E-series Has Started How About Some Photos?

[OldAFGuy]

The company has announced that the E-series builds have started. Yay! How about some photos of the production line and the vehicles in-progress??? I understood these were to be built on a line in production fashion all 25 at a time.

It is already about the middle of Feb. They will have to get cracking if they are going to finish these 25 E-series, do the testing, make fixes AND get the main production line up and running by the end of the year.

BTW do we know the name of the production honcho guy/gal and his or her background?

OldAFGuy

 

[Johnny Acree]

Welcome OldAFguy. Now first take a few deap breaths. This is going to take a while.
The best source for info is the SEC fileing where you can find info like this

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$25M Regulation A offering underway

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E1 Engineering drawing release – Month 2

•
E1 Builds begin – Month 3

•
E1 Testing – Month 4

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S1 Production drawing release & tooling kickoff - Month 7

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Order long lead equipment – Month 9

•
Shreveport plant integration – Month 9

•
Initial 10 retail locations selected – Month 10

•
Retail lease agreements signed – Month 11

•
Service partner agreements signed – Month 11

•
S1 Builds and production validation – Month 13

•
Initial 10 retail stores build out complete – Month 14

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S2 Builds & EPA/CARB certification complete – Month 14

•
Start of Production – Month 15

and this

Hari Iyer, Chief Operating Officer and Elio Motors Board Member. Mr. Iyer has been with Elio Motors since January 2014 and brings nearly 25 years of product development, business strategy and operations expertise in the automotive industry. From January 2011 to August 2013, Mr. Iyer was Executive Vice President at Envia Systems, a Silicon Valley battery manufacturer, where he led all aspects of business strategy and product commercialization. From October 2009 to November 2010 (and as a full-time consultant from ESG Engineering from October 2006 to September 2009), he served as Vice President of Engineering at Next Autoworks Company. At Next Autoworks, Mr. Iyer developed the original vehicle architecture, led the selection of vehicle technologies and suppliers and was responsible for all module engineering teams. From June 1999 to September 2009, Mr. Iyer was co-founder and Chief Operating Officer at ESG Engineering, a product development firm specializing in the automotive and cleantech space. Mr. Iyer held various positions at Johnson Controls, Automotive Systems Group from January 1989 to August 1997. He received his M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Penn State and his M.B.A. from Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Please relax and enjoy the ride

 

[wizard of ahs]

Thank you Johnny

 

[Trusting]

 

[3wheelin]

Welcome OldAFguy. Now first take a few deap breaths. This is going to take a while.
The best source for info is the SEC fileing where you can find info like this

•
$25M Regulation A offering underway

•
E1 Engineering drawing release – Month 2

•
E1 Builds begin – Month 3

•
E1 Testing – Month 4

•
S1 Production drawing release & tooling kickoff - Month 7

•
Order long lead equipment – Month 9

•
Shreveport plant integration – Month 9

•
Initial 10 retail locations selected – Month 10

•
Retail lease agreements signed – Month 11

•
Service partner agreements signed – Month 11

•
S1 Builds and production validation – Month 13

•
Initial 10 retail stores build out complete – Month 14

•
S2 Builds & EPA/CARB certification complete – Month 14

•
Start of Production – Month 15

and this

Hari Iyer, Chief Operating Officer and Elio Motors Board Member. Mr. Iyer has been with Elio Motors since January 2014 and brings nearly 25 years of product development, business strategy and operations expertise in the automotive industry. From January 2011 to August 2013, Mr. Iyer was Executive Vice President at Envia Systems, a Silicon Valley battery manufacturer, where he led all aspects of business strategy and product commercialization. From October 2009 to November 2010 (and as a full-time consultant from ESG Engineering from October 2006 to September 2009), he served as Vice President of Engineering at Next Autoworks Company. At Next Autoworks, Mr. Iyer developed the original vehicle architecture, led the selection of vehicle technologies and suppliers and was responsible for all module engineering teams. From June 1999 to September 2009, Mr. Iyer was co-founder and Chief Operating Officer at ESG Engineering, a product development firm specializing in the automotive and cleantech space. Mr. Iyer held various positions at Johnson Controls, Automotive Systems Group from January 1989 to August 1997. He received his M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Penn State and his M.B.A. from Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Please relax and enjoy the ride

Can't really relax now that we the reservationists only "SEEMED" close to getting our ELIO by 2017 "PROVIDED" the additional funding (the big one) is acquired before month 7 per EM's layout! Or EM will have a "fully tested" E-series (funding acquired) on a stand still without continuity to actual production! But thanks for the advise!

