All the vehicles on MARS are evs. ;)
Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE smartphone-------- Original message --------From: Roland via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> Date: 12/8/2015 1:08 PM (GMT-06:00) To: EVDL Administrator <evp...@drmm.net>, Electric Vehicle Discussion List <ev@lists.evdl.org> Subject: Re: [EVDL] EVLN: Leno's Garage spins Local Motors' 3D-printed EV on national TV If you are living on Mars and want to get around in a EV, you can just down load it instead of waiting 30 minutes shipping time from Earth. Roland ----- Original Message ----- From: EVDL Administrator via EV<mailto:ev@lists.evdl.org> To: Electric Vehicle Discussion List<mailto:ev@lists.evdl.org> Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2015 11:19 AM Subject: Re: [EVDL]EVLN: Lenoâ?Ts Garage spins Local Motors' 3D-printed EV on national TV far from an expert on 3d printing, but to me it looks like two things. One is a way to design and custom manufacture one-off or limited-run parts right in your shop. That's pretty cool, but I get the impression that the process is slow, and the materials are too expensive for more than limited use. The other side of 3d printing seems to be a sort of Netflix for objects. You can download a design and make it at home, instead of having to order it from someone and have it shipped in. I guess that's good in some situations. However, I really don't see how either of these would apply to a production EV. ANd then there's this quotation from Local Motors, which frankly sounds like gobbledegook to me: "At Local Motors, we are hell-bent on revolutionizing manufacturing ... Car manufacturers have been stamping parts the same way for more than 100 years. Now we have the technology to make the process and products better and faster by linking the online to the offline through DDM. This process will create better and safer products, and we are doing just that." Huh??? Maybe I'm missing something, but 3d printing in this setting looks suspiciously like just another technical bandwagon for folks seeking investors' money to ride around on and wave their banners. Can someone explain what's so exciting here? David Roden - Akron, Ohio, USA EVDL Administrator = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = EVDL Information: http://www.evdl.org/help/<http://www.evdl.org/help/> = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Note: mail sent to "evpost" and "etpost" addresses will not reach me. To send a private message, please obtain my email address from the webpage http://www.evdl.org/help/<http://www.evdl.org/help/> . = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub<http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub> http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org<http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org> Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/<http://evdl.org/evln/> Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA>) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20151208/a5e3704d/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20151208/6e641634/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)