Hard to understand why anyone would still believe that somehow a "miracle will happen" and that the elio will magically be produced, when the facts would suggest otherwise. All pe's silly "must haves", up to 84 MPG, utilizing off the shelf technology, USA built, low purchase price, etc. etc. were just that, ridiculous, impossible to meet goals, anyway you slice it. So of course the elio has been a complete non-start from day one.
As a registered professional engineer, I have never encountered a single other engineer, in my decades in the profession, that would even begin to entertain such grandiose claims. Unsubstantiated, impossible to validate claims that have no basis in reality. No other production vehicle has ever come close. The superb, 1st Generation Honda Manual Transmission Insight with it's true 60+ MPG, comes closest, and Honda reportedly lost money on each Insight built. Even Honda couldn't make money on an expensive to build, ultra-high efficiency automobile.
Yes, we need innovators, yes we need early adopters, but all that enthusiasm has to be tempered and have some basis in reality. Per today's news, California, the largest car market in the USA, will ban the sale of new internal combustion cars / trucks in about a decade. All manufacturers are moving to strictly electric vehicles, so an elio with a 10 year old, dated ICE design, would be obsolete if it were built tomorrow.
No the elio will unfortunately never be built. I suggest to pe, that he might consider selling the construction dwgs for the elio, for hobbyists to tackle it themselves. That is the only way we will ever see an elio on American streets.
As a registered professional engineer, I have never encountered a single other engineer, in my decades in the profession, that would even begin to entertain such grandiose claims. Unsubstantiated, impossible to validate claims that have no basis in reality. No other production vehicle has ever come close. The superb, 1st Generation Honda Manual Transmission Insight with it's true 60+ MPG, comes closest, and Honda reportedly lost money on each Insight built. Even Honda couldn't make money on an expensive to build, ultra-high efficiency automobile.
Yes, we need innovators, yes we need early adopters, but all that enthusiasm has to be tempered and have some basis in reality. Per today's news, California, the largest car market in the USA, will ban the sale of new internal combustion cars / trucks in about a decade. All manufacturers are moving to strictly electric vehicles, so an elio with a 10 year old, dated ICE design, would be obsolete if it were built tomorrow.
No the elio will unfortunately never be built. I suggest to pe, that he might consider selling the construction dwgs for the elio, for hobbyists to tackle it themselves. That is the only way we will ever see an elio on American streets.
