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ElectraMeccanica - Ingenious e-Mobility Solutions
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You can register using your Google, Facebook, or Twitter account, just click here.You're right. Too bad it doesn't matter.MSRP $18,500. Ouch.
They could learn some things from Elio. I'll wait. Thank you.
Elio:
Nothing is Too Small for Engineering Innovation
A traditional hood opens forward, requiring two latches. If the first latch fails, the second latch keeps the hood from popping up and blocking the driver’s sight line. But, a second latch means more equipment and adds more than $20.00 to vehicle cost. On an Elio, the hood is engineered to open the other way. If the latch fails, the wind will blow the hood down rather than up, so a redundant latch is not required. The Elio latch costs just $3.00. Hundreds of these cost-saving designs add up to … or more accurately, it adds down… to targeted $7,450*.
On an Elio, the hood is engineered to open the other way. If the latch fails, the wind will blow the hood down rather than up, so a redundant latch is not required
Elio used hood pins on later prototypesHood pins.