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Newt talks with Kevin Czinger, lead inventor, Founder, and Executive Chairman of Czinger Vehicles and its parent company, Divergent Technologies about his recent visit to the Divergent 3D factory in Torrance, California. They discuss Czinger's impressive background, from his working-class roots in Ohio to his achievements in football, military service, and law. Czinger shares his journey from Yale Law School to becoming a Deputy US Attorney and later joining Goldman Sachs. He explains his transition to founding Coda Automotive and eventually Divergent Technologies, focusing on sustainable production systems. Their conversation highlights Divergent's innovative manufacturing process, which integrates AI, 3D printing, and robotics to create advanced, lightweight structures for various industries, including automotive and aerospace. Czinger also discusses the development of the Czinger 21C, the world's fastest street-legal hypercar, and the potential of Divergent's technology to revolutionize the aerospace and defense industries.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Scott Kerr sits down with Lukas Czinger, founder, president and CEO of American hypercar manufacturer Czinger Vehicles. Founded along with his father Kevin Czinger in 2019, Lukas discusses how their 3D-printed '21C' hypercar is catalyzing a new age of designing and building cars. He also talks about why Czinger launched with a $2 million hypercar in an already saturated market, smashing production car lap records, targeting ultra-wealthy owners, and how Czinger positions itself against iconic luxury car brands with illustrious racing histories. Plus: Could its proprietary Divergent Adaptive Production System (DAPS) be used to manufacture luxury goods?Featuring: Lukas Czinger, Founder, President and CEO of Czinger Vehicles (czinger.com) Host:Scott Kerr, Founder & President of Silvertone ConsultingAbout The Luxury Item podcast:The Luxury Item is a podcast on the business of luxury and the people and companies that are shaping the future of the luxury industry.Stay Connected:Email: scott@silvertoneconsulting.comListen and subscribe to The Luxury Item wherever you get your podcasts. Tell a friend or colleague!

Kevin Czinger, an automaker based in Los Angeles, and his son Lucas are introducing 3D printing to create digital manufacturing for vehicles that will change how we make cars and save the environment. Reporter | Camera | Editor: Genia Dulot

Kevin Czinger joins Helen to kick off the third season of Zero Pressure. Kevin is the founder, lead inventor and CEO of Divergent 3D, a company that uses some of the world's most advanced methods of design and additive manufacturing (that's 3D printing) to build vehicle structures. The Zero Pressure podcast series looks at how science and technology positively can contribute to solving complex, interrelated global challenges of today and tomorrow. We look at pioneering technologies and speak to those on the thinking edge. Zero Pressure is a podcast from Imperial College London and Saab. A relaxed conversation with those on the cutting edge of science and technology - hosted by Britain's first astronaut Helen Sharman - Presented by Imperial College London and Saab.

When the US Centre for Advanced Manufacturing launched in June, Cynthia Hutchison, the Head of the Centre, met up with me and Kevin Czinger, CEO of Divergent3D/Czinger Vehicles. Czinger is simply a phenomenon. He comes from a proud family of mechanics and drag racers in Cleveland who influenced his interests at an early age, and encouraged him to become a voracious reader. Kevin burst onto the scene from there. A lifelong learner at Yale, he received undergraduate and advanced degrees in biophysics, biochemistry, and electrical engineering at Yale and Arizona State. Afterward, Czinger cofounded a successful EV battery manufacturing company in California. “When first researching how to transform an internal combustion engine vehicle into an EV, Czinger realized, “I spent more on the conversion of that car than all the capital that we spent on technology development for that car.” Although uni-body construction systems were automated, they were also analog and not optimized. Czinger points out, “It's still the architecture of a fundamental analog system and here we have an industry being digitized everywhere except at its core.”Czinger knew he needed to figure out digital assembly to create an entirely new factory model and digital manufacturing system. So he did! Inspired by Kelly Johnson's pioneering work as the first team leader at Lockheed Skunkworks, Czinger shares his own gripping story. A blank slate, seven years, over 500+ distinct patents, and over $400M in invested capital, his 3D printed high performance C21 HyperCar just beat the McLaren P1 at the Laguna Seca Roadway by 6 seconds/ As Hutchison insightfully suggests during their multi-episode podcast, the two common ways people respond to this kind of massive disruption are through the lens of fear or opportunity. Czinger is clearly one of the latter-- a generational visionary who is leveraging his voracious American-born competitiveness to bring innovative technologies to scale. And Hutchison is equally passionate about bringing thought leaders together as she launches programming for the Centre. The US Centre for Advanced Manufacturing is a proud sponsor of DisruptED Advanced Manufacturing. As Hutchison shares, “We want to shine a light on advanced manufacturing here in the US.” It is electrifying listening to these two firsthand as Kevin's digital manufacturing system launches, as the world watches and takes notice.

