Word: istream
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...designs of the T.25 and T.27 to manufacturers, they're essentially proof-of-concept cars. His main goal is to license the revolutionary manufacturing process he's invented to build the cars, which he says expends far less energy than more traditional auto-making factories. He claims that his iStream system, as he's dubbed it, requires a fifth of the capital investment that a standard, high-volume car plant needs, and only 20% of the space. "But you can't sell an idea, especially one this disruptive and radical. You must have a physical entity," he says. (See pictures...
...challenge, because car-manufacturing hasn't changed much in 100 years. Body parts are still stamped out of sheets of steel and then shaped, welded together and painted - a process that is expensive and sucks up an awful lot of energy. Murray says his iStream system involves using composite plastic panels made by injection molding which are screwed or bolted onto a frame made of tubular steel. In the U.S., he says, the frames and molded panels could be made at one central plant, while the assembly could be done at smaller plants near distributors, which means fewer cars being...
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