{"id":10364,"date":"2014-03-16T21:05:25","date_gmt":"2014-03-17T04:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=10364"},"modified":"2017-06-04T12:08:53","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T19:08:53","slug":"local-motors-will-3d-print-an-ev-live-in-chicago-in-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/local-motors-will-3d-print-an-ev-live-in-chicago-in-september","title":{"rendered":"Local Motors will 3D print an EV live in Chicago in September"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"label\">By <\/span> <span class=\"author vcard\"> <span class=\"fn\"><a title=\"Browse posts by Sebastian Blanco\" href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/bloggers\/sebastian-blanco\/\">Sebastian Blanco<\/a> - AutoBlogGreen<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve heard of EV kit cars that can take <a href=\"http:\/\/green.autoblog.com\/2014\/01\/05\/ez-ev-will-be-a-diy-electric-vehicle-you-can-build-in-a-week\/\">a week<\/a> (or <a href=\"http:\/\/green.autoblog.com\/2014\/01\/13\/urban-tabby-diy-hour-to-build-it-ev\/\">an hour<\/a>) to build, but how long do you think it would take to build an EV from scratch, using this new-fangled 3D-printing technology? If the technology from <a href=\"https:\/\/localmotors.com\/\">Local Motors<\/a> works as advertised, it should take no more than the five days. The public will get to see for ourselves during this year\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imts.com\/\">International Manufacturing Technology Show<\/a> in Chicago, IL in September. Two years ago, at the 2012 International Manufacturing Technology Show, Local Motors <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2012\/08\/30\/this-is-how-to-box-up-a-local-motors-rally-fighter-w-video\/\">built its Rally Fighter<\/a> (pictured) on the grounds during the six-day event.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/green.autoblog.com\/2014\/03\/16\/local-motors-3d-print-ev-live-chicago-september\/#continued\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sebastian Blanco \u2014 AutoBlogGreen We\u2019ve heard of EV kit cars that can take a week (or an hour) to build, but how long do you think it would take to build an EV from scratch, using this new-fangled 3D-printing technology? If the technology from Local Motors works as advertised, it should take no more [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,1528],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-disruptive-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10364"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65017,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10364\/revisions\/65017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}