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You can register using your Google, Facebook, or Twitter account, just click here.Yup, the big auto makers could do it. Especially as battery prices drop. Thats why Elio has to find a way soon.
The Elio dream has nothing in common with advanced automobile technologies...
Elio's stated goal is to produce an inexpensive ICE powered high gas-mileage commuter vehicle...
The Elio dream has nothing in common with advanced automobile technologies...
An electric Elio vehicle is probably beyond Elio Motor's capabilities...
Please keep in mind...since 2009 Elio has been attempting to bring a simple ICE vehicle to mass production...
It's doubtful whether Elio has the time or money to redesign their vehicle to suit electric specifications...
Well the idea would be to ADD an electric version to his production.
Correct. The Elio selling points never included the words, "latest most advanced technology." Quite the opposite. Their selling point was always old, off the shelf technology. As someone who has purchased "latest and greatest" in the past and been amazing when I watched it fall apart in less than a year I'm perfectly ok with old technology that works!
So the DOE prefers to fund new technology?