Originally shared by John Car
This is truly amazing. A 3D printed electric Cobra that will be at the Charlotte Makers faire in October
https://www.youtube.com/attribution_link?a=pgxBrdYeR5I&u=/watch?v%3DzFhySNBi-tE%26feature%3Dshare
Thought it was going to be garbage along the lines of here look at the steel frame with printed body panels. But seems like the chassis is actually printed they clearly built it along the same lines as one of the cobra kit cars.
It amazing with the Electric power train
As he said it’s years off. But I get (and many of us will) how they do moulds in days and that’s what’s great about it. Make a change to improve something it’s not a matter of we can’t change it for a year we haven’t recouped the cost of the mould. So improved parts can be made and possibly provided to current customers also. It’s kind of what I meant when someone said the taz5 uses printed parts and they should be moulded. Not sure about the us but here a single mould is the equavalent of $5000 US and a week later you find out that let’s say your fancy new extruder is junk. You can’t go back and implement the fixed part easily. And this is the 100 year old motor industry starting to wake up to that fact.