{"id":421,"date":"2014-12-22T11:58:22","date_gmt":"2014-12-22T11:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.reconditionengines.co.uk\/blog\/?p=421"},"modified":"2019-03-25T07:31:11","modified_gmt":"2019-03-25T07:31:11","slug":"sports-car-3d-printed-fabric-skeleton-geneva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reconditionengines.co.uk\/blog\/sports-car-3d-printed-fabric-skeleton-geneva\/","title":{"rendered":"Sports car with 3D-Printed Fabric Skeleton at Geneva"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>At Geneva Show we\u2019ll be seeing some spectacular lightweight sports cars featuring 3D-printed Skeletal Structure<\/h1>\n<p>Light Cocoon, a lightweight sports <a title=\"Car engines\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reconditionengines.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>car<\/strong><\/a> concept has been built by EDAG Engineering using 3D printing technology to produce a fabric membrane which is wrapped around a skeletal structure.<\/p>\n<p>This company is involved in aerospace engineering, thus they strived for something that could change the whole concept of car designs.<\/p>\n<p>This concept is the inspiration for plant\u2019s leaf, that\u2019s the only reason it has been called \u201cbionically optimised vehicle\u201d. Jack Wolfskin is the outdoor specialist who designed the outer skin which is weather proof so it may last long enough. If you remember the <a title=\"BMW Gina\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/BMW_GINA\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>BMW GINA prototype<\/strong><\/a> which was revealed back in 2008, this idea is almost similar to that.<\/p>\n<p>Texapore Softshell is the fabric used for this prototype, the purpose of this material is to let the light in from outside and keep the weight of the vehicle to minimal as this is an extremely lightweight material. The intricate skeletal components of the chassis which has been printed using a 3D printer\u00a0display\u00a0yellow backlighting underneath.<\/p>\n<p>We hope to see Light Cocoon over a concept chassis this March at Geneva <a title=\"Auto Show\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reconditionengines.co.uk\/blog\/category\/beijing-international-auto-show-2014\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Motor Show<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Geneva Show we\u2019ll be seeing some spectacular lightweight sports cars featuring 3D-printed Skeletal Structure Light Cocoon, a lightweight sports car concept has been built by EDAG Engineering using 3D printing technology to produce a fabric membrane which is wrapped around a skeletal structure. This company is involved in aerospace engineering, thus they strived for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":422,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,43,38],"tags":[47],"class_list":["post-421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-auto-news","category-new-technology","category-supercars","tag-new-technology-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reconditionengines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reconditionengines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reconditionengines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reconditionengines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reconditionengines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.reconditionengines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2415,"href":"https:\/\/www.reconditionengines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions\/2415"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reconditionengines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reconditionengines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reconditionengines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reconditionengines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}