Have you ever watched new building/restaurants go up in your city/town? Even re-purposing an existing building. It commonly takes 6-7 months to get a simple fast-food chain restaurant built and operating. There's a Krispy Kreme going up in my part of DFW that is basically using (with modifications) an existing Burger King structure and even doing that it's going to take them about 5 months at best. I don't just mean structurally built, I mean actually operating with walk-in customers. And that is with all parties involved "ready to go" immediately. And putting up a fast food restaurant might as well be fingerpainting compared to the immense size of the Elio project.
Just adding up all the tangible progress (or lack thereof) it becomes plainly obvious nothing is coming to fruition next year, or likely even 2016 for that matter. Hiring production staff would take MONTHS and need to be started months out. Populating the facility with Elio-specific tooling and getting it all operating would surely take weeks/months. Not to mention the "retail centers"? As far as I know, Elio has purchased no land etc. We are genuinely still so far out it's not even funny.
Having said that, I'm not a "hater" as I do genuinely want this car, but Elio's timeline could be described as perhaps hopelessly optimistic and anybody who actually believes they'll be driving an Elio next year are either (you choose) naive or gullible.
Wow, you have some slow builders in your area. In my area QuikTrip is able to have new gas stations with large convenient stores built up from bare earth to serving customers in only three months time and I have seem several fast food outlets completely gutted and even roofs replaced then rebuilt in just a matter of weeks.
For your information in the first year there will not be any retail centers opened as the first year is only going to pre-ordered reserved vehicles for individuals and fleets. Also these retail centers do not involve land purchases as they will be leased space in existing retail centers so none of this factors into when these vehicles enter production at all.
There are plenty of unanswered questions about Elio Motors which provide plenty of valid points for discussion and we generally welcome all points of view on this forum. You can choose to believe whatever you wish however the fact that you felt the need to call other people names when sharing your ideas is uncalled for and pretty much tells me I should not take what you have to say very seriously.
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