This is why the ball is in Sondors court. We can all be in 100% support of the company and their plans but the reality is, what do they do from here on out. Do they celebrate meaningless milestones and then go into silence or keep everyone informed on their progress. As we all know, Elio has set...
On the Elio Motors site is this:
https://ir.eliomotors.com/
IR means investor Relations, not Ingersoll Rand. This is where you need to look at your info, not the glitzy website that is designed for unaccredited investors. Elio uses the wording "targeted" because they know that accredited...
Why is it a terrible idea? We all know that the H2 network in China is not good at all and FC's take up a lot of room. If you read the article you'll see why it's a great idea. They are using them for testing. So, it makes no sense for this Chinese company to develop their own H2 fuel cell when...
If you look on the new Elio Motors website:
As of June 30, 2017
65,373 Total Reservations (refundable and non refundable)
36,435 Total Reservations locked in at $7300
21,204 Total reservations locked in at $7000 and a binding purchase agreement
With that being pretty much 6 months old, I'd...
I'm not being negative, just realistic. This reminds me of a talk I went to at a conference called, “Ethics and Prototyping”. In a nutshell, years ago, it was to prove the concept, meet the specifications and then work on attractive packaging. That's what legit companies still do today. With all...
Actually I looked it up and October 2009 was when Elio Motors has the first archive and the green one is there. It's like the Sondors where is was for show. We all found out the Sondors is a show car and not close to anything production (i.e. can only go 20 mph, everything inside is just a...
Put it in perspective. Earliest I can remember, Elio had the green prototype all out and running around in 2010. Before that it was a concept or a non skinned prototype. So, just put Sondors at where Elio was in 2010. From there, we can watch how it outperforms, does the same or fails in the...
The interesting part is is this. I took $2K back in 2013 and with my brother in law, went aggressive and I knew the risk of losing was no big deal. In essence, it was play money. Just that $2K is now $4600. Most of that has been made in the last two years. At this point, if I reserved 2 elios in...
On the other hand, you either have insider information or you don't. What you do not want to do is post as to indicate you have insider info. Once you do that, then you will be considered an insider. A customer of mine ran into this about 10 years ago. He was looking to move his machine shop...
I used to have a 1980 Honda ATC. A few other friends had various trikes like it and we'd all go out on a frozen lake and have lots of fun. If you used a bunch of really short sheet metal screws with a hex head and put them in the knobbies, it gripped much better on the ice.
There one thing that really bothers me. From reading this, you'd assume that there has been no work done by automotive sector when it comes to American manufacturing. I know that Elio will employ 1500 people at their plant in 2019 but if you go and look at just the non US automotive companies...
That is true. At least LA and the Caddo Parish did provide incentives to Elio Motors to get them to move there. They did so because Elio was to start hiring 1500 people starting the 2nd quarter of 2014. I know that it'll 4 years late for them to start hiring people but Elio did tell them over...
I was in that plant years ago and it was obvious that GM stuck the high margin trucks in there because it was not the most efficient facility they had. Thus, over the last few years before they closed it completely, it was getting a bit run down. One other issue was that it was far away from...
I wonder if it's because Elio is being too efficient. Elio is going to make 250K cars per year with only 1500 as opposed to 300K with 4K people. It makes me wonder why Toyota can't build their 300K with only 1700 people. Something is wrong over at Toyota.
It is actually the Paul Elio Doodle. I know because it all makes sense. Today is Alan Patrons 115th birthday and that doodle is of Paul when he's 115 years old and wondering what should be the newest target date for Elio Motors.
Elio has done enough car shows. There gets a point of diminishing returns when you have to keep answering the same question a bazillion times. "When will you go into production?" The Elio crew would just need to wear T-Shirts that say, "2019" and thus, they don't have to keep being bugged. With...
ICA is not going anywhere. manufacturers will still make them because it's easy money. This is the same reason why the Germans and Japanese keep building and expanding car plants in the US. We keep buying ICE and it makes much more sense to build them here. Toyota has two massive ICE engine...
Looks like Elio Motors is still working on autocycle bills for the upcoming 2019 production.
http://www.penbaypilot.com/article/senator-miramant-bill-would-create-licensing-autocycles-maine/96632