Too Optomistic?

[eliio21783]

From a previous thread: " they are going to start one production line at 70% capacity or 350 Elio a day for 45 days."

SO, the pre-production 100 in December would be done on day one, do y'all think ours are coming in December also, or does there have to be some sort of a lag before real production starts.

Christmas sounds like such a great time to get my ELIO!!!

 

[KD]

From a previous thread: " they are going to start one production line at 70% capacity or 350 Elio a day for 45 days."

SO, the pre-production 100 in December would be done on day one, do y'all think ours are coming in December also, or does there have to be some sort of a lag before real production starts.

Christmas sounds like such a great time to get my ELIO!!!

To answer your thread title question in one word.

YUP

 

[Grumpy Cat]

What we don't know is, are they going to continue producing vehicles or are they going to wait XX amount of days to get feedback from their business customers and then redo parts of the car. I don't think either way has been said yet.

 

[RUCRAYZE]

What we don't know is, are they going to continue producing vehicles or are they going to wait XX amount of days to get feedback from their business customers and then redo parts of the car. I don't think either way has been said yet.

the wait will always be the $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

 

[Coss]

What we don't know is, are they going to continue producing vehicles or are they going to wait XX amount of days to get feedback from their business customers and then redo parts of the car. I don't think either way has been said yet.

One of the reasons they sighted for doing the 100 fleet cars was to get feedback on real world testing.
I don't believe that they would release the production vehicles without waiting for the "test fleet" to give them feedback first; that's the purpose of the "test fleet"; drive them, see what, if any, changes have to be made, or areas that have to be improved; make those changes and incorporate them into the production line vehicles.

Sounds like something I would say: "do you want it? Or do you want it done right?"

I know a bunch of you will probably say "I just want it" but would you really be happy with a flawed product after waiting this long?
I want it, but I definitely want it right the first time; I don't want to have to keep taking it back to get problems fixed.
The bad PR would devastate EM; and all of that time and effort they've put into the Elio would be wasted.

 

[Maurtis]

Agreed, better to wait a few extra months than spend years complaining about the lemon you got. Not using the pre-production 100 for real world test numbers would be a huge mistake since they were supposed to be test units anyway. The only difference being they would have been Elio test units and not third party fleet test units.

 

[KD]

What we don't know is, are they going to continue producing vehicles or are they going to wait XX amount of days to get feedback from their business customers and then redo parts of the car. I don't think either way has been said yet.

In the aircraft industry, production planes roll down the assembly line right after the "test" planes. Obviously, the pace is somewhat slow, but the idea to take away here is the first production (and test) planes are always heavier and with some other flaws that get sorted out quickly (hopefully!) and then a nice ramp up in production can be accomplished in order to satisfy the customers.

 

[KD]

One of the reasons they sighted for doing the 100 fleet cars was to get feedback on real world testing.
I don't believe that they would release the production vehicles without waiting for the "test fleet" to give them feedback first; that's the purpose of the "test fleet"; drive them, see what, if any, changes have to be made, or areas that have to be improved; make those changes and incorporate them into the production line vehicles.

Sounds like something I would say: "do you want it? Or do you want it done right?"

I know a bunch of you will probably say "I just want it" but would you really be happy with a flawed product after waiting this long?
I want it, but I definitely want it right the first time; I don't want to have to keep taking it back to get problems fixed.
The bad PR would devastate EM; and all of that time and effort they've put into the Elio would be wasted.

A small nugget, maybe insignificant, perhaps I misunderstood, was perhaps not all 100 are accounted for on fleet sales. My impression was that the fleet operators are/were to have a national presence to allow for the large variance in operating conditions.

 

[Elio Amazed]

I don't believe that the 100 pre-production vehicles will be done in anywhere near one day.
Not even mentioning what Coss pointed out in regards to real-world road use and feedback.
"...they are going to start one production line at 70% capacity or 350 Elio a day for 45 days."
That's "production line" not "pre-production line".

 

[RUCRAYZE]

Has it been determined if the fleet units are a lease? I would assume that E M would keep total control with the ability to "call them in" at their request?