When the US Centre for Advanced Manufacturing launched in June, Cynthia Hutchison, the Head of the Centre, met up with me and Kevin Czinger, CEO of Divergent3D & Czinger Vehicles.Czinger is simply a phenomenon. He comes from a proud family of mechanics and drag racers in Cleveland who influenced his interests at an early age, and encouraged him to become a voracious reader. Kevin burst onto the scene from there. A lifelong learner at Yale, he received undergraduate and advanced degrees in biophysics, biochemistry, and electrical engineering at Yale and Arizona State. Afterward, Czinger cofounded a successful EV battery manufacturing company in California. “When first researching how to transform an internal combustion engine vehicle into an EV, Czinger realized, “I spent more on the conversion of that car than all the capital that we spent on technology development for that car.” Although uni-body construction systems were automated, they were also analog and not optimized. Czinger points out, “It's still the architecture of a fundamental analog system and here we have an industry being digitized everywhere except at its core.”Czinger knew he needed to figure out digital assembly to create an entirely new factory model and digital manufacturing system. So he did! Inspired by Kelly Johnson's pioneering work as the first team leader at Lockheed Skunkworks, Czinger shares his own gripping story. A blank slate, seven years, over 500+ distinct patents, and over $400M in invested capital, his 3D printed high performance C21 HyperCar just beat the McLaren P1 at the Laguna Seca Roadway by 6 seconds/ As Hutchison insightfully suggests during their multi-episode podcast, the two common ways people respond to this kind of massive disruption are through the lens of fear or opportunity. Czinger is clearly one of the latter-- a generational visionary who is leveraging his voracious American-born competitiveness to bring innovative technologies to scale. And Hutchison is equally passionate about bringing thought leaders together as she launches programming for the Centre. The US Centre for Advanced Manufacturing is a proud sponsor of DisruptED Advanced Manufacturing. As Hutchison shares, “We want to shine a light on advanced manufacturing here in the US.” It is electrifying listening to these two firsthand as Kevin's digital manufacturing system launches, as the world watches and takes notice.

