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Sure, but what are the comparative costs, acknowledging the sunk costs as sunk costs of course? Such an acquisition and move would be no trivial matter.

I'm defending nothing. I've said many times that the odds are heavily in favor of Elio Motors failing spectacularly, as a matter of necessary initial capital investment. I'm a fan of the vehicle concept, but that means nothing for my expectations of the company's business prospects. You used a...

I'm pretty sure I already have a shell script on this system to generate the same sort of buzzword loaded nonsense. Can't remember what the command is, though. Oops!

Latter boldface emphasis mine. Actually, a lack of new information doesn't tell anything at all- as you'd expect from a lack of information. Rather, such a lack simply allows the intellectually skittish- both critics and fans alike, optimists and pessimists, cynics and the irrepressibly...

If it's the same article from The Guardian that I read which becomes a series of line workers acting surprised and betrayed that physical work begets chronic physical wear, it also has Musk affirming that Tesla is a vastly overvalued firm at its present share price. Good times...

Frankly, that has little to no bearing on my point. I didn't say their cars don't or won't sell. It remains a tremendously overvalued stock compared to any other auto manufacturer, burgeoning and mature alike, and it's often compared instead to tech and web startups, many of which go through...

Oh, yes, definitely. That, and longer waits for return imply a greater risk of uncertainty or changing conditions, which make people get all twitchy. Pursuant to this point, and just for fun, also try to watch and see how many times Tesla is compared to and understood by impatient investors...

The SOLO is laughable for my own use case, and arguably attractive to some others, but there are no cheap shots in business. Any notion of business competitors being bound by some sort of gentlemen's honor is naive at best. Well, I play a lot of progressive rock, loudly, in any car I drive...

. . . But I already have a used Ford . . . Why would I want another? Mine still works fine. ;) Fanboy brand loyalty and rivalry, combined with cathartic mockery to ease the butthurt when stupid design decisions and deliberately user-unfriendly maintenance jacks up costs and introduces acute...

Less a matter of hope, and more a strong suspicion that with any higher typical sale price, the vehicle will no longer compete meaningfully in its intended market. You'll instead be looking at a one-off, with sales numbers akin to imported Utes or Kei cars or something like that. Guaranteed to...

"Power defy our needs, lift us up, show us now Show us how amid the rack of confusion Drive in thoughts of high, satisfy, in a plan Set it out for all to understand it We've heard before, but we just don't seem to move The pressure's on is there lack of concentration? Lost and wondering, maybe...

I thought it was on topic, just because of the similarities in the businesses' financial risk and likelihood of success, versus the disparities in local governments' behaviors around each. TL;DR Even my local government, comprised of morons and martinets, hasn't been as stupid as the twits down...

It could look like a potato and get about 60% the targeted mileage and I'd still be interested, though my reasons might weigh in different proportionality then. Just have to keep unit price at a realistic configuration down under $10K...

I've heard talk of more than a few CVT designs used in production personal cars that start to get unreliable and prone to failure from 70K to 120K miles, if owners and mechanics are to be believed. That's more what I'm getting at. It's a great design in principle for efficiency, but seems to...

I'm the sort of nerd that enjoys calculating the minimum bounds of power output for anime characters who can blow up the moon, and then starting arguments with other nerds about which one is the strongest. If you posit a whimsical wondering that violates the continuity of a fictional universe...

Having looked at their very few patents related to the silly bolt-together modular structure I mentioned above, I got the impression that they've retained no experienced structures engineers. It basically looked like they took a unibody design, cut the roof and front and rear off, and then...

I want the AMT, but if a CVT were proposed, I would get good at shifting myself, again. I don't trust CVTs for longevity and durability.

Wisecracks aside, if anyone were ever able to find out who's backing them, I'd be interested. Their only readily disclosed investment was a $1-$1.2 million grant from Florida some years back, and they paid about $2 million for a fairly modern plant and lot, with the equipment going for a...

Oh noes! Teh stardup iz gettin moar det da moar it duz az id getz closur 2 produkshun! Oh noes! That will happen in exactly that way, whether Elio is about to die bleeding in the moonlight or is about to burst forth with tremendous success. The final push will cost more, whether it succeeds or...

Meanwhile, in my town, a company almost nobody knows about, with conflicting design goals and no publicly verifiable prototypes, mules, final designs, etc., and with no detailed production engineering work, has maneuvered to purchase the old Mitsubishi plant, done earlier this year. As far as I...