让我们追逐。
For those of you who don’t know Kevin Czinger, he’s the man who built this.
You’re looking at the world’s first 3D printed supercar, Blade. That’s right, the beautiful car in the photo above has a chassis that’s made up entirely of 3D printed aluminum nodes and carbon fiber connectors.
The term supercar is no gimmick either. Weighing a mere 1,388lbs, this beast pumps out a whopping 700hp and 500lb-ft of torque, good for a 0-60 time of just over 2 seconds.
当在计算机屏幕上阅读时，这些性能数字的大小可能会丢失，因此，这是一段视频，其中有刀片在硬加速下以将点驱动回家。
Who said 3D printed cars can’t be badass?
Czinger是Divergent Microfactories，负责刀片的公司和令人难以置信的技术使其成为可能。凯文（Kevin）和Divergent的团队的目标是从根本上改变我们制造汽车的方式。
I had the chance to catch up with Kevin last week and talk about the things he’s working on. Over the course of an hour, he gave me the scoop about Blade, Divergent Microfactories, and the danger traditional manufacturing poses to our future. It’s notjust我们应该担心的尾管排放 - 他有冷酷的科学来支持它。
Kevin I’m curious, why build a supercar to showcase your new technology? Why Blade as your first product?
Well, for a couple of reasons.
One is that I wanted to build a car I wanted to drive.
第二，我认为，通过建造超级跑车，您可以通过汽车的性能向人们展示我们使用的底盘制造系统可以应对极端力量和极端性能。它具有很大的力量，而且超级轻。那是另一个重要的验证。
The third thing is that animal spirit and interest are generated by cool-looking, super-performing things. When you’re starting out presenting a new technology, it’s good to have something that’s beautiful and stirs the animal spirit.
我问凯文关于刀片一直从公众那里得到的响应。他分享了他最喜欢的故事。
People haven’t seen anything like it. I was at the Hollywood design show a few weeks ago. When I was pulling the car up to bring it inside the hall, two different tourist buses had their drivers stop and pull over so they could see the car. Everywhere we go it receives an incredible emotional response, which is what we were really hoping for.
现在听起来您是一个真正的汽车家伙，所以我要问，它如何开车？与现代性能车相提并论吗？还是还有怪癖可以解决？
The car handles between zero and 120 mph extraordinarily well. We’re really a technology company. We’re not trying to build as many cars as possible or build racecars, so we haven’t sorted it out as a racecar – but driving, braking, cornering… it performs well.
The acceleration is totally incredible. You’re looking at a car that weighs 1,388lbs and generates more than 700hp and 500lb-ft of torque! It has very stiff, raw performance.
So, how do you explain this technology to someone who doesn’t know what it is?
If you look at how cars are manufactured today – and have been for many decades – you’re taking a design and freezing it in hard metal tooling. That takes many months and costs tens of millions of dollars. Then you need a 400-ton stamping machine and a factory that costs a minimum of 250 million dollars. It costs so much that you’re stamping that same basic design for 7-10yearsto get a return on that massive amount of capital.
整个汽车行业都集中在非常昂贵的资产的容量利用上。
不同的微型手段的技术将整个不灵活的过程完全落在了头上。现在，它是快速的软件设计更改，而不是硬金属工具的设计更改。
凯文（Kevin）解释说，借助Divergent的技术，可以制造一辆汽车，以五十五的资本成本的传统制造设置。Divergent的技术还大大减少了材料和能源输入和废物。
底盘连接器称为“节点”，是由铝合金打印出的3D，并用碳纤维管组装。这会产生极端的强度和轻巧的重量，同时允许设计变化。
Kevin, why did you want to develop this technology?
I learned the inflexibility of hard metal tooling, as well as the need to change the way we manufacture cars while working at Coda.
辛格co-founde Coda是电动汽车公司d in 2008. He learned first hand what it takes to build an EV and bring it to the US market.
人们在自欺欺人 - 我在自欺欺人 - 看着一辆电动汽车，说“嘿，没有尾管排气，这一定可以。”没有尾管排气是积极的，但是制造一辆大型重型汽车的制造远不止于此。
The national academy of science produced a 600-page report on the environmental impact of cars. What they found was that how you manufacture a car and its fuel is far more important than tailpipe emissions.
凯文（Kevin）分享了这张图，突出了制造车辆的环境影响。
如果你说,到99年的100人,他们将look at you and say, ‘Is that true?’ No one even thinks about life cycle analysis, and, yet, we can destroy our planet if we don’t. We need to look at everything that happens from mining through manufacturing, vehicle operation to disposal.
It took us 113 years to build around 2 billion cars. Over the next 40 to 50 years, if the trend continues, we’re going to triple that number. The vast majority of that environmental damage is not going to come from tailpipe exhaust. So, I looked at that and said there has to be some different way.
您是否担心这可能会失败？您将面临您无法克服的挑战吗？
There was a long pause while Kevin thought about his answer.
当然可能会失败。
您正在战斗，对吗？您正在一场未知结果的战斗。您要么有勇气继续前进，要么不继续前进。
Do you ride a bike at all? There’s a point in a bike race where… where you’ve turned yourself inside out. And youcouldlet up for a second, but if you don’t – and you have no idea if it’s going to work or not – youmay最终获胜。
Well, that’s what it’s like. You turn yourself inside out against the unknown outcome.
Kevin told me he had a dinner meeting, so we should begin wrapping things up. I thanked him for his time, and pondered my last question. I was inspired by Kevin’s hustle; his ability to bring his ideas to life.
What advice would you give to an aspiring entrepreneur?
有一次我的妻子问：“这一切的秘诀是什么？”
It’s simple; I move my feet. The moment I know I need to do something, I take a step forward, and keep going. If you keep getting up and keep going, you’re going to make something happen.
Move your feet, man.
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Interview conducted by Wesley Hart