Show Notes:  Groundbreaking heart disease treatment uses ultrasound-assisted lasers | Brighter Side News (01:21) Atherosclerosis, a buildup of plaque, can lead to heart disease, artery disease, and chronic kidney disease and is traditionally treated by inserting and inflating a balloon to expand the artery.  Rohit Singh, of the University of Kansas, and other researchers developed a method that combines a low-power laser with ultrasound to remove arterial plaque safely and efficiently.  High-power laser treatments direct thermal energy to vaporize water in the artery and create a vapor bubble, which expands and collapses to break the plaque. The addition of irradiation from ultrasound causes the microbubbles to expand, collapse, and disrupt the plaque. Singh talks about the combo of laser treatment with ultrasounds:“In conventional laser angioplasty, a high laser power is required for the entire cavitation process, whereas in our technology, a lower laser power is only required for initiating the cavitation process … Overall, the combination of ultrasound and laser reduces the need for laser power and improves the efficiency of atherosclerotic plaque removal." Because it destroys rather than compresses the plaque, the combination technique will have a lower restenosis rate, or re-narrowing of the artery, compared to balloon angioplasty or stenting.Restenosis occurs when an artery that was opened with a stent or angioplasty becomes narrowed again. Singh and collaborators are also using the methodology for photo-mediated ultrasound therapy and ultrasound-assisted endovascular laser thrombolysis. Former can be used to remove abnormal microvessels in the eye to prevent blindness The latter can dissolve blood clots in veins.   Locusts can 'smell' human cancer cells | Futurity (05:54) Researchers, at Michigan State University, have shown that locusts can not only “smell” the difference between cancer cells and healthy cells, but they can also distinguish between different cancer cell lines.This work could provide the basis for devices that use insect sensory neurons to enable the early detection of cancer using only a patient's breath. The success of engineered devices can make it easy to overlook the performance of our natural tools, especially the sense organ right in front of our eyes.Why we trust dogs and their super-sniffers to detect telltale smells of drugs, and explosives Scientists are working on technology that can mimic the sense of smell, but nothing they've engineered can yet compete with the speed, sensitivity and specificity of old-fashioned biological olfaction.Olfaction: The sense of smell. Why not start with the solutions biology has already built after eons of evolution, and engineer from there? The research team is essentially “hacking” the insect brain to use it for disease diagnosis. Easily attach electrodes to locust brains The scientists then recorded the insects' responses to gas samples produced by healthy cells and cancer cells, and then used those signals to create chemical profiles of the different cells. How well could the locusts differentiate healthy cells from cancer cells using three different oral cancer cell lines?According to Christopher Contag, the director of IQ, “We expected that the cancer cells would appear different than the normal cells … But when the bugs could distinguish three different cancers from each other, that was amazing.” Although the team's results focused on cancers of the mouth, the researchers believe their system would work with any cancer that introduces volatile metabolites into breath, which is likely most cancer types. In biochemistry, a metabolite is an intermediate or end product of metabolism. The term metabolite is usually used for small molecules.  Let's end it off with a quote from Contag about early detection:“Early detection is so important, and we should use every possible tool to get there, whether it's engineered or provided to us by millions of years of natural selection … If we're successful, cancer will be a treatable disease.”   Scientists create first full map of human immune system connectivity | New Atlas (11:15) By using advanced screening methods to tune into the communications taking place between individual cells, scientists have produced the first full connectivity map of the human immune system.Will help researchers better understand the way different disease such as cancer progress, and work towards next-generation treatments Researchers at the Wellcome Sanger Institute and ETH Zurich have been working to establish a more comprehensive diagram of the immune system throughout the body. The breakthrough stems from new understanding of the signaling that takes place between different immune cells.Some of these patrol the body looking for signs of injury or disease, and then send messages to other immune cells to join the fight. Communication takes place through proteins on the surface of immune cells, which bind to receptor proteins on the surfaces of other cells. Mapping involved a technique called high-throughput surface receptor screening, which allowed them to map immune cell protein interactions on an unprecedented scale. This wiring diagram details how immune cells connect and communicate throughout the body and includes previously unknown interactions. Valuable insights into the way the body organizes its immune defenses,  May help efforts to develop treatments that increase their ability to fight disease, with immunotherapy for cancer a prime example. Additionally, it could offer a blueprint for the prevention and treatment of autoimmune diseases Let's end it off with a quote from Professor Gavin Wright, senior author, discussing the research:“Immunotherapies work with the body's immune system to combat diseases such as cancer and autoimmunity… They can be incredibly effective in certain groups of people, but not all, leaving some people without treatment. Our research, a culmination of over two decades of work, could hold the key to understanding why these treatments are more effective in some groups, and how they could be adapted to ensure that as many people as possible can benefit from them.”   Flying car 'Switchblade' with foldable wings and a retractable tail gets FAA approval | Interesting Engineering (15:46) A flying sports car named Switchblade recently passed the safety tests of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), and now it is ready for market launch. Oregon-based company Samson Sky claims it took 14 years to develop this innovative vehicle.  Can be easily parked inside a residential garage, and it is suitable for both roadside driving and flying. Not the first to receive approval from the FAA, but it might become the first flying car available to the public in the US.Already started taking online reservations for Switchblade, and over 1,600 people have already shown interest in buying the car.  The estimated starting price for Switchblade would be $150,000. The features of the Switchblade:Three-wheeler sports car that comes with foldable wings and a retractable tail Within three minutes, these flexible components can turn this roadside vehicle into a small aircraft Capable of flying at 16,000 feet (4.8 km) The top speed of this two-seater flying machine ranges between 125 mph (201 km/h) (on-road) and 200 mph (321 km/h) (during flight). Runs on 91 octane gasoline The official website of Samson Sky mentions that the car comes equipped with a hybrid electric drive and fly system, a climate-controlled cabin, front and rear crumple zones, and a parachute that covers the whole vehicle to ensure complete comfort and safety of its users. For instance, the vehicle has been approved by the FAA, but that only means that Samson Sky can sell this vehicle. Buyers might still need to get permission from local authorities before they drive or fly Switchblade for the first time since it is not an ordinary vehicle. Another difficulty, the Switchblade is a flying vehicle, and there is no company in the US that offers flying car insurance.Insurance laws in most American states require drivers to carry active vehicle insurance with them. Switchblade buyers might need to buy both car and aircraft insurance. What's interesting about this is that Switchblade isn't the only flying car that is ready to launch.  Real Flying Cars That Will Soon Take Flight There are companies working on this, and it would be fascinating to see which of them we see first on the road. List by Interesting Engineering of 14 other flying cars being developed:   Czinger's 3D-Printed 21C Hypercar Could Spark an Automaking Revolution | Robb Report (22:00) The $2 million, carbon-fiber-bodied, tandem-seat Czinger 21C astounds with specs—1,250 hp, zero to 62 mph in 1.9 seconds, a claimed top speed of 253 mphRecently blew away the McLaren P1's production-car track record at Circuit of the Americas by six seconds. However, more impressive is the hybrid's build process: The main structural components are designed by Czinger's proprietary AI software and then 3-D-printed.Co-founder Kevin Czinger, stated: “These structures cannot be made more perfect for the requirements inputted … You could have 1,000 engineers and they would never get to this solution.” Figuring out how to put these “perfect Lego blocks” together was tasked to Lukas Czinger, Kevin's son, who invented a fixtureless assembly systemNo part-specific fixture or tooling required to hold pieces in place during the robotic build. Additionally, the polymer team created an adhesive that bonded in under two seconds.The result is a 22-robot cell that doesn't have to be retooled from one application to another, meaning the same hardware can transition from creating a rear frame to a full chassis with only a software change—a potentially revolutionary new approach to manufacturing.

