Good Day To Re-shoot The E In The Snow!?!?

[RUCRAYZE]

Just reaching out to all that are in harms way,
Do you think with its aerodynamic design, the snow would just slide off the E if it were parked :-)
Remember 4 wheel drive is not a gurantee of safety

 

[Grumpy Cat]

Elio post this yesterday:

http://www.eliomotors.com/get-ready-for-the-snow/

Get Ready for the Snow!
January 22, 2016

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Happy Friday Elio’ers! We hope our friends, fans and family along the eastern seaboard are buckling down and getting ready for the upcoming weather. CNN is already calling the storm “Blizzard 2016” and some areas are preparing for some serious snow (Baltimore 18”+, Washington DC 2½+ feet). Stay warm and safe.

With “Blizzard 2016″ looming (what are they going to call the next storm this year?), we felt it would be a good time to answer the oft asked question of “how will Elio do in the snow”? We understand that many of you have heard this, but this question invariably comes in through email and social media 30+ times a week during this time of year. It is a great question for those of us that live in the areas of our beautiful country that get weather (oh, and 70 degrees and sunny most of the year is not “weather”).

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Before we get started, the Elio is not built to run through 3 feet of fresh heavy snow and will not accommodate an eight foot plow mounted to the front. We have not tested it in nine foot snow drifts. If the road to your home is a mile long, at 10,000 feet in the mountains of Colorado, that doesn’t get plowed, we would encourage you to have another vehicle for the couple of months that it snows. There are a number of companies that sell vehicles made for that type of activity, many of which you could buy for $68…. thousand!

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The Elio is: a front wheel drive, front engine vehicle with most of the weight over the front wheels. The two wheels in the front configuration, with the drive wheels with the engine over top, will create good “traction action.” The Elio will also come with ABS, stability control and traction control. It handles like a small front wheel drive car on dry pavement and we are confident that the production vehicle will handle similarly to the car in the snow.

If there is two feet of new snow, stay home like everyone else or break out your Urban Assault Vehicle. But with the roads plowed, the Elio will be a solid winter vehicle. Remember that heat and AC is standard and we are planning many cold weather options as well, some of which will be rolling out in the coming months for you to start planning.

Click the video below to see our P4 snow driving in Michigan.

Elio Preview Tour

Now through January 24 – Detroit, Michigan; North American International Auto Show, show hours, P5 show
SPECIAL NOTE – We are in the concourse, before you get in to the main show, which is open to the public without a ticket

 

[BaldGuy]

Hopefully, I can find a tire for the Elio that can be studded. Here the roads really get slick fast.

 

[Bert]

I've thought the same thing, especially for the rear one. I drive a LOT of highway..

 

[Adamant]

I'd be scared to take it out in anything deeper than 2 inches.

 

[Coss]

I've thought the same thing, especially for the rear one. I drive a LOT of highway..

A studded tire for the rear ..... why?
If you're doing that, you might as well get a chain for it too, it would serve the same purpose .... nothing.

The rear tire on the Elio just holds up the rear of the vehicle; it's not a drive wheel, so putting studs or a chain on it would serve no purpose other than wasting money. Yes, I live in the PNW now but I grew up and first learned to drive in NW Indiana; and when you live at the very southern tip of Lake Michigan you do get some really crazy winter weather, including freezing rain and a lot of snow; so I do know how to drive in weather like that.
Studs do more damage to the streets then they help for driving; there are a lot of places that have banned studs; personally I wish they would ban them everywhere; there are very few situations that they are really necessary.

 

[Bert]

A studded tire for the rear ..... why?
If you're doing that, you might as well get a chain for it too, it would serve the same purpose .... nothing.

The rear tire on the Elio just holds up the rear of the vehicle; it's not a drive wheel, so putting studs or a chain on it would serve no purpose other than wasting money. Yes, I live in the PNW now but I grew up and first learned to drive in NW Indiana; and when you live at the very southern tip of Lake Michigan you do get some really crazy winter weather, including freezing rain and a lot of snow; so I do know how to drive in weather like that.
Studs do more damage to the streets then they help for driving; there are a lot of places that have banned studs; personally I wish they would ban them everywhere; there are very few situations that they are really necessary.

Even studs dig into sheet ice if you were to slide sideways. True they''re harder on the road surface, but a person needs all the control they can get, including the non powered, non steerable, wheel.
I still see the same problems today. People put the best, or weather based, tires on the powered end, while ignoring the wheels that are drug, or pushed, through the same weather.
Common sense, "if" a person has trouble starting to move in snow and ice, they put better tires on the powered set of wheels, "BUT" you've ignored the fact, the non powered wheels have just as much trouble gripping as well! On a rear wheel drive vehicle, you end up with stopping and steering issues from the "less" tires you didn't replace.
Front wheel drive has the advantage on slippery surfaces, but I'll take the additional grip on the rear as well. I won't have a contest on who drove in worse conditions. I've got a lot of miles behind me though, in all conditions, including black ice and high winds.

 

[Rickb]

A studded tire for the rear ..... why?
If you're doing that, you might as well get a chain for it too, it would serve the same purpose .... nothing.

The rear tire on the Elio just holds up the rear of the vehicle; it's not a drive wheel, so putting studs or a chain on it would serve no purpose other than wasting money. Yes, I live in the PNW now but I grew up and first learned to drive in NW Indiana; and when you live at the very southern tip of Lake Michigan you do get some really crazy winter weather, including freezing rain and a lot of snow; so I do know how to drive in weather like that.
Studs do more damage to the streets then they help for driving; there are a lot of places that have banned studs; personally I wish they would ban them everywhere; there are very few situations that they are really necessary.

I lived through and drove 50 years without issue on South Dakota roadways where studded tires are banned. The highways do clear to pavement due to plowing, de-icers, and traffic after a reasonable time.

However, when I moved to the inland Northwest a few years ago because of the milder winter climate studded tires are legal for a specific period during winter month driving because of winding and mountainous roads with very frequent late afternoon and early morning black ice driving conditions. Although, I am anti-studded snow tires I can see why they are necessary for safety in this part of the country.

I would guess a set of 3 studded tires would be required on the Elio for our Idaho winter driving conditions..........or minimal 2 front wheel drive tires.

 

[TCBronson]

I think it's a good time to reshoot any video and replace the old P4 with the new P5!

 

[John-b-gone]

If you wana GO put studs on your drive wheels/tires, if you want to STOP put studs all the way around.