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COVER STORY
The Czingers, father
Kevin and son Lukas.
First deliveries of the
21C are set for Q4
2023, and production
is limited to 80 cars.
Base price is
$2 million.
And on the assembly side, we've gone from essentially
a concept, bonding - and doing it manually - to
a fully robotic-based, fixture-less assembly process.
Additive-manufactured
rear subframe of the
Czinger 21C.
SAE: What OEMs are you working with today?
Czinger: Aston Martin is now a large customer and I
was just in the U.K. and I got to watch our rear frame
structure. Visualize 16 large, printed parts assembled
into the rear frame of the vehicle - installed on their
assembly line into a customer car.
We also work with Mercedes AMG doing large
structures. We have about seven other large European
OEMs for which we are doing everything from control
arms to front frames and rear frames. For some of
them, we are even looking at the full chassis now.
We also work in aerospace and defense doing surveillance-drone
structures. General Atomics is the first
company we started working with. For something like
a small UAS (Unmanned Aerial System), instead of
taking years to develop a design, [using additive manufacturing]
takes months, and instead of taking weeks
to manufacture by laying out carbon fiber, we take
hours to assemble.
SAE: What are the key advantages of DAPS?
Czinger:The one at the very top is we'll make a structure
that can absorb crash energy as well as the structure
the OEM is currently using - but ours is thirty- to
forty-percent lighter.
Time savings is a critical advantage. We don't have
a prototype process. You're never doing soft tooling or
AUTOMOTIVE ENGINEERING
a mockup. Our first unit is a production unit. Time to get that first
part, even for a complex structure, is six to eight months; OEMs are
used to 18 to 30 months for chassis development. Lower development
costs and faster development times get an OEM into the market
more quickly.
Internally, one of our main objectives is how quickly we can design
from scratch something like a vehicle chassis and then get it into production.
We'd like it to come down from months to days. That's going
to become incredibly radical for the auto industry. You're talking
about multiple magnitudes of time savings.
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