The Strati -World's first 3 D printed car

Welcome to the age of printed cars. Arizona based car manufacturer Local Motors has come out with the World's first 3 D printed car - the Strati. It won the 2014 Popular Mechanics Breakthrough Award in New York yesterday.


The car chassis/frame, exterior body, and interior features are made from ABS plastic reinforced with carbon fibres. The electric engine, wheels and other parts were sourced from Renault’s Twizy. It takes the company around 44 hours to print out.

It only has a top speed of about 40mph (60km/h) but I am sure the speeds will improve as time goes by. I am just thinking at the possibilities. In the future, you can probably print out spare parts at home.

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Canada September 2014

This little bugger is making an impact in Canada

Smart Push Edition

Another good month for the Canadian EV Market, with some 529 units sold, pulling the EV Share to 0,27%.

At the top, the usual front-runners (Volt and Leaf), now have new company...And it's not Tesla!

Smart is aggressively promoting the Smart Fortwo ED (Stock clearance?), offering 3.000$ up front, add it to regional incentives (Quebec...),  and you've got a car that's cheaper than the gas Fortwo...No wonder 50% of Smart sales last August were ED... 

With this recent push in sales, Smart is already ahead of Tesla in the YTD ranking, let's now sit back and wait for Tesla move, who knew that a microcar and a full-size sedan would offer such an interesting fight?.

Other than that, let's salute the Prius Plug-in, selling 11 units, its second best result of the year.

Pl	Canada	Sept.	YTD	%
1	Chevrolet Volt	145	1.294	34
2	Nissan Leaf	113	805	21
3	Smart Fortwo ED e)	120	554	14
4	Tesla Model S e)	70	537	14
5	Ford C-Max Energi e)	15	154	4
6 7	BMW i3 e) Mitsubishi I-Miev	30 7	146 86	4 2
8	Ford Fusion Energi e)	10	85	2
9	Toyota Prius Plug-In	11	63	2
10	Ford Focus Electric e)	5	46	1
11	Cadillac ELR	3	31	1
12 13 14	Chevrolet Spark EV Fisker Karma Porsche 918		15 5 3	0 0 0
	TOTAL	529	3.824	100

e) Estimate

Sources: Greencarreports; Good Car Bad Car

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