Electra Meccanica (three Wheel Electric) Email-11/2/15

[Rickb]

First dash rendering I've seen. Seems like a simple and functional layout.

 

[Hog]

Simple and functional I like. 125 units to be sold this year, (and yes Elio to 'sell' 100 units for fleet testing, I know) , I think those are all pre reserved units though, the rest of us will be waiting until next year, along with Elio fans... Still waiting to see who really gets selling first for general public sales.

 

[Elio Amazed]

The website says projected MSRP of $19,888 cdn.
$19,888 x .7813 (approximate current exchange rate) = $15,538 USD.
If you can get some Federal and/or State green incentives on top of that...

That's not bad!

 

[Elio Amazed]

Click on the aticle to go to a larger version of it on the website.

 

[Hog]

Yes, the additional energy incentives bring the price down into the Elio range, otherwise its would be too pricey for me.

 

[Marshall]

I don't understand the economics of those incentives packages to subsidize electric vehicles. Do they think electricity is carbon free most of the time? And even if the production is, the building of the production units is certainly not carbon free.

Efficient use of resources should factor in ALL carbon required to get that "CLEAN" energy. Right now it's just another way to rob Paul to pay Elon.

 

[wizard of ahs]

Click on the aticle to go to a larger version of it on the website.

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Electra Meccanica about to go Solo

 

[Coss]

I don't understand the economics of those incentives packages to subsidize electric vehicles. Do they think electricity is carbon free most of the time? And even if the production is, the building of the production units is certainly not carbon free.

Efficient use of resources should factor in ALL carbon required to get that "CLEAN" energy. Right now it's just another way to rob Paul to pay Elon.

Canada gets the majority of it's electricity from Hydro (aka dams); so much so that they sell the excess to the US grid; hence the name BC Hydro
Hydro is carbon free.

 

[Marshall]

Canada gets the majority of it's electricity from Hydro (aka dams); so much so that they sell the excess to the US grid; hence the name BC Hydro
Hydro is carbon free.

How much carbon goes into building those dams? How much carbon goes into manufacturing those turbines? Like I said, it's not a carbon free system unless you ignore the dirty parts.

And that doesn't even take into consideration the heavy metal contamination from parts to make the electric "CLEAN" vehicles.

Just show us the WHOLE picture and not just a snapshot of a piece of the puzzle.

 

[bunchathrees]

Rather than speculate, here is a comprehensive summary out of Europe: http://www.geni.org/globalenergy/library/technical-articles/carbon-capture/parliamentary-office-of-science-and-technology/carbon-footprint-of-electricity-generation/file_9270.pdf

Think about this: 6.3lbs of gasoline makes roughly 20lbs of greenhouse gases. This overly simplistic analysis assumes 100% consumption of the fuel which we know isn't quite true.
https://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/contentIncludes/co2_inc.htm