{"id":311357,"date":"2019-02-10T07:41:29","date_gmt":"2019-02-10T12:41:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/uncategorized\/this-3d-printed-electric-motorcycle-looks-like-something-from-tron.php"},"modified":"2019-02-10T07:41:29","modified_gmt":"2019-02-10T12:41:29","slug":"this-3d-printed-electric-motorcycle-looks-like-something-from-tron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/futurism\/this-3d-printed-electric-motorcycle-looks-like-something-from-tron.php","title":{"rendered":"This 3D Printed Electric Motorcycle Looks Like Something From \u201cTRON\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"144\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-assets.futurism.com\/2019\/02\/3d-printed-electric-motorcycle-tron-300x144.png\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"An electric motorcycle called Nera looks like something from a video game &mdash; a design made possible by the fact that it's almost 100 percent 3D printed.\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div><h2>Print &ldquo;Motorcycle&rdquo;<\/h2><p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/future\/story\/20190208-the-worlds-first-3d-printed-electric-motorbike\">new&nbsp;<em>BBC<\/em> video<\/a> shows an electric motorcycle called the Nera that looks like something from a stylized video game &mdash; a &ldquo;TRON&rdquo;-like design made possible by the fact that it&rsquo;s almost 100 percent 3D printed, down to the airless tires.<\/p><p>&ldquo;The idea was to demonstrate to designers and engineers and architects and the general consumer what 3D printing was all about,&rdquo; said Stephan Beyer, the CEO of Nera maker BigRep. &ldquo;Historically, engineers and designers have been limited with manufacturing technologies like grinding and molding.&rdquo;<\/p><h2>&ldquo;TRON&rdquo; Bike<\/h2><p>Though you can&rsquo;t buy it yet, the&nbsp;<em>BBC<\/em> says the Nera is expected to cost about&nbsp;&pound;2,000 ($2,600.)<\/p><p>The&nbsp;<em>BBC&nbsp;<\/em>claims the Nera is the world&rsquo;s first 3D printed electric motorcycle&nbsp;&mdash; though, to be fair, a separate project <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/light-rider-the-worlds-first-3d-printed-electric-motorcycle\">called the Light Rider<\/a>&nbsp;appears to have come first.<\/p><h2>Bike Hack<\/h2><p>Still, the Nera is an extraordinarily bold design, with futuristic angles and polygons that look too sharp for the staid world of automotive design. Beyers credits those bold choices with the possibilities opened up by 3D printing.<\/p><p>&ldquo;The nice thing with 3D printing is that you can swipe those limitations away and you can create objects that have completely new capabilities, follow completely new sets of designs,&rdquo; he told the <em>BBC<\/em>. &ldquo;For instance, with the outer hull of the bike, that follows a design that we created that you would typically not be able to bring to life with a traditional bike.&rdquo;<\/p><p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/future\/story\/20190208-the-worlds-first-3d-printed-electric-motorbike\">The world&rsquo;s first 3D-printed electric motorbike<\/a> [<em>BBC<\/em>]<\/p><p><strong><em>More on motorcycles:&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/harley-davidsons-electric-motorcycle-august\"><em>Harley-Davidson&rsquo;s Electric Motorcycle Will Go on Sale in August<\/em><\/a><\/p><p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/3d-printed-electric-motorcycle-tron\/\">This 3D Printed Electric Motorcycle Looks Like Something From &ldquo;TRON&rdquo;<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\">Futurism<\/a>.<\/p><p>The rest is here:<br><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/3d-printed-electric-motorcycle-tron\/\" title=\"This 3D Printed Electric Motorcycle Looks Like Something From &ldquo;TRON&rdquo;\">This 3D Printed Electric Motorcycle Looks Like Something From &ldquo;TRON&rdquo;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Print \u201cMotorcycle\u201d A new\u00a0 BBC video shows an electric motorcycle called the Nera that looks like something from a stylized video game \u2014 a \u201cTRON\u201d-like design made possible by the fact that it\u2019s almost 100 percent 3D printed, down to the airless tires. \u201cThe idea was to demonstrate to designers and engineers and architects and the general consumer what 3D printing was all about,\u201d said Stephan Beyer, the CEO of Nera maker BigRep. \u201cHistorically, engineers and designers have been limited with manufacturing technologies like grinding and molding.\u201d \u201cTRON\u201d Bike Though you can\u2019t buy it yet, the\u00a0 BBC says the Nera is expected to cost about\u00a0\u00a32,000 ($2,600.) The\u00a0 BBC\u00a0 claims the Nera is the world\u2019s first 3D printed electric motorcycle\u00a0\u2014 though, to be fair, a separate project called the Light Rider \u00a0appears to have come first.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/futurism\/this-3d-printed-electric-motorcycle-looks-like-something-from-tron.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-311357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311357"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}