Observed arrival · 2026-09-01
Aspire’s metre-scale 3D-printed battery packs
A Horizon Europe project developing continuous-fibre additive manufacturing for lightweight, recyclable electric-vehicle battery-pack structures.
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Fiber Drive combines purpose-built slicer software with six-axis, metre-scale printing hardware to deposit continuous glass-fibre thermoplastic directly from computer-aided engineering data. The consortium assigns distinct roles for the pack cover, structural tray, OEM integration, lifecycle assessment, industrialisation, recycling, and certification. The homepage also frames the work around cross-OEM reconfigurability, with named validation involvement from Volvo and Stellantis.
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