The last time we checked on California sports car maker Czinger, the company was racking up lap records across the globe for its 21C hybrid supercar.
To review, the real secret sauce powering the 21C's performance—and outside investors' desire to be a part of Czinger—was the way the car was built using 3D printing, additive manufacturing , and AI to design the strongest, and lightest components.Czinger, with the aid of its manufacturing arm and parent company Divergent , uses these 3D-printed parts along with an innovative manufacturing process to build the 21C supercar - which costs around $2 million.
Czinger explained the design and building process for the C21’s bespoke parts, which uses AI to generate a design that meets all crash and durability requirements in the smallest, most lightweight form to maximize performance. Then additive manufacturing printers and 3D printers create "LEGO blocks," as Czinger called them, which are the parts made by the machines, and a "robotic octopus" of sorts grabs those parts, and puts them together.