Production of the 2022 Chevrolet Tahoe was about to begin late last summer in Arlington, Texas, when engineers made a last-minute design change to the tailgate-mounted spoiler. The move threatened to ...

The effort promises to be better for the environment without compromising Ford's quality standards. One company's 3D-printing waste is another company's injection-molded vehicle parts. Ford and HP ...

3D printing has entered the mainstream with carmakers, allowing them to speed up development and production for certain parts. For instance, when Chevrolet modified the design of the 2022 Tahoe, it ...

The global automotive 3D printing market size was US$ 2060.03 million in 2021. The global automotive 3D printing market size is forecast to reach US$ 14,022.4 million in 2030, growing at a compound ...

Volkswagen is is using a new process known as binder jetting to manufacture components at its main plant in Wolfsburg, Germany. While conventional 3D printing uses a laser to build a component layer ...

Imagine: A laser fuses layer after layer of razor-thin powder until it forms a solid metal shape. This process, known as 3D printing, is Volkswagen’s newest method to create car parts. Last year, ...

When you want to fabricate something you either start with something and take away what you don’t want — subtractive manufacturing — or you start with nothing and add material, which is additive ...

For years, three-dimensional printing has promised to revolutionize the auto industry, potentially saving automakers millions of dollars. And while it's not a widespread practice yet,Mercedeshas ...

DETROIT — General Motors has used 3D printing since 1989 to help build prototypes faster, but the technology wasn't ready to go much beyond that. Now, GM is 3D-printing tools for medical device ...

BMW started experimenting with 3D-printing in 2010, when their DTM cars needed lightweight water pump pulleys. Parts made using additive manufacturing processes made it into series production two ...

3D printing could add the performance factor necessary to meet production demands and regulations. The movie Back to the Future showed us cars hovering in air in an idea of what 2015 would look like.

Significant progress in additive manufacturing (AM) technology — popularly known as 3D printing — has transformed the ways in which products are designed and manufactured. Over the past decade, 3D ...