It is also National Nylon Stocking day. For whatever that's worth. As for the original hearing, it was National Joe Day, so it makes sense that the hearing was not on that day. On the other hand June 28th is National Paul Bunyan day. It has the name Paul in it and thus, good vibes if the case...
You are mistaken because you are looking for power and not worried about a packaging issue. I'm looking at efficiency and being able to package the engine in another chassis. Using what I said will make for a more efficient engine. What you look for in a goal is a hp number and then build the...
I'd just use a Geo metro motor for what you are doing and then find a used Motec m600 ECU. That should work on a 3 cylinder. Then cut the intake down to the flange, make a fabbed manifold with three injectors, go with coil on plug ignition. You probably have to make up a timing wheel on the...
Here's how I look at it. Elio has had some horrible blogs for the last few months. All of a sudden one was just if you were on the email list and it literally had a pic of the Elio in front of some big cheese investors. Then a new T-Shirt Design along with hinting for a new road show. not long...
Good news is that you won't have to worry about EV's taking over for a while. So, the problems will happen but at a slow pace. I'd say you got a good 20 years of IC Engines dominating the landscape. So all of the issues what will cause problems have time to be addressed and there will be...
The electrical thing is something to think about. Take for instance the house I live in now compared to my only one. My old one had natural gas and electric. So the furnace, stove, oven, dryer and water heater ran off of natural gas. As we all know natural gas is perfectly safe and nothing can...
The cars have a rough life in India and they are not known for maintenance. Also, a cheap new car is equivalent to around $5500 USD and a $7500 USD one is like a Mitsubishi Mirage in the states. In India, $5500 is a lot of money and $7500 is even more. An engineer I was working with bought a...
I don;t think it would be that hard for the Variocam (which is what they were going to do or have done). It's used on plenty of VW and Porsche products. VW uses it on about half of their E888 engines which goes into about everything the make nowadays. mainly, you have to have an oil feed cast...
I didn't realize that the Elio is 90% American content. I hope that T-Shirt wins because that's big news and should have a blog just for that.
I also Googled "Elio T-Shirt" and there are a boatload of other ones they already have for sale on other sites that look pretty cool. Even some...
As for the engine. Even cheap junker cars in India have 4 valve per cylinder and a mid level (which would be like 5 levels above the cheapest car you can get in the US) have DI and variable cam timing. There's a bunch of those 600-999 cc 3 cylinder engines out there in those countries that are...
Elio Motors owed IAV $1.6M and did pay it off. From the Elio website:
From 2015
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By 2017, no mention of IAV for liabilities. So, they were paid as for every other vendor that did work on the car. how that all transpired is another story. When you get to the point of owing that kind of...
Think about it. Remember when Ford announced they were going to put in a twin turbo, 4 valve, DI motor in an F150? People thought they were nuts. Then to take that engine and use it in the Ford GT. Another one was when Ford decided to make bodies out of aluminum.
It's a good idea that they fit...
There are lots of things that IAV could have done to the Elio engine but it sounds like that they just went for the cheapest thing they could. As for the Elio engine development, they need to make some major changes to get it to the efficiency of current engines and what will be available in a...
Why doesn’t Elio ever show any recent pics of the engineers with the 3 E-Series cars? I know it doesn’t take Teves and Red Dot a year and a half to get their jobs done. They did mention the engineers in the last blog, so they must be around and still employed. Just a pic of some engineer looking...