Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 8, 2014
A team led by Local Motors is 3D-printing a full vehicle body over 44 hours during the International Manufacturing Technology Show 2014 and will follow it up with a first drive set to take place the morning of Saturday, 13 September. SABIC’s LNP STAT-KON carbon fiber-reinforced compound. IMTS 2014 is runing 8-13 September.
Green Car Congress
JULY 22, 2013
Designed from the ground up to be an electric car, the BMW i3 uses the industry’s first mass produced carbon fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP) passenger cell mounted on an aluminum chassis. The BMW i3 will make its world debut at three simultaneous events in New York, London and Beijing on Monday, 29 July.
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 10, 2013
The BMW i8 goes on sale in the US in 2014. The i8—the first plug-in hybrid vehicle from the BMW Group—will have a manufacturer’s suggest retail price of $135,925 (including destination and handling) when it arrives in US showrooms in spring of 2014. Click to enlarge. The combination of a new 3-cylinder, 1.5-liter
Green Car Congress
MARCH 23, 2015
In the 2015 FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) and in the Le Mans 24 Hours as the season’s pinnacle event, Audi will compete with a thoroughly revised R18 e-tron quattro diesel hybrid racer in the 4-megajoule class. less diesel fuel per lap than in 2014. Earlier post.) 2015 R18 e-tron quattro. Click to enlarge.
Cars That Think
APRIL 25, 2024
That standard of safety, he says, is meant to ensure that the probability of a fatal event is no greater than one in one million flight hours. In 2014, IEEE Spectrum reported about Aerofex’s pledge to deliver a commercially available hoverbike, the Aero-X, by 2017. It’s one in one billion flight hours.” Where Are They Now?
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 13, 2015
The design was chosen in May 2014 from more than 200 submitted to Local Motors by the company’s online co-creation community after launching a call for entries. Made from a carbon fiber reinforced thermoplastic material by SABIC, the current model of the Strati takes approximately 44 hours to print 212 layers. Earlier post.).
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 13, 2012
The i3 and i8 will become the first purpose-built electric and hybrid-electric production vehicles to be made primarily from carbon fiber when they come to market in 2013 and 2014 respectively. Also at the event, Mitchell L. Earlier post , earlier post.). i3 Concept.
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