 

[Rickb]

Welcome OldAFguy. Now first take a few deap breaths. This is going to take a while.
The best source for info is the SEC fileing where you can find info like this

•
$25M Regulation A offering underway

•
E1 Engineering drawing release – Month 2

•
E1 Builds begin – Month 3

•
E1 Testing – Month 4

•
S1 Production drawing release & tooling kickoff - Month 7

•
Order long lead equipment – Month 9

•
Shreveport plant integration – Month 9

•
Initial 10 retail locations selected – Month 10

•
Retail lease agreements signed – Month 11

•
Service partner agreements signed – Month 11

•
S1 Builds and production validation – Month 13

•
Initial 10 retail stores build out complete – Month 14

•
S2 Builds & EPA/CARB certification complete – Month 14

•
Start of Production – Month 15

and this

Hari Iyer, Chief Operating Officer and Elio Motors Board Member. Mr. Iyer has been with Elio Motors since January 2014 and brings nearly 25 years of product development, business strategy and operations expertise in the automotive industry. From January 2011 to August 2013, Mr. Iyer was Executive Vice President at Envia Systems, a Silicon Valley battery manufacturer, where he led all aspects of business strategy and product commercialization. From October 2009 to November 2010 (and as a full-time consultant from ESG Engineering from October 2006 to September 2009), he served as Vice President of Engineering at Next Autoworks Company. At Next Autoworks, Mr. Iyer developed the original vehicle architecture, led the selection of vehicle technologies and suppliers and was responsible for all module engineering teams. From June 1999 to September 2009, Mr. Iyer was co-founder and Chief Operating Officer at ESG Engineering, a product development firm specializing in the automotive and cleantech space. Mr. Iyer held various positions at Johnson Controls, Automotive Systems Group from January 1989 to August 1997. He received his M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Penn State and his M.B.A. from Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Please relax and enjoy the ride

Based on EM's progress there was apparently no COO position held from 2007-up until Hari Lyer was hired in 2014, or possibly the former COO wasn't doing a very good job.

Is EM currently in the E1 Engineering drawing stage since we haven't seen any drawings released? Unsettled reality.

 

[OldAFGuy]

Yah Yah. I've seen more waterfall schedule charts than you can imagine. They are easy and fun to make and mean absolutely nothing against reality.

Since EM has stated that the "E-series builds have started!" I assumed than meant metal being bent and welders sparking. Apparently "builds have started" means preliminary planning and CAD work. What we used to call "getting ready to think about planning to get started".

That schedule is mighty light on production-side milestones. "order long lead equipment - Month 9" and "plant integration - Month 9" doesn't sound like "long lead" to me. In my biz long lead means 6-9-18 mos delivery after placing the order.

That schedule has 13 mos from "E1 Engineering drawing release" to Production starts. Assuming the drawings will be released end of this month we are at around April 2017 for production start - assuming they get the money they need.

 

[Johnny Acree]

I know it's a little vague,,, but it's all we got. EM has a habit of not showing their cards (photos) till the project is nearly completed.
My WAG is actual build will start in May.

 

[3wheelin]

I know it's a little vague,,, but it's all we got. EM has a habit of not showing their cards (photos) till the project is nearly completed.
My WAG is actual build will start in May.

'Gotta have the faith that that is the case! Jumping to conclusion right now is a little premature. May-June is where we "should" at least have some concreate evidence of where they're at (funding issues, e-series tests completion) in relation to meeting their targeted Q4 '16 production.

 

[Kuda]

[QUOTE="OldAFGuy, post: 133939, member: 5957

BTW do we know the name of the production honcho guy/gal and his or her background?

OldAFGuy[/QUOTE]

Yes. Ty knows....