There's nothing unusual about a father and son building a car together, but Kevin and Lukas Czinger are taking it to the next level, as Lukas told C/D in this interview.
Automotive history is full of family trees, some more successful than others. While passing the torch from founder to foundling is not uncommon, Kevin and Lukas Czinger are doing it differently, creating and running a car company together.
I studied electrical engineering, and I have always loved cars, I love building things. I thought what he was talking about sounded pretty cool. So I called him after and said, "Hey, how about I come work for you." And he said, "Are you sure? This is early stage startup. There aren't even 10 people in it."
There's kind of three pillars to Divergent. There is the software side, which is how we design the parts. And we've got a software team that has written natural source code for our own optimization, our own design software, and then assembly.We tie some in, but the core optimization is our own. We'll still use an LS-DYNA [structural analysis software] or a Radioss for crash simulation.
When I came in to Divergent, we hadn't developed that third part. We needed to make an assembly system that was not design specific, that can take any number of 3D printed parts and do structural assembly that's going to be automotive and aerospace grade. We can do the 21C frame one day and directly after do an OEM piece for a client, and then an Aston Martin frame, and then a defense piece, all on the same hardware.
When did you decide to do a hypercar? How did you go from this experimental manufacturing process to, "You know what, let's go up against McLaren"? We thought through many different options, many different situations. In the end, you have to pick something that you also operationally believe you can deliver on. And trying to go after something that's hyper volume, hundreds of thousands, millions of units as a company at our scale, it's just not a business plan that's sustainable.
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