Kevin Czinger reckons cars can be designed and made like smartphones, with brands developing gotta-have-it products with help from artificially intelligent and machine-learned supercomputers, with construction farmed out to a deglobalized constellation of contract manufacturers. Additive manufacturing, or 3D printing, is key to his vision and is the mission of his company, Divergent 3D.
When I first covered Czinger’s idea in 2017, his vehicle architecture involved 3D-printed aluminum nodes connecting commodity