Hi Peri and All, I could but I've already made a far stronger one and have the tooling to make more if I get an order. It'll be quite a while before 3d printing can beat it in strength/weight ratio or speed of building in $ we can afford. I think for a while 3D printing will be limited to prototypes, mold forms, to make production tooling from and very high value products .
It's not a fast process. Likely a car would take days depending on how much is done. Got another wood/epoxy one legally still the Ewoody but very aero, nice I need for long distance transportation. I'm doing the skin on now and finishing up the drivetrain. Just got the airspring shocks , steering tie rods so I can finish the suspension. Not easy on SSI income but coming along. Next I finally have the suspension, etc designs for the FreedomEV production, just need good transport to get that together which will be next. Once in running order hopefully with a used Leaf pack if I used it all would be a 250 mile range EV should !! With that it shouldn't be any problems getting more orders. Watching the auto auctions hoping to get a totaled Leaf so bad no one else wants it. though likely have to sell half the pack to afford it. If not I'll just go lead and a range extender Like my new Ewoody until some lithium modules fall my way. Jerry Dycus On Saturday, June 28, 2014 3:51 PM, Peri Hartman via EV <[email protected]> wrote: Attn: Jerry Dycus ------ Forwarded Message ------ From: "Peri Hartman" <[email protected]> To: "Jerry Dycus" <[email protected]> Sent: 28-Jun-14 9:09:47 AM Subject: 3d printing auto body >Hi Jerry, > >I saw this article via EV World and thought of you. I wonder if you >could access and make your Freedom EV body with a 3D printer? >Combining that with some stock parts - particularly windshield and door >glass - you could make a very streamlined body that meets your >lightweight and functional requirements. Have you looked into this at >all? > >http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2014/06/16/strati-is-soon-to-be-the-worlds-first-3-d-printed.aspx >Peri > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20140628/3091f61a/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20140628/62cbfad0/attachment-0001.htm> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