Kevin Czinger is the founder, lead inventor and CEO of Divergent Technologies.  He founded Divergent to revolutionize car manufacturing by inventing and deploying an end-to-end digital production system, thereby catalyzing and leading the global manufacturing transition from analog to digital production.  Divergent 3D's patented manufacturing platform radically reduces the materials, energy, and capital needed to build a car as well as accelerating innovation.  It was named Google's Solve for X "Moonshot" for its disruptive impact on global transportation and awarded the Petersen Automotive Museum's inaugural Award for Innovation and Leadership. Prior to Divergent 3D, Czinger co-founded Coda Automotive, an all-electric car company with vehicles fully safety certified for the U.S., Chinese and European markets. Czinger was also an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Benchmark Capital and an investor and operating executive in private and public technology companies.  Early in his career, he served as an Executive Director of Goldman Sachs in Asia and Europe, where he focused on technology and telecom growth investments.  Czinger is a graduate of Yale University and serves Yale as a Sterling Fellow, a Member of the President's International Advisory Council and a Board Member of the Jackson Institute for World Affairs.    [RECORDING DATE: June 23, 2021]

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Kevin Czinger is the founder and CEO of Czinger, a 3D-printed hypercar. The CZinger 21C is offered with 1,233HP hybrid powertrain, weighs less than 3,000lbs, and goes 0-60MPH in 1.9s. The Czinger 21 in insanely light, thanks to its use of carbon fiber, titanium, and inconel parts, many of which are created n 3D printers. The technology allows CZinger to create parts that are strong, light, and unique in shape.See their cars here: https://www.czinger.com/about-21-cFollow us! Ti: @thesmokingtire @zackklapmanIG: @thesmokingtire @fakezackklapmanWatch the show on  YouTube: https://youtu.be/R6DzNVzRg5g

