3i-PRINT Project Builds Front End of VW Caddy

In an ambitious project, an all-star team of companies has worked together to design and build the front end of a vintage VW Caddy using 3D printing and other digital technology. The project, titled 3i-PRINT, took only nine months, a remarkably short period of time considering what was accomplished. The goal of the project was to demonstrate the potential of industrial additive manufacturing and other advanced manufacturing techniques for applications such as, for example, manufacturing cars. Read more at 3DPrint.com: http://3dprint.com/185878/3i-print-vw-caddy-front-end/

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This is great work and it has so much potential for electric vehicle construction.
I wonder about passive safety of these structures though - we will need a lot of testing.