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Old 07-31-2022, 04:00 PM   #14 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by freebeard View Post
A 3D printed aluminum car body would leapfrog over Tesla's Gigapresses and add the ability to make any arbitrary body shell for any arbitrary drive train.
Someone could optimize the shape in a slippery, future-proof manner and just keep printing it for decades. The cars would become stupid cheap to fix and repair if parts were all over the place and readily available, and there'd be no need to keep changing out the chassis/body with each new vehicle model.

So many things that could go right with this.
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