The Urbee is the first prototype car ever to have its entire body 3D printed with an additive process. All exterior components—including the glass panel prototypes-were created using Dimension 3D Printers and Fortus 3D Production Systems at Stratasys’ digital manufacturing service—RedEye on Demand. It should sell for about $18,000 to $21,000. Not a bad price for a vehicle that can squeeze 200 miles out of a gallon of gasoline.

Look out Detroit…3D-printed cars are coming

3D seems to be all the rage nowadays. After all, filmmakers can’t move fast enough to crank out one 3D version of a movie after another. And recently, there’s been a spate of articles about 3D-printed things from buildings to human veins.

Many are unfamiliar with this technology which is truly on the leading edge of “cutting edge.” The amazing 3D printers can print using plastics, composites, and metal. Metal is printed using a special method known as “EBM” (Electron Beam Melting) technology.

The sexy little Canadian vehicle is called the “Urbee” and its name is a play on the word urban. The Urbee’s appeared on the news all over Canada and is an entrant in the Canadian X-Prize competition.

Like other 3D projects, the Urbee is the first to ever be manufactured using a gigantic, computer-driven 3D printer. The Urbee’s entire body was literally printed out using an advanced technology called “Fused Deposition Modeling.”

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