Polymaker to Manufacture USD 10000 3D-printed EV

Polymaker, which specializes in 3D printed products will be collaborating with XEV, an Italian vehicle manufacturer to make a USD 10,000 3D-printed car. The two companies will make a 3D printable car on a large scale and eventually the price is expected to come down to about USD 9,450, based on a report in the South China Morning Post.

The 3-D printed vehicle will be a two-seater car that will be able to attain a top speed of 70 kph and can cover 150 kilometers on a single charge. Polymaker said that it will ,ass producing the vehicle in China and based on the current timeline, the vehicle is expected to be available at the retail level in the second quarter of 2019. Polymaker displayed a prototype of the LSEV, at Shanghai’s China 3D-printing Culture Museum, and is planning to showcase the vehicle it calls an LEV at the forthcoming Auto China 2018 in Beijing in late April.

XEV said that it has already received around 7,000 orders for what it is calling the world’s first mass-produced 3D-printed electric vehicle. According to XEV, almost all the visible parts of the vehicle would be 3D-printed except for its windows, tires and chassis.

XEV is a company that was set up less than a year ago by Guo Xiaozheng and a handful of Chinese auto industry professionals and says that it can create a new model from scratch in just four months.

XEV used FDM 3D printing and Polymaker materials to reduce the number of plastic components in the vehicle from over 2,000 to only 57. The LSEV weighs only 450 kilograms, a lot less than the 1000 kilos that is the norm for cars of similar size.

XEV will be using a single production line which will also have 3D printers and assembly facilities to make 500 cars annually.