Recently, Scotsman, an electric scooter team from Silicon Valley in the United States, launched the world’s first3D printingThermoplastic carbon fiber composite electric scooters have been crowd-funded for 620,000 U.S. dollars.
Carbon fiber composite materials can be divided into two categories: thermoplastic carbon fiber composite materials and thermoset carbon fiber composite materials. After the thermosetting resin is processed and molded, an insoluble three-dimensional network structure is formed in the polymer molecules, which makes it have better strength, heat resistance and chemical resistance, as well as greater brittleness, and cannot be recycled.
The thermoplastic resin can be plasticized and crystallized at a certain temperature after being melted and cooled. Has better toughness and processability. It can be used for rapid prototyping of more complex products, with low cost, a certain degree of recyclability, and strength 61 times that of steel.
In the early days, the manufacturing cost of carbon fiber composite materials was much higher than it is now, and they are widely used in military aircraft,
aerospace
Military equipment and other military fields. It was not until the late 1970s that the Formula One racing team began to look for carbon fiber to improve their performance and design. Due to its undeniable performance advantages, carbon fiber has been found in many supercars, airplanes, spacecraft and electric scooters.
The Scotsman team can think that almost all of the electric scooters on the market are of the same specification, but the body shape of each student user is different, so that it cannot fully adapt to everyone in the society, and the experience will be great. discount. So they decided to launch an electric scooter that can be tailored to the user’s body shape and height.If you use traditional
Mould
The way of mass product production is obviously impossible to achieve enterprise customization requirements, but3D printingThis provides feasibility for this development.
The team has extensive experience in the field of 3d printing in the early years, and launched a customized 3d printed electric bicycle in the early years. Scotsman can customize the height of the handlebars according to the height of corporate users, so that we can ensure that students of different heights can get a car that is most suitable for China.
At present, the electric scooter has 3 versions, single-drive 500W motor, dual-drive 2 500W motors, and dual-drive 2 1000W motors, with very powerful power. The lightweight body uses the high strength and high toughness of the carbon fiber composite body as a shock absorber instead of adding additional physical suspension.
The pedal part is equipped with 2 batteries, and the modular design of the battery is removable. And the battery can also be used as a mobile energy storage device, with multiple c-type charging ports, mobile phones, notebook computers and other power sources. The electric scooter has a visual LCD dashboard. The front of the handlebar is also equipped with a 1080P wide-angle high-definition camera, which can take pictures or record videos at any time. The body is equipped with GPS positioning. It is equipped with a mobile phone APP to support remote lock and unlock. Friends share the beautiful scenery on the road. At present, Scotsman started crowdfunding on indiegogo, and reached the crowdfunding goal in just a few days. The popularity is very high. It is expected to ship in December this year.
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