My biggest concern is the funding of the project. Have Elio got the grants they were after? It seems to have gone quiet on this topic. I know they publicised that they had cleared some of the hurdles needed but I don't recall that they had actually succeeded in obtaining the capital.
No, I haven't put any money down, but I'd buy an Elio if it proves possible to register one in UK.
EM has not yet been given a response either way. As the decision will be a matter of public record we will hear about it one way or another. Even under this revised version of this program, which is supposed to make decisions quicker, it very well could take a year for everything to work its way through even though most of us hope a decision comes sooner than that.