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Reading that whole post was like reading a post with people that own VW TDI's. They all got different calculations and ranges as to what they can do. All I can say is that will happen here in a year when everyone is driving their Elios. One guy will report 95mpg and someone else will report 78...

Think of it like a phone charger. I have a 6 gang USB charger that cranks out 60W yet my iPhone can't take that type of charge, thus it doesn't charge any faster because the phone regulates that. What it does do is allow me to plug in 6 different items and have them all charge without each one...

I look at it this way. There's no way that Tesla thinks that it's their way no matter what and it's the best. It's because of competition and there are some things that Tesla does which are great and other things that will not be so great because someone came up with a better mousetrap. It's...

I think Elio missed the window of opportunity and will either wait for a miracle or just go ahead and embrace the future. Then there's this: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-02-01/the-breakneck-rise-of-china-s-colossus-of-electric-car-batteries

What I take away from the article was how much investment is going into infrastructure and developing new EV's. It is no surprise that the EV market will change and that Tesla will have to work with it or inevitably fail. I suspect, they will work with it. What it should tell everyone is that...

I like this comparison to Tesla: So, I like how he mentions TV ads and brand awareness (as we all know Tesla was unknown until they started running those TV ads night and day). Then gives numbers for both companies when it comes to brand awareness and how advertising gives enormous growth...

In his latest Elio report (Jan 25,2017):

Pretty much what Factory 5 does right now. For an 818, you buy a donor Subaru and use lots of parts from it. Here's the Subaru disassembly manual. I've seen a number of the 818's and they make various models of them. They could do an Elio and use a Geo Metro for a donor just like Elio did on...

I know who asked that question. It's because riding in the back can be quite dangerous.

Here's what Vanderhall does on their FWD reverse trike:

You can get a reproduction Tucker. This guy has built 4 of them: https://www.hagerty.com/articles-videos/articles/2017/11/01/tucker-sema http://www.idaautomotive.com/

Let's see, with the $100M they need to pay off Stu right away. Then they spend another 4 weeks doing R&D along with buying tooling and working on the Shreveport Plant. Building the 18 E series wont happen until 20 weeks after getting the funding. With everything they have going on in that first...

Today's blog will start off with the first two paragraphs about the Superbowl. Think of it like chit chat before you go in for a meeting. Hopefully the rest of the blog will be about how Phoenix Paul came out of his hole and saw his shadow. That means 6 more weeks of waiting until the big news.

In Germany, manufacturers license independent garages that can do service, parts and warranty work on new cars. For example, you don;t have to take a VW back to the VW dealer for warranty work. I expect that Elio will do the same as there are plenty of independent shops out there that would like...

So why not call it the Polaris Slingshot Safety Management System then? They have ABS, TC and stability control.

Elio is going to have other shops become the official service centers for the Pep Boys Dead Zones. So, you'll be fine. Just like the St. Louis Metro area. It's huge and millions of people but there's no way Elio will leave that area without a service center either.

Best thing to do is go to the Elio Motors website and look through their Investor Relations page. You'll see that when they first released their financials back in August 2015, the money going out was exceeding the money coming in. Not enough people doing non refundables to keep the company...

This is why Tesla is saving Elio Motors. They keep getting stated to change their laws, it just makes it a turn key operation for Elio when they open up their 60 stores soon.

I do have to hand it to Elio, these are the types of blogs that are interesting and educational. When I look at the Solo, it uses lots of off the shelf components and reminds me more of less when someone builds a hot rod in their garage. The Elio doesn't, as the majority of the components from...

The colors you could but the texturing, is part of the mold. So to change the texture of a part, requires a new mold. Things like the upper part of the dash is plastic that is then over molded with foam and the surface is part of curing process (same thing for steering wheels). That's why most...