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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.

1,825 Horsepower Bugatti Bolide is Packed with 3D Printed Parts

January 27, 2021 Leave a Comment

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

January 19, 2021 Leave a Comment

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

December 24, 2020 Leave a Comment

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

November 27, 2020 Leave a Comment

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

November 4, 2020 Leave a Comment

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

October 27, 2020 Leave a Comment

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

October 22, 2020 1 Comment

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

July 31, 2020 1 Comment

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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3D Printing for Emergency and Police Vehicles

July 30, 2020 Leave a Comment

3D Printing for Emergency and Police Vehicles

In this week’s Customer Spotlight, we hear from emergency and police vehicles upfitter, R&D engineer, and 3D Universe customer Ian Gerstein. He uses an Ultimaker 2 Extended+ to make 3d ...

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Classic Car Carburetor Replica by Tecron & Markforged

July 24, 2020 Leave a Comment

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

July 18, 2020 3 Comments

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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McLaren 720S Customized with 3D Printed Aero Kit

June 18, 2020 Leave a Comment

McLaren 720S Customized with 3D Printed Aero Kit

1016 Industries, in partnership with Abushi, is 3D printing an extensive custom body kit for the McLaren 720S Spider supercar. The performance-focused kit design company out of Miami is ...

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3D Printed Working Model of an F1 Gearbox

June 15, 2020 Leave a Comment

3D Printed Working Model of an F1 Gearbox

We recently explored how Formula 1 has embraced 3D printing to fabricate car parts, test prototypes, and even guide regulatory decisions. Suffice to say, F1 and AM are now tightly ...

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3D Printing and Formula 1

June 11, 2020 Leave a Comment

3D Printing and Formula 1

Formula 1 is the highest class of auto racing sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), meaning F1 cars are the fastest road-course race cars in the world, capable ...

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The Mysterious 3D Printed Part in the Tesla Model Y

May 20, 2020 Leave a Comment

The Mysterious 3D Printed Part in the Tesla Model Y

Just recently on a teardown video of a Tesla Model Y, a manufacturing engineering consultancy firm made a strange discovery. The firm, Michigan-based company Munro & Associates, ...

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How 3D Printing Is Changing Auto Manufacturing

January 2, 2020 3 Comments

How 3D Printing Is Changing Auto Manufacturing

The automobile has changed quite a bit since Karl Benz invented the motorcar in 1886 and a great majority of those changes are attributable to technological advancements in manufacturing....

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Testing A Lamborghini With 3D Printed PETG Intake Stack Prototypes

December 11, 2019 Leave a Comment

Testing A Lamborghini With 3D Printed PETG Intake Stack Prototypes

The folks over at Driftworks have been modifying and testing a Lamborghini Murcielago as part of an ongoing Youtube series. The owner, Phil Morrison, fully commits to customizing the Italian ...

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Combining AM Technologies For Ultra-Light Automotive Seating

December 4, 2019 Leave a Comment

Combining AM Technologies For Ultra-Light Automotive Seating

Weight reduction is one of the many drivers pushing the widespread adoption of additive manufacturing technologies in the automotive manufacturing industry. For the 'ultra-lightweight seat ...

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Case Study: Exco Engineering Uses Metal AM For Automotive Die Cast Tooling

November 18, 2019 Leave a Comment

Case Study: Exco Engineering Uses Metal AM For Automotive Die Cast Tooling

As we’ve previously reported, the automotive sector is pushing the frontier of metal 3D printing by fabricating prototypes, production jigs and fixtures, and end-use parts for automobiles ...

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HRE Develops 3D Printed Titanium Wheels For McLaren P1

October 28, 2019 Leave a Comment

HRE Develops 3D Printed Titanium Wheels For McLaren P1

With the rise of 3D printing in all sorts of automotive manufacturing, the technology is continuously offering new possibilities, from tail lights to breaks, and now wheels. Renowned sports ...

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