How to print a car
– that’s how many 3D-printed components BMW has produced in the past 10 years, not that you’d know it. While most people know 3D printing by its common name, BMW, Mercedes and Porsche refer to it by its technical name – additive manufacturing. It’s a rapidly growing area of automotive manufacturing, but companies have been taking the technology seriously longer than most realise. In fact, BMW estimates that last year its output of additive-manufactured parts – around 200,000 items
