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These are limited edition cars. A relative handful are made. That’s often where a manufacturer goes to more customized tooling and parts. Keep in mind Porsche o

These are limited edition cars. A relative handful are made. That’s often where a manufacturer goes to more customized tooling and parts. Keep in mind Porsche owners of these types of cars will often easily spend 20-50k usd customizing the most minute details such as stitching color of the seatbelt, etc. Factoring a few thousand extra dollars in engine cost is easy.

DavidPeiffer 6y ago
>Factoring a few thousand extra dollars in engine cost is easy. Totally get your point from the rest of the comment, but we could be seeing notably more expense from this. 2015-2017 I was working in a university research lab and we had an industry partner with a metal printer. They said a piece 10 inches long and 3 inches in diameter had an all-in cost of 5-8k, depending if it was steel or titanium. I never saw a detailed breakdown of the costs they accounted for, and hope we see these manufacturing costs continue to drop. There is a lot of challenge making the powder good for 3d printing. Tons of requirements around the size and shape - not being perfectly spherical, not being too long, etc. My understanding is this leads to much of the high material cost.
taylodl 6y ago
I would assume it would be for racing, not consumers. They didn't mention cost, but looking at the process, time and materials involved I'd bet you're looking at tens of thousands of dollars. I don't see consumers going for that, but GT racing clubs? Oh yeah!
- bitexploder 6y ago
  I can see some overlap on the extreme consumer end [their 300K 700hp car is probably hundreds produced at most. The profits are already really high on those vehicles so I am curious if/when/how they will release and price this tech, or if it is just some random Porsche team drumming up some marketing for mostly vaporware :)

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These are limited edition cars. A relative handful are made. That’s often where a manufacturer goes to more customized tooling and parts. Keep in mind Porsche o

by bitexploder 6y ago

DavidPeiffer 6y ago
>Factoring a few thousand extra dollars in engine cost is easy. Totally get your point from the rest of the comment, but we could be seeing notably more expense from this. 2015-2017 I was working in a university research lab and we had an industry partner with a metal printer. They said a piece 10 inches long and 3 inches in diameter had an all-in cost of 5-8k, depending if it was steel or titanium. I never saw a detailed breakdown of the costs they accounted for, and hope we see these manufacturing costs continue to drop. There is a lot of challenge making the powder good for 3d printing. Tons of requirements around the size and shape - not being perfectly spherical, not being too long, etc. My understanding is this leads to much of the high material cost.
taylodl 6y ago
I would assume it would be for racing, not consumers. They didn't mention cost, but looking at the process, time and materials involved I'd bet you're looking at tens of thousands of dollars. I don't see consumers going for that, but GT racing clubs? Oh yeah!
- bitexploder 6y ago
  I can see some overlap on the extreme consumer end [their 300K 700hp car is probably hundreds produced at most. The profits are already really high on those vehicles so I am curious if/when/how they will release and price this tech, or if it is just some random Porsche team drumming up some marketing for mostly vaporware :)