Elio Crowdfunding

[zarquon]

Welcome Evarance, I was just checking that out yesterday and counted ABOUT 2,520 want-a-be- investors, about 11am. So sad, but then again maybe they will count them for us.

I too was tracking the numbers closely and later that day, perhaps within a few hours, I counted about 2600 investors. It seemed to be growing fast and steadily. I wonder about the progress bar, it doesn't seem to be moving as much as I would suppose it might. In fact it appears to be static over the past couple days. I would guess it represents the fraction of pledged investment relative to the full 50 million as I wouldn't suppose there is a limit on the number of pledges. I should just ask them.

 

[Jim H]

I would suspect that the 2600 investors that first appeared would be the "low hanging fruit" or those of us who are very familiar with Elio and have a reservation (at any level). It may be more difficult to get the uninformed public involved unless there is some strong and aggressive public relations effort. If you don't know about the Elio opportunity you certainly can't take advantage of it. Elio needs to find a way to get more positive exposure

 

[AriLea]

Hell, they can't even make a decently effective battery for smart phones and tablets yet. Battery technology is lagging far behind other technologies

The EV discussion probably should move to another thread. It's pretty much a thing of the nebulous future and Elio as a technology is more of a right-now thing. Elio did say, if it makes sense they consider it. So fi EV tech ever 'get's there' Elio will too.

 

[Neal]

The EV discussion probably should move to another thread. It's pretty much a thing of the nebulous future and Elio as a technology is more of a right-now thing. Elio did say, if it makes sense they consider it. So fi EV tech ever 'get's there' Elio will too.

noted. Sorry

 

[AriLea]

noted. Sorry

Hey, NP! But it's always nice to take action so I did this... (link) Go here to dream the EV dream

 

[Rickb]

It's all nebulous. My dream is a "Phony Electric" Elio. (Conversion)

 

[John Painter]

EVs will become more affordable and accepted by the public over time as battery technology gets the range anxiety issue resolved.

And less expensive and cheaper alternatives to EV are created.

 

[WilliamH]

EVs will become more affordable and accepted by the public over time as battery technology gets the range anxiety issue resolved.

If all I did was cruise around town and try to impress people with my environmental credentials and net worth I think they would be just fine. However, I want to be able to get in my vehicle and go visit my friends on the east coast. That's not anxiety. That's just pure fact. The EV won't get the job done.

 

[userexec]

Looks like the funding on startengine is going really smoothly. I had to pull it into a graphics editor to get a better look at what the progress is, but they're definitely over 1/5 of the way there now. At the current rate they should be at 1/4 in two or three days. I expect a big jump next weekend (late 2nd - 5th) due to a very smart move with Paul doing an AMA on Reddit soon. That should not only hit an audience that's very open to crowdfunding but also result in articles on the many sites that get their content by scraping whatever's popular out of Reddit.

 

[userexec]

If all I did was cruise around town and try to impress people with my environmental credentials and net worth I think they would be just fine. However, I want to be able to get in my vehicle and go visit my friends on the east coast. That's not anxiety. That's just pure fact. The EV won't get the job done.

I love the idea of an EV, but this is exactly why I'm still not considering one as my next car. It would have to be an "and" car, because while I wouldn't need that range all the time, I would need it once every two months or so to go visit my family, and that's a longer drive than a charge will currently do. I'd rent a car before I'd get stuck for hours in a Starbucks tapping my fingers for a couple of hours.

I have no doubt they'll get to the point where that's no longer a problem, and even make it to the point where they're more cost-effective over time than an average gasoline-powered car, but even then they'd still have to top the Elio's cost-effectiveness. Even as fast as technology is, I just don't see that happening in five years.