British automotive tech company Carbon Performance recently ‘grew’ a variety of 3D printed brake calipers for various car applications on its proprietary automated intelligent platform called SK3L370N™ to demonstrate its capabilities. The platform automatically grows or generates next-generation, future-proof, 3D printed, environmentally sustainable auto parts layer-by-layer in seconds using self-taught algorithms without any human intervention.
The 3D printed brake calipers are a significant milestone in the platform’s capabilities to automatically generate entire cars part-by-part on the cloud, based on automakers’ tailored requirements.
The face of Mobility is changing rapidly with electric cars growing at 59% and autonomous cars growing at 37%, but in order to accelerate the move towards sustainable transportation, more companies, especially SMEs and start-ups need to start developing and building the cars of tomorrow.
But it is almost impossible for smaller companies to get into the automotive industry, given that it takes £100s of millions and in most cases £billions to develop and build cars. SK3L370N™ is an automated one-stop ecosystem that empowers and enables SMEs and start-ups to develop and build the cars of tomorrow without the need for prohibitive costs, human capital, resources, time, and infrastructure requirements.
Gilbert Peters, CTO of Carbon Performance commented, “ Carbon Performance is truly democratising the automotive industry making it accessible for automakers of all sizes from giants to independent start-up teams to develop the cars of tomorrow. I believe that it is the ripe time that the potential of Additive Manufacturing and Digitalisation is realised in the automotive and the wider transportation industry.”
SK3L370N™ generated brake calipers for various automotive applications such as Porsche GT3RS, Ferrari 812, Lotus Elise, and Tesla Model S. The 3D printed calipers exhibited the following properties:
- Radically ultra-lightweight
- Increased strength and stiffness
- Improved performance
- Reduced fuel consumption in fuel-powered cars
- Increased range in electric cars (16km extra range per charge in Tesla
Model S) - Future-proof (instantly adaptable to autonomous cars)
- Dramatically cuts down CO2 emissions
Carbon Performance will be launching an entirely 3D printed electric autonomous car platform by early 2020 to showcase the complete autonomy capabilities of SK3L370N™.
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