Move over Henry Ford – usher in the 3-D car and the new revolution of the automobile industry – and meet the Urbee.
The Urbee , a “runabout” plastic vehicle with a hybrid engine, has three wheels and the ability to reach speeds of up to 70 miles per hour; the ten-foot car can carry up to twelve-hundred pounds, and is environmentally sound from the workshop to the road. The brain behind the Urbee is engineer Jim Kor and his team at KOR EcoLogic. The team’s prowess for this visionary vehicle shows “that anything really is possible” and the Urbee is poised to change how the world approaches manufacturing, according to Jim Baretel, Stratasys (News 
- Alert) vice president of RedEye On Demand. The car takes about three months to be printed and assembled.
“A future where 3-D printers build cars may not be far off after all,” added Bartel. Kors first unveiled the Urbee printed prototype in 2011 at the TEDx conference with the hopes of having a “street-ready” model on the market within a few years. That same year, Urbee’s 3-D car body earned its way into the World’s Top 10 Innovative Transportation Companies list.
Urbee is designed to be environmentally sustainable because it can efficiently store and use exactly the amount of solar and wind energy a driver can collect in a one-car garage in one day. If one wants to travel farther in a given day, the ethanol powered engine is used...Read More >>>
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