Kevin Czinger is the founder and CEO of Czinger, a 3D-printed hypercar. The CZinger 21C is offered with 1,233HP hybrid powertrain, weighs less than 3,000lbs, and goes 0-60MPH in 1.9s. The Czinger 21 in insanely light, thanks to its use of carbon fiber, titanium, and inconel parts, many of which are created n 3D printers. The technology allows CZinger to create parts that are strong, light, and unique in shape.See their cars here: https://www.czinger.com/about-21-cFollow us! Ti: @thesmokingtire @zackklapmanIG: @thesmokingtire @fakezackklapmanWatch the show on  YouTube: https://youtu.be/y4TQHczzPnU

Divergent, the Los Angeles-based startup aiming to revolutionize vehicle manufacturing, has cut about one-third of its staff amid the COVID-19 pandemic that has upended startups and major corporations alike. The company, which employed about 160 people, laid off 57 workers, according to documents filed with the California Employment Development Department. Founder and CEO Kevin Czinger […]

John gets in depth with Kevin Czinger of Divergent 3D about the changes coming to the auto industry, the power of advanced design and the necessary changes in manufacturing processes that need to happen.

Today we are spotlighting Kevin Czinger of Divergent 3D. Divergent 3D is revolutionizing car manufacturing through 3d printing. This episode is powered by Refill Fuel, https://www.refillfuel.com/ (use promo code “wearelatech”) a concierge gas service that helps you and your employees save time and money through wholesale gas prices and on site fuel delivery. Connect with us at wearelatech.com/podcast and tweet @WeAreLATech and @EspreeDevora. What is your ask from the community? We hope that the hardware startups think about the impact we're going to have in the world for the long term. http://www.divergent3d.com/ http://twitter.com/womenintechshow https://twitter.com/espreedevora

3D printing automotive micro-factories (not electric vehicles) might be the key to sustainability and innovation. We learn why, from the CEO of Divergent 3D. Plus, the head of SME gives some hints on what to expect at WESTEC next week! Sometimes we get trapped by a legacy way of doing things. We've built 2 billion vehicles in the last century, and some estimates project another 6 billion cars in the next 35 years. These cars will have an enormous impact on the environment. So, should we aim to switch all of our vehicles to electric? Not so fast, says Kevin Czinger, the Founder of Divergent 3D. It's more complicated than that. Divergent 3D is a micro-factory for building cars using 3D printing. I was curious to hear how it works and how he plans to scale the concept. We learn how a Midwestern boy, from a family that never went to college, ended up doing global deals for Rupert Murdoch and helping launch one of the most ambitious internet startups of the 1990's, and how that experience translated into the audacity to start a car factory! But this isn't his first car venture. We learn how he's coming back with a vengeance after he parted ways with his investors, and what he learned from the process. He also tells us what it was like to ride in his new concept car with Jay Leno behind the wheel. For show notes, visit http://makeitinla.org/kevinczinger and http://makeitinla.org/jeffkrause Attend the WESTEC conference on September 12-14 for free as a friend of The Art of Manufacturing, visit here. (Get invited to future events at http://makeitinla.org/connect)  The views expressed on The Art of Manufacturing podcast are those of the guests, and not our sponsors or partners.  

On the show this week we explore the future of 3D Printing. To do so, Indre goes to SolidCon—a conference about “Hardware, Software & the Internet of Things”—and talks to people from two companies in attendance: Will Walker, a sculptor, designer, and educator from Formlabs and Kevin Czinger, the founder and CEO of Divergent Microfactories, Inc.iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/inquiring-minds/id711675943RSS: feeds.feedburner.com/inquiring-mindsStitcher: stitcher.com/podcast/inquiring-mindsTumblr: http://inquiringshow.tumblr.com