SpaceBanter.com - View Single Post - Towards the *fully* 3D-printed electric cars.

**Fred J. McCall[_3_]**

wrote:

My estimate is that for all things manufactured parts that can be made
cheaper and faster by conventional means amount to about 99.99%.

And the world will only need 3 computers. Usual Chimp wisdom.

And about the only place where weight matters that much is in things
that fly and in that case useless mass is already gone from the design
without the expense of 3D printing.

That's why we use carbon fiber on cars; because weight doesn't matter.

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