{"id":6639,"date":"2018-01-17T00:01:21","date_gmt":"2018-01-17T00:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.3dnatives.com\/en\/?p=6639"},"modified":"2024-02-21T09:39:40","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T08:39:40","slug":"local-motors-olli-160120184","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.3dnatives.com\/en\/local-motors-olli-160120184\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Motors receives $1bn for ‘Olli,’ the 3D Printed Autonomous Bus"},"content":{"rendered":"

Local Motors are an American company based in Arizona, known for 3D printing a variety of vehicles over the years. A few days ago, they announced investments of $1bn in the launch of their 3D printed autonomous vehicle, the ‘Olli’. This autonomously driven vehicle promises to revolutionise the status quo in public transport.<\/p>\n

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The Olli, Local Motors’ autonomous 3D printed bus.<\/p><\/div>\n

New partners invest in the Olli<\/h3>\n

Through partnerships such as with Elite Transportation Services (ETS) based in Florida, and Xcelerate in Texas, Local Motors aims to take Olli worldwide. Elite Transportation Services partnered to provide customers with a comprehensive operating solution, including maintenance, insurance, warranty service and regular shuttle checks.\u00a0Olli has already been introduced into various cities such as Washington DC, Knoxville TN, and Germany however. This innovative combination of 3D printing, engineering and artificial intelligence from IBM Watson looks to be very promising.<\/p>\n

For all customers who have already partnered with other transport companies, Local Motors offer opportunities to finance the autonomous bus Olli for up to 84 months. This is in order to maintain relations with transport companies.\u00a0Financing the 20 million dollar Olli shuttles received from Xcelerate will also help the company develop sustainable and autonomous transportation solutions.<\/p>

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The Olli in production.<\/p><\/div>\n

Local Motors plans expansion<\/h3>\n

The US manufacturer has reportedly already opened factories in Phoenix, Knoxville, Las Vegas, National Harbor and Berlin.\u00a0Local Motors wants to produce its Olli shuttles on-site and on-demand with its own additive manufacturing process. They claim this process reduces tool costs by 50% and overall production time by 90%.<\/p>\n

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Local Motors’ manufacturing plant, where the Olli is 3D printed.<\/p><\/div>\n

Will Local Motors change urban mobility?<\/h3>\n

It’s too early to tell how this 3D printed bus will impact public transport. Perhaps it will take over, and ‘Ollying’ somewhere will become a verb like ‘Googling’ is. Nevertheless, Olli shows an application of 3D printing to create a working bus and therefore how versatile the printing process is.<\/p>\n

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