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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...

My feeling is that Rivian has the jump on everyone. Bollinger is going to fail unless they can get their claimed range up. Not having an airbag and trying to go over the 10K lb weight class to not have that is going to kill the company. A 10Klb truck, no airbags and a 200 mile range is not what...

Also, just look at what Rivian is doing to build a massive fan base and refundable deposit base for their truck. I know we are all really poor and can't afford one but obviously there are lots of people that can.

That's not uncommon. I would have thought that this would have been cleared up in the original hearing but when a judge asks for information yet again, you just do it. I will bet that Elio proved it within a week of the appeals hearing. There's no reason why they would just lie about that on an...

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I'm a bit confused about the $120M. Elio needs $85M in R&D to finish the car (they have spent about $65M so far). I assume that Elio was going to outfit the plant to make engines and then pay Linamar to build them? At this point many of the numbers do not make any sense to me and thus I can't...

The main problem with the Workhorse and Bollinger is that if Rivian can make the claims a reality, these other two trucks will be about 5 years out of the loop. With Rivian teaming up with Ford and Ford already having a dealer/warranty/fleet base, I find it hard to believe that Workhorse will do...

Low tech doesn't mean low price. If this was the case, then Elio would have never released that they were going to not use their engine. The engine was done and super simple and thus means cheap. yet, Elio admitted they were going to save $120M by not finishing it. So, $120M did not come out of...

In the end, Elio has said, "North American Content". The reality is, Paul was right and many people just removed the word "North" and were happy. Technically, 90% of the content could be made in Mexico and the remaining 10% in Brazil. That would fulfill what Paul said legally. As for assembly...