Analysts peg the growth rate of auto industry purchases of additive manufacturing equipment at more than 20 percent per year until the end of the decade, as automakers turn to 3D printing for rapid ...

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 ...

In the future, it may just be easier to find spare parts for older cars and trucks. Mercedes isn’t the first automaker to turn to 3D printing for parts, as Ford has been playing with the technology ...

Thyssenkrupp and Wilhelmsen launched a 3D printing joint venture aimed at providing 3D-printed spare parts to the maritime industry. Mechanical parts wear out and break. It happens to cars, planes, ...

Kurtis Wilde, parts manager at Murray Honda in Chilliwack, British Columbia, envisions the day dealerships use 3D printers to fabricate their own parts — small, plastic, non-safety-related ones within ...

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 ...

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, ...

Ford Motor Company (NYSE: F) is testing out 3D printing for auto parts. The tests of 3D printing for auto parts are taking place at Ford Motor Company's Ford Research and Innovation Center in Dearborn ...

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 ...

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 ...

The movie Back to the Future showed us cars hovering in air in an idea of what 2015 would look like. Now in 2016, we see our cars still bound to the earth. However, when the movie was made, in 1985, ...