Comment on A 2014 Ford electric with dead batteries is only worth 500$, even if you spent 20/30k on it

• iamtanmay@wolfballs.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Maybe there would be a service where you could print large metal parts , but its a safety risk and a huge amount of work for most people who are not engineers.

  It would be more mangeable to convert gas cars with a kit

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  • Spotted_Lady@wolfballs.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    The application for making the body with 3D printing and piecing it together is if you want to duplicate an iconic, custom car.

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    • iamtanmay@wolfballs.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      I studied Materials Sc and my roommate worked for Mercedes. Even making something small like the trunk hood requires structural and fabrication analysis.

      Depending on fabrication process, a part of the same material - e.g. aluminium or carbon fiber will have different strength characteristics. So, just 3D printing it for "cosmetic" purposes should be fine. There's already "skins" to convert ordinary cars into Lamborghini knockoffs

      In case of collisions, rolling over, or wear/tear, it will matter. Most people can't sink millions in R&D to optimize manufacture, like Big Auto

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      • Spotted_Lady@wolfballs.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        I don't know how the guy who built the car sang about in One Piece at a Time was able to make it legal.

        Lines like:

        "When he turned on the headlights, all three of them came on."

        And the part about registering it was funny where they asked for the year and he gave a 30-something year span.

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