Friends, the next car you are likely to see overtaking you on the high way will be three-wheeled, only ten feet long, weighs just about 1200 pounds and took about 2500 hours to print in its entirety. The three-wheel Urbee 2 is so light because it is primarily made using ABS plastic rather than steel — though the car’s engine and base frame will still be made of metal — and as a result the vehicle is expected to have significantly better gas mileage than traditional cars. Jim Kor of Kor Ecologic is currently working on Urbee 2, the second evolution of his 3D-printed car. As a test of the Urbee 2′s mileage, Kor said he wants to take the car from San Francisco to New York on just ten gallons of gas.
Kor already has 14 orders, mostly from people who worked on the design with him. The original Urbee prototype was estimated to cost around $50,000.
But how safe is a 50-piece plastic body on a highway?
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