Electric Vehicles

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Electric Vehicles are a key part of our tomorrow and how we get there. If we can get all the fossil fuel vehicles off our roads, out of our seas and out of our skies, we'll have a much better environment. This community is where we discuss the various different vehicles and news stories regarding electric transportation.

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[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 3 points 17 hours ago

Ideally, they’d innovate as part of that by adopting new technologies like 3D printing to bring costs down

Generally, 3D printing is cheaper for very small product runs, but ends up being much more expensive than traditional manufacturing at scale.

Setting up an injection molding machine, for example, is very expensive and takes more time than setting up a 3D printer ... but once set up, it can crank out several parts per minute, while the 3D printer is taking hours for each print.