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World’s first 3D printed car

SEP 26, 2011
Physics Today
Daily Mail : Three-dimensional printing has taken off in recent years, with the creation of such diverse objects as flutes and human tissue and organs . Now a Canadian company called KOR EcoLogic has designed and printed its first automobile. The Urbee is “built” from layer upon layer of an ultrathin composite material that is slowly fused into a solid. It has three wheels, two seats, and a hybrid gas/electric engine. The company claims the car is among the greenest ever made: It uses one-eighth the energy of a similar-sized vehicle and can get 200 miles to the gallon on the highway. It will be some time, however, before the Urbee can be mass produced and available to consumers.
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