Triangles and hexagons are used because they're the cheapest to manufacture, but these organic looking shapes have actually the best strength/weight ratios. The only downside is cost. There have been numerous examples where shapes like this ended up being used in production

I thought it looked badass

They showed in the video that the part would be manufactured with SLM printing and would have CNC machined mating faces. The technology may not be totally mainstream yet but it's totally possible.

@@breedsma agreed, what do you wager the cost to be? I feel like submitting for a quote somewhere lol, just to see

@@jbruell94 I couldn't say, I work in a lab that provides custom printing services at my university but we don't have an SLM printer, and I don't know much about actual industry costs for SLM. I'm curious about it too, though.

you have to mold it right on it :D

Yes, and the chain forces are much larger than the suspension loads for a powerful bike.

largest number of people from ev industry using AI will be using it for the same reason,

can't wait, then we can store solar and wind energy efficiently 🙂@@TheBhumbak

@@TerragonCFD AI isn't a magic wand you can wave to eliminate the limits of physics. At most it can optimise and make more efficient.

we don't need AI, we need a breakthrough or a new tech, you can only optimise so much with li-ion

That's what i meant...@@neolordie

get the design from somewhere, get it printed with the material it is design for

If you can find a machine shop to 3d print it. the actual design in Fusion is only a few clicks.

It's not AI, actually. These are optimization algorithms that take a set of weights about desirable characteristics, a few constraints, start from an initial state, and then iterate following some rules, choosing to go to the next step that does not violate the constraints and that scores the most, given the weights. It's a completely "mechanical" procedure that could ben done by hand, except for the fact that the number of cells and the number of iterations would take an eternity to humans to complete. Thus, it is something that's made pratical by the presence of computers that are powerful enough. That was true already more than a few years ago, but back then there was another impracticality: CNC machining these parts costed too much, and in some situations CNC isn't even an option since there are parts of the design that are unreachable - thus, you would like to print the component, and that was not a thing until recently.