You have to remember what he's trying to accomplish. It would be like if I decided to climb Mt. Everest by myself. I can have all of the grit and determination of anyone, but I do have to be realistic. This is where Elio should have started off a bit smaller as opposed to going from nothing to...
I'm surprised that Elio Engineering or Elio Motors does not have any recent ones. Especially a design patent on his car. On the other hand, they might have tried that and it was either too general or just like a previous patent that expired.
The reporter had three warrants out for her arrest back in 2011 and got fired from her job in 2014:
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Wouldn't it been better for Elio to at least acknowledge that from March to today, that those 100 pre production units never happened as opposed to just ignoring that press release completely and leave the investors just guessing and sending emails to the company with no response whatsoever to...
I suggest everyone here go to Shanghai China. If you like your eyes to have a slight burning sense all of the time, one clear day a month, when it rains it doesn't have a slight burning feel to it, rivers that run orange and smell like sewage, then we need to get rid of all of those regulations...
As a 5'7" person, there is way more room on the front and rear seat than any other car. A friend of mine has a Fiat 500 and it seems tiny when you are riding in it.
I could see some Germans buying and importing them. They would consider it a novelty and being unique. Probably turn them into some delivery vehicle for a fast food restaurant and plaster some goofy name on the side, paint it bright green and put a tail on it. People in the US are not buying an...
I'm afraid that Elio could do what Fisker did. Get under so much pressure that it was forced to production before the car was done. As for Elio, I doubt that they are even close to getting all of the engineering done. Even their latest black car looks like it has many components that were hand...
The problem with Europe is that they are way ahead of us when it comes to small efficient cars and using alternative sources of energy in cars. Elio would have lots of competition. In large cities, they have car sharing where you use a car for as long as you need. It's electric and you just pick...
The thing is, how many of the 65K reservation holders would be willing to accept a surcharge because the price of raw materials went up. I could see when Elio 65,001 rolls off the assembly line but not for 65,000. It is a binding contract and you have no recourse if they never build a car but...
Here's the way I see it with Trump. He's not going to put up with someone that can't meet milestones. As we all know, Paul is the poster child for that. With that being said, Trump will look at it as a business and not through emotion. I believe Elio will get the loan but the provisions are...
I hear the same thing. The price of steel, aluminum, resin (for plastics) are all going up. Those are the three main components in a car. Many large companies (automotive and appliance) are buying up these products in large quantities and it's just driving up the price. Many believe that when we...
It would be better for everyone to go out and buy the magazine for this month as opposed to posting the article for all to see for free. Then email them to thank them for doing an article on it. This way, the magazine sees a major uptick on sales for a single month and can attribute it to the...
This is just another step closer to getting this thing going. Trump is pro American business. When it's American made product, that's even better. Trump has already stated that he want's new manufacturing here in America, not just keeping existing jobs. So with Elio doing exactly what Trump is...
If you are sending them letters in the mail, it might not be getting there because the "0" fell off the building for the next store neighbors:
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If I'm going to park the car for a week, I unplug it because I would think it would produce some sort of drain on the battery.
As for OBD-II compliance, pretty much other things like motorcycles are going that way because the whole system has been around since 1996 and OBD-I even longer. Using...
You have to look at it as you can't make it 100% foolproof if you are wanting any sort of efficiency out of it. If we didn't care about efficiency, we'd just make cast iron 2 valve low compression engines that don't rev very high. Since we do want efficiency, we have to accept there will be some...
Just have the valve default to close. In manufacturing we always default to safety to keep machines from destroying themselves because most of what we run is with compressed air that is told what to do with electric solenoids. The rate at which we have a catastrophe is really small on machines...