ApocaDocs: First electric road car body produced with a 3D printer

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Posted Tue Nov 2 2010: from Wired.co.uk:


	First electric road car body produced with a 3D printer http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1288736583 A prototype for an electric vehicle -- code named Urbee -- is the first to have its entire body built with a 3D printer. Stratasys and Winnipeg engineering group Kor Ecologic have partnered to create the electric/liquid fuel hybrid, which can deliver more than 200 miles per gallon on the motorway and 100 miles per gallon in the city. The two-passenger hybrid aims to be fuel efficient, easy to repair, safe to drive and inexpensive to own.... "Other hybrids on the road today were developed by applying 'green' standards to traditional vehicle formats," says Jim Kor, president and chief technology officer, Kor Ecologic. "Urbee was designed with environmentally sustainable principles dictating every step of its design."

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