Innovative crowd-sourcing startup Local Motors has unveiled an autonomous minibus called Olli which has begun testing on Washington roads, with trials also expected to reach Las Vegas by 2017. Local Motors is best known for the crowd-sourcing-designed Rally Fighter – a 4×4 coupe powered by a diesel BMW straight six […]
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Local Motors unveils LM3D Swim; production-ready 3D-printed car
As part of its commitment to bring 3D-printed cars to the mass market, Local Motors today unveiled the LM3D Swim; a fully homologated production version of the Project Redacted competition-winning entry by Kevin Lo. Unveiled at the Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) show in Las Vegas, the Swim is a […]
Local Motors one step closer to mass-producing 3D-printed cars
3D-printed mass-produced vehicles could become a reality thanks to Local Motors, with plans to introduce low-speed electric vehicles early in 2016. The Arizona start-up has ambitions to become a disruptive force in vehicle manufacturing by pioneering the use of 3D printing. Local Motors is an open source company which crowd-sources […]
Local Motors assembles 3D-printed Strati EV live at SEMA
If the Beatles released their hit single ‘Drive My Car’ today instead of in 1965, the iconic chorus could be ‘Baby, you can print my car’. For that is exactly what US company Local Motors has done at the SEMA show in Las Vegas; 3D-printing the separate parts of its […]