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The overall volume is what the plan is. Get it to go down. No different than why VAG bought Skoda and then it offsets the Bentley. One cheap car company to counteract the really expensive one. With Ford and GM, they do know how to make pickups and we as Americans, love buying them. GM and Ford...

I chalk it up on people spend money on strange things. Other countries got it figured out. Just make things and Americans will buy it. I've bought things and then wondered down the road, What was I thinking? What's really bad is if you go to Shanghai. They have a fake market and trust me, it's...

A customer of mine has a house that was built on an old golf course. He's had that house for 30 years and golf balls keep coming up here or there. Back on the tree line there must be 1000 of them in a huge pile.

Maybe just do Frisbee golf then. I can't imagine you need much for that.

Last July I was in Rutland, VT and there's a Mahindra dealer there. I stopped by and drove a Roxor. They converted it to street use and it had a license. They did it by registering it at a kit car and then made sure all of the lights worked. That took some work but it didn't look like much as...

There's lots of pics of a club bag in the Elio. So they must fit unless you have the Al Czervik sized golf bag.

Those are misleading titles. It's been known for years that manufacturers buy and sell carbon credits. Tesla is no different. Plus companies buy others just to get them too. For example, VAG bought Ducati. Seems odd for a car company to get into a small Italian manufacturer but in the EU...

When you go Golfing, you don't need a passenger. Having that extra space below the existing floor would be a cool selling point. Elio could do a tie in with Subway. They could come up with how many foot longs can you fit in the box. Maybe two footlongs and four, 12oz cans of your favorite...

I'd say that with hydrogen, the reality of it without having to use natural gas to get it is probably going to be beyond my lifetime. It's a monumental task to get it from air on the scale of the size of a car and what it consumes. What Air Products was doing was to show you could take a regular...

In our area there's a company called Air Products. They are the worlds largest supplier for Hydrogen. For a long time they had been working with GM, Ford and BMW for Hydrogen powered cars. On their campus the CEO had a Hydrogen powered 7 series BMW, they had two Hydrogen powered Busses and then...

First off there's no Big 3. It's just GM and Ford. For the third, it's an Italian company with headquarters in the Netherlands. Then big oil. Big oil really could care less because contrary to popular belief, they sell oil to other countries. 250K Elios maximum in the US per year is not going to...

Teslas free energy does not exist, so forget about that. In the end, we have geothermal, solar, wind and hydro. There are a few others but as of today, not realistic. Electric cars have a future and it's the way it's going no matter how many fight it with erroneous claims.

I've done that before. One of my customers in NJ has a Tesla. At his shop he lets me pull up and charge because he set up one there. Other customers just let me plug in with the 110V plug. If I'm there for a day of work, why not just charge it up as much as possible? With the old TDI, it was...

Sounds like you do what I do. Plan out your trips. I never really did this because I never thought about it. With the i3, I just plan out all of the trips for the day and do then where i crank out less mileage and all at once. In the end, I have found that my regular trips around town has seen a...

110v takes a long time. Then you better have a 20 amp circuit but normally everything in a house is 15 amp which realistically means about 13. I was lucky to have the breaker box in the garage and right by the doors. So I wired up 220V 50A. The plug to the circuit breakers is like no more than a...

At least Ford and VW are teaming for a truck. Then we here in America is forcing VW to spend their own money to set up 950 charging stations in the US. I assume that will work out for Ford/Rivian/VW/Audi/Porsche. I guess GM is doing what they do best, hope for the best and someone else do it for...

Suggestion to Elio, move the battery back up front, then take the battery area and that open space to the left of it and use that for and extra storage space. For example have the trunk floor be flat but a hinged opening and then there a space that will be over double of a Group 26 battery. That...

I want to automate it. This is where the Elio becomes a station wagon where it holds a number of pizzas. When an order is up, the pizzas are loaded automatically, then the Elio takes off to your house. When it gets there, the app on your phone beeps. You walk out, place your phone up by the rear...

Slide batteries would work. For short term, what we need to do it take the areas like where I live. This is because Newark, NJ is a massive port. Many distribution warehouses are here in PA and thus it's about a 100 mile drive maximum. In addition to this, it's the drive all of the Class 8...

I think Elio has it's eyes on the Class 8 trucks. That's a huge market and perfect for the routes like in my area where we have tons of distribution centers (where the trucks drive I-78 back and forth all day long to deliver containers from Newark to the centers here) and the tractor trailers...