Does anyone know if any progress has been made with the GM plant in Louisiana? Have they begun fitting it for producing a new vehicle yet? Seems like that would take a quite a while to do.
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You can register using your Google, Facebook, or Twitter account, just click here.No the VP told me they were still tooling the plant and prob wouldn't start production till around October or November .
This is what Paul Elio said Nov 10th We have access to the facility now. We should have people on site in the next few weeks starting to evaluate where to move what equipment. Pre-production should start 60 days before our target production date in December.
Elio Motors had posted this prior -Elio Motors We have posted before a number of times, the design of the factory, the design and engineering of the Elio are all being done in MI..so you won't see much activity at the factory until we are ready to order the hard tooling. Otherwise, people would be standing around down there doing nothing ... the first of the new prototypes will be out in Jan of 2014 and retooling of the plant should be sometime in the summer or 2014 after they do a true market study ...
(Volume is dependent on tooling … and you don’t decide that until you have a solid idea of what the yearly demand might be. Right now, demand looks to be very strong, but we need a good market study to have a better idea.)