Local Motors – Crowd Sourced Innovation in the Transportation Space… and 3D Printed Cars!
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 26 December 2016
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
They have partnered with industry leading IoT companies to create a truly unique car ownership experience. From the retail lobby, to the factory floor, to the open road, they're making everything simpler and smarter.
Sustainable vehicle development utilizing DDM manufacturing techniques, at small-footprint Micro factories, separates Local Motors from the competition.
Matthew Gunson, Consumer Insights Manager at Local Motors talked in detail about this extremely interesting technology, including Ollie, a revolutionary new, 3D printed transport vehicle that can carry 11 passengers and solves many transportation problems.
This is a must listen for all 3D printing and car enthusiasts. Subscribe, Listen and Rate this podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Almost Here, Round the Corner of Future Technology Podcasts with Richard Jacobs. |
| 0:07.9 | Future Technologies always to transform our lives for better or worse are the focus of this podcast. |
| 0:13.6 | Almost here means these technologies are now here and starting to be used. |
| 0:18.1 | We're just around the corner. |
| 0:19.7 | From Bitcoin to artificial intelligence, 3D printing, blockchain, virtual reality, and more. |
| 0:27.9 | Okay, this is Richard Jacobs with Future Tech Podcast, almost here around the corner, future technology. |
| 0:35.7 | Today I'm speaking with Matthew Gunson from Local Motors, |
| 0:39.8 | a company that uses 3D printing to make actual cars, automobiles. |
| 0:45.5 | They're very fascinating. |
| 0:46.8 | This is going to be a great interview. |
| 0:48.4 | Welcome, Matthew. |
| 0:49.0 | How you doing? |
| 0:50.3 | Doing well. |
| 0:50.9 | Thank you. |
| 0:51.7 | How are you doing, Richard? |
| 0:53.1 | Good, good. |
| 0:58.0 | So first question, I gave a brief description. You can describe things far better. |
| 1:00.0 | What would you say it as local motors does and what's the motivation behind what you do? |
| 1:06.0 | So we're a company that designs, builds and sells vehicles, and we were founded by Jay Rogers. |
| 1:14.9 | He was a Marine, and when he was fighting in Iraq, he kind of became acutely aware of the tremendous costs associated with oil. And that led him to, you know, with oil. |
| 1:28.8 | And that led him to, you know, question why, you know, |
| 1:33.7 | automotive manufacturing hasn't really changed much over the past hundred years. |
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