Justin Fishkin, Thomas Weber.
“Imagine walking into one of our stores, walking up to a screen, choosing one of 9 bodies, choosing one of 4 powertrains, like electric, natural gas, diesel, etc, choosing your tires and wheels, your color and pressing ‘Go’ — and having those sorts of ranges of choices, that’s what we are driving for.”
Justin Fishkin, Chief Strategy Officer for Local Motors, is painting a rather vivid picture of the future of 3D car-printing. Concept Copy Shop 3.0, we’d say.
3dprint.com
“Imagine walking into one of our stores, walking up to a screen, choosing one of 9 bodies, choosing one of 4 powertrains, like electric, natural gas, diesel, etc, choosing your tires and wheels, your color and pressing ‘Go’ — and having those sorts of ranges of choices, that’s what we are driving for.”
Daimler’s head of development, Thomas Weber, seems to be shifting up a gear on plug-ins or say he is urging buyers to do so.
spiegel.de (in German)
“To reduce CO2 emissions further and faster, electrification has to increase. 2020 we will need to realise six-digit sales numbers in that segment.”
