This Is Going To Be The Death Of Us!

[LockMD]

Jeff P., catch me up. They're contemplating a P5? Whatcha know on it?

Was told today, there will be no P5.

 

[goofyone]

Was told today, there will be no P5.

Oh no, not this again.

Just wondering, did you hear this directly from Jerome Vassallo or from someone else?

The biggest reason why I ask is that the tour people have been telling visitors this for a while however we have had it confirmed directly by Elio VP Jerome Vassallo that a P5 is necessary as it will be used for final verification testing and tooling measurements before the rest of the E series builds. We have also been told that the official tour answer is no P5 to avoid confusion over what is happening.

Personally I have taken to labeling this vehicle in my notes as the P5/E0 as I believe it is ultimately both the P5 and the first E series build however I am sure EM would like to avoid that kind of confusion.

 

[Music Man]

We are 16-18 months away from getting our cars. There are 2000 members on this site. Say 20 (10%) are very active. Monitoring all of the posts through the feed, responding to posts and questions, starting new threads, etc... 18 months at this intensity level is going to kill me! I can't soak up enough of this information! I monitor at work, I check the feeds when I get home. A couple of times in the evening and weekends. Before I go to bed.

I'm doomed...

WOW! Worse than a bad case of chigger bites. Sounds like the "bug" got you real quick! o_O

 

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Must... Resist... Will... Not... Bite...

 

[Kary]

I feel the same way! I've even contemplated how effective it would be to organize "work groups" to travel to Shreveport and help get this thing going faster. I'd be willing to take a weeks vacation if I though it would help. From a pool of over 30,000 reservation holders we could surely get some volunteers. I'm not an auto manufacturing production assembly person but I've worked construction all of my life and I know that it can be very helpful to have folks cleaning up/sweeping floors/mowing the grass...anything to speed up the process. My mind can be a dangerous place...

Brilliant actually! Especially if they would give incentive to do so. Say...for "x" volunteer work hrs, free upgrade to leather seats, etc...

 

[zelio]

Brilliant actually! Especially if they would give incentive to do so. Say...for "x" volunteer work hrs, free upgrade to leather seats, etc...

I have always understood that volunteering meant doing whatever it is because you love the project, idea, whatever. I get my "reimbursement" from the good feelings I get for doing whatever it is. My thesaurus agrees with that concept. Anything else is barter and is therefore taxable. Just thought you might like to know that little bit of trivia. Although if you are expecting free upgrade to leather seats for "volunteering", probably not. :-) Z

 

[Rickb]

Brilliant actually! Especially if they would give incentive to do so. Say...for "x" volunteer work hrs, free upgrade to leather seats, etc...

Elio would be time& $ ahead to use salaried employees over volunteer labor........so they can boss them around and then there is the dreaded liability factor of non-employees working in a manufacturing plant environment.

 

[eddie66]

Brilliant actually! Especially if they would give incentive to do so. Say...for "x" volunteer work hrs, free upgrade to leather seats, etc...

I would gladly pay for your leather seat upgrade if you mow my lawn until Elio's production date.

 

[goldwing06]

Elio would be time& $ ahead to use salaried employees over volunteer labor........so they can boss them around and then there is the dreaded liability factor of non-employees working in a manufacturing plant environment.

when u watch eaa volunteer labor build an airplane in one week during oshkosh air adventure, that flies just like all the other models that have been built previously, i can 't see a problem if all participants signed a wavier of liability before starting work. the majority of volunteers would be somewhat savy at turning a wrench or working around power tools. i would have no reservations about myself being able to work on any phase of the assembly line process and turning out a top notch product.

 

[NSTG8R]

when u watch eaa volunteer labor build an airplane in one week during oshkosh air adventure, that flies just like all the other models that have been built previously, i can 't see a problem if all participants signed a wavier of liability before starting work. the majority of volunteers would be somewhat savy at turning a wrench or working around power tools. i would have no reservations about myself being able to work on any phase of the assembly line process and turning out a top notch product.

Have to go with goldwing on this one. Volunteers would be more motivated/excited to be there...that's why they volunteered. Happy workers are productive workers. It would take a little time to discover their skill levels, and place them in the tasks that matched, but then it'd be "let's get it done!", instead of "Crap! Is it Monday already?" Maybe. Maybe not.