Welcome to the Elio Owners Forum TruBlueBro from the Pacific NW.It's an autocycle Period. That is the market to exploit. Paul Elio needs to establish the high mark here and keep it. Making CARS(4 wheeled vehicles) is an entirely different ball game.... and get's us back to more than enough....again.
The thread you're answering here is over a year old, and as Neal in post #4 says "Probably misinformation or something taken out of context by the reporter" is the most likely reason this unfounded rumor came about being in the first place.
We have found over the years that reporters like to fill in a lot of their own <ahem> "facts"