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The Elio has DBW and will use TC. I can't think of any car or truck since 2005 that has a throttle cable. Maybe in some third world country. Even the Elio engine had DBW and used TC.

I know that Roush knows because they have a building full of dynos that run constantly doing EPA cert for many car makers (not just Ford). The heat generated from the dynos actually heats many of their buildings during the winter. Remember, EPA cert is not just the motor either. many people...

3.31 - 0.49 (dn 12.89%) :closed_2: Shares Traded: 8 7 1 5 For the more sophisticated: :popcorn: 3.31 - 0.49 (dn 12.89%) 3.31 / 3.75 (450 x 100)

As an Engineer I have to deal with metric, Imperial and US standard. On the other hand, when you get your Elio, it will have three non metric items on it. The speedometer (which probably will have km/h in small font anyway), the wheel diameter and wheel width. There's not a single automotive...

European drive cycle for computing fuel consumption is not the same as for what we require in the US for 4 wheeled cars. 3 wheeled, has no official specifications for calculating fuel consumption so you can make up anything you want. I'm only using l/km because it's obvious that when you look up...

The Ford Ecoboost that's 100hp has the lowest fuel consumption of their small engines. In the Fiesta that car has 4.8l/100km as opposed to the 5.0l/100km for other small less powerful motors. VW does better. They are at 4.2l/100km with their 90hp 1.0l TSI and then beat everything with the 1.6l...

Sounds like Ford or Chevy then. ECOBOOST or ECOTEC Take your pick.

The FCA engine you are talking about is made by this company: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Engine_Alliance

This is reality verses fantasy. There comes a point where you can have your "must haves" and sit around for years not getting anywhere or just relax on them and get it to market. If it's really a deal breaker, then let Elio know that it must be a US built motor and that the 90% NAFTA must be in...

That has to do with ICO's, not STO's. Eliocoin is an STO and they will follow all SEC rules. So Elio is safe.

That's living in fantasy land and not realistic. I'd love it if all the money came from US owned companies but I've moved on. I need to eat and pay the bills. So, I could refuse the work or just take it. I found that a Honda check is as good as a Ford one. In the real world, we have to deal...

It sounds like that if we just eliminated all of the foreign companies in the US we'd be better off. That US companies would be formed to take up the void that is left. So for the last 38 years, companies like Honda are bad for the US and they should have built their plants in another country...

you missed the point. tZero was going nowhere and got lucky. They extended their offering over and over again. Since the ElioCoin is private right now, we have no idea as to who is buying in. The real question is, where will ElioCoin be traded? I would assume tZero but I don't know if they are...

It took longer for the private sale for tZero coins. Only when they got an influx of $160M from the Chinese, did it all of a sudden was done. So, that tells me that they were around $90M out of the $250M needed before the influx.

You bring up a point that people don't talk about. I think there are many just want the good ol' days when we had the Big3 and the cars were made in America in American plants. We can reminisce about that all we want but times have changed. I'd rather have a German, Japanese, Chinese or South...

Go to New Mexico and you'll see lots of houses that did that back in the late 70's. I worked for a company where we designed a system and it worked great. It doesn't work great if you live in a place where you don't get lots of sun and low in altitude.

You could be like me and just buy a wrecked BMW i3 with REX at an auction. Fix it up (all the body panels are carbon fiber and just bolt on), so if you are patient, you can find the same color panels and just bolt them on. So far that thing is dirt cheap to drive. I have to run the motor once in...

Last count, it was $376.6M for startup. Take off the $125M, then it's 3 Eliocoins.

The Germans engineer things the best they can. As for actually building the product in Germany, they leave that to the immigrants (most are from Turkey). Finding a German that actually wants to work in a plant is rare these days. typically, Mexican products are the best because if you have ever...

Is Romania OK? Ford does make the 3 cylinder in Romania, China and Germany. I can tell you that if Ford is chosen the motor will not come from the German plant. You got to deal with the Germans to understand.