Bentley is offering real 3D-printed gold for its W-12 Batur, and it’s more than just putting the lavish metal on the fastest car in their 103 year history.
, too. It will be limited to some touch pieces within the interior like the Charisma Dial , Organ Stop vent controls, and the insert marker on the steering wheel. In all, the amount of gold used comes in at 210 grams of the yellow colored metal.There are two additional points of interest in the use of 3D-printed gold, outside the idea of creating one very lavish cabin for the Batur.and is used by OEMs when making a part is not possible with standard CNC machining and metal casting processes.
A common method of 3D-printing is the extrusion method, as some metals can be printed using a metal and polymer mixture . This would also mean you're not working with a pure metal to create your part. The best method of printing pure gold is through Direct Metal Laser Sintering .This process takes a fine powder of a metal and fuses it layer by layer to"print" the part you're making. Not only does this mean you're printing without the need for a second binding material , the other advantage is that you can reuse unused powder, but also use recycled metal waste from machining.
In the case of the gold that Bentley is using, it comes from recycled from old jewelry that was ground into a fine powder. This means that no newly-mined or minted gold was used to create the parts in the Batur, keeping with Bentley's goals of sustainability and becoming end-to-end carbon neutral by 2030.
Earlier this year, Bentley also invested nearly $3,656,000 into additive manufacturing in the hopes to create even more bespoke personalization and help in low-volume manufacturing, like making gold pieces on other limited release Bentley models. We can't wait to see what else Bentley—and its owners—come up with when the sky is the limit.
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