Below is the text version of the video Printing a Car: A Team Effort in Innovation highlighting the demonstration of 3D printing to create a working electric vehicle, live during the International Manufacturing Technology Show 2014 in Chicago, Illinois.

Voiceover: Every day, the Advanced Manufacturing Office at the Department of Energy is working hard to build cooperative partnerships that accelerate innovation for American manufacturing. 

On-screen: text reading, "U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy, Advanced Manufacturing Office".

Voiceover: In early 2014, AMO looked to its Manufacturing Demonstration Facility at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee to collaborate on a revolutionary project that would display how 3D printing has come of age. 

On-screen: footage of large additive manufacturing machines printing out layers of the car.

Voiceover: No longer just a table top novelty, 3D printing has moved from prototypes to the real factory floor.  

Jay Rogers, CEO and Co-Founder of Local Motors: The 3D printed car project was really an outgrowth out of a team that was put together to take on a very difficult challenge.

Lonnie Love, Manufacturing Demonstration Facility, Oak Ridge National Laboratory: This was a Manhattan-style project. We had six months to develop a technology to print out a car.

Mark Johnson, Director, Advanced Manufacturing Office, Department of Energy: This is one of those moments where they came up and said, “We’ve set a big goal”  and they set the goal. They said, “failure is not an option on this. We aren’t sure how we are going to get there; we know that it is possible to get there.”

Rob Ivester, Deputy Director, Advanced Manufacturing Office, Department of Energy: We’re seeing large-scale additive manufacturing well beyond the scope and scale of anything that’s ever been done before.

Rick Neff, Manager of Market Development, Cincinnati, Incorporated: It’s been an incredibly fast pace of innovation. Normally a machine tool would take several years to develop.

Craig Blue, Director, Manufacturing Demonstration Facility, Oak Ridge National Laboratory: This is probably the most aggressive timescale I’ve ever seen in the evolution of a new product.

On screen: Images of CAD drawings of the car, digital renderings of the final product, and the additive manufacturing machine in action printing the final product.

Voiceover:  It’s hard to believe that by fall, this amazing team effort would succeed in designing and printing a working electric car.”

Lonnie Love: The main message of this project is we can be very, very fast – six months to radically change how we manufacture cars.  It shows the real benefit of having these public-private partnerships – so this project wouldn’t have been possible without AMO’s support.

Craig Blue: And this is a new entry of a U.S.-based additive manufacturing company, so it’s a very exciting time.

Voiceover: The industry partners were: Cincinnati Incorporated, a 115-year old industrial machine manufacturer in Ohio and a Local Motors in Arizona, an innovative small manufacturer specializing in crowdsourced design and engineering. The challenge was to develop a large scale additive manufacturing machine using carbon fiber reinforced plastic to print the car.

Rick Neff: The collaboration to build this car is an incredible group of talent.  We’ve got some of the best design capability in the world through the open source design platform that Local Motors brings to the project.  We’ve got some of the best minds in additive manufacturing in the world at Oak Ridge National Lab’s MDF.  And we’ve got one of the best machine tool builders in the world at Cincinnati Incorporated.

Rob Ivester:  By bringing the different partners together as part of the ecosystem, getting them all under one roof and working together as one team, we’re going to see barriers to innovation dropping left and right.

Jay Rogers: But, it is a partnership that is based in risk taking.

Voiceover: For all the participants in the September manufacturing demonstration, the significance of what happened, live, layer by layer, in front of tens of thousands of people in Chicago, cannot be overstated.

Jay Rogers: This team understood that it was bigger than just 3D printing.  It was about direct digital manufacturing. So, to them, they were willing to combine the additive manufacturing that was being built by on the Cincinnati machine and the subtractive manufacturing that’s being done by the large-scale router, and the way in which we are putting these parts together from various component players - that whole ecosystem made it possible to make it on time.

Rob Ivester: I think this 3D printed car project really demonstrates the beauty and the power of bringing together disparate elements from a variety of domains.

Mark Johnson:  The partners here have people coming up and saying, “How do I move this into production in 2014?” That’s pretty practical.

Rick Neff: There’s an incredible amount of technology and expertise involved our national labs, and our national labs are a really good way to get involved and bring that to small industry to help small business become more competitive.

Mark Johnson: The U.S. manufacturing sector is the most innovative and productive manufacturing sector in the world. It’s really exciting to see this injection of new technology, and take that to the next level.

Craig Blue: This is rapid innovation. This is the way it should be done.

On screen: Time-lapse of the car being printed; shots of the final detailing including partner logos; and video of the car being driven and displayed. 

Voiceover: What is the true value of government investments in advanced manufacturing? A future that is sustainable, energy-efficient, powered by innovation, and American-made.