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... read more »
Automotive
3D printing in the automotive industry.
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... read more »
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... read more »
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... read more »
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... read more »
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... read more »
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... read more »
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... read more »
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... read more »
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... read more »
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... read more »
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... read more »
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... read more »
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... read more »
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... read more »
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... read more »
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... read more »
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... read more »
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... read more »
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... read more »