars is leaning heavily...
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Ford and HP Recycle 3D Printing Waste Into Molded Car Parts
End of life waste management of automotive materials is a huge task, with the auto vehicle recycling industry is the 16th largest sector in the United States, contributing $25 billion USD ...
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Aston Martin Develops 3D Printed Active Suspension System
While Porsche is printing pistons and Bugatti prints half a car, Aston Martin tinkers in their own luxurious garage. The premier automobile brand from Britain joins those and other ...
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1,825 Horsepower Bugatti Bolide is Packed with 3D Printed Parts
While our loyal readers are fully aware of the near ubiquitous adoption of AM throughout the automotive manufacturing industry, the shift has gone mostly unnoticed by car and truck buyers. ...
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Porsche Demos 3D Printing for Electric Vehicles
You’d be forgiven for thinking that Porsche are new to the electric vehicle game. In fact, the first cars designed by Ferdinand Porsche himself actually had electric drives, albeit for a ...
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Bridgestone 3D Prints Tire Molds to Improve Traction
McLaren is 3D printing Titanium wheels and Carbon Performance is printing Aluminum brake calipers, so what about tires? It turns out that they’re at Bridgestone, and they’re making winter ...
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3D Print Your Own Car Parts
Before the advent of large scale 3D printers, if you wanted to mod your car with bodykits, you would have to shell out for a molded aftermarket part, and probably have to do some extra ...
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BMW 3D Printing Superbike Components at the Track
German automaker BMW is very big on additive manufacturing, especially when it comes to their research and development, having recently opened the doors to their Additive Manufacturing ...
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DOE Funds Automotive Industry Printing for Sensors and Fault Detection
University of North Texas has just received a couple of Department of Energy (DOE) grants to push forward their ongoing research into 3D printed automotive structures. The first grant covers ...
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Additive Drives Gets 1.5 Million Dollars Seed Funding for AM Motor Components
Manufacturing coil windings for motors (and other components) is fantastically labour intensive, requiring many steps for converting the raw material into the end-use product. First you ...
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SEAT Gets its own 3D Printing Centre
Automaker SEAT has this week announced the launch of their own 3D Printing LAB. The lab is located in the SEAT Prototype Development Centre at their main plant in Martorell in Barcelona, ...
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Classic Car Carburetor Replica by Tecron & Markforged
Markforged has released a report highlighting a whole bunch of case studies from users of their range of machines, both carbon composite and indirect metal printing. Let’s take a look at an ...
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Porsche Test Proves 3D Printed Pistons are Superior
Porsche is a performance car manufacturer that has a lofty reputation to maintain, with nearly 90 years of German engineering steadily improving upon itself. If Porsche adopts a ...
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