I Have Given Up On Elio, Have You?

[jdkeats]

I have been absent here a long time (I needed a break from the chatter about Elio) and looked up my deposit date is coming on it's 5th anniversary. This looks like it will never happen and I think we have all been duped. I wish I was wrong, but sure that I am not. The worst car start up tragedies ended up producing some cars. TUCKER, BRICKLIN, DELOREON, FISKER ALL CRASHED BUT DID PRODUCE SOME.

 

[Grumpy Cat]

Nope, not given up.

 

[Husker1]

I’ll stay until they throw in the towel, but not holding my breath until they do!

 

[84mpg]

I won’t quit on them unless they do. After 10 years - there’s still not a better concept. I’d buy tomorrow if possible.

I’ve seen pretty bleak situations turn around. Hoping this is one of them.

 

[Karg]

Hey JD, if your non-refundable reservation was for $1000, you only lost $200 a year.
Did anyone with a refundable reservation ever get their money back?

 

[Rickb]

Hey JD, if your non-refundable reservation was for $1000, you only lost $200 a year.
Did anyone with a refundable reservation ever get their money back?

I did. I requested and received my refundable reservation deposit immediately after EM failed to use the Reg A+ $15 Million funding round for their stated purpose........$13 Million needed to build the 25 Elio prototypes for testing, a process that would take 4-6 weeks to obtain the various component parts from Elio suppliers and 4-6 weeks to build. The stated funding required for completing that all important prototype build and testing stage of development was why people invested in EM stock options. Also, EM stated that testing data would have been used to validate claims made on their ATVM Loan Application.

 

[ecdriver711]

Still with it!

 

[Made in USA]

Still have hope, but the real question is for how long? For me, probably until I either can't drive anymore, or until a better idea is made. Tesla? No. I'm not against battery powered vehicles, but not wanting high tech computers. Simple is good.

 

[84mpg]

Yep.... a condenser and points were pretty cheap and easy.

 

[RSchneider]

Instead of moping around and kicking yourself in the butt, how about come up with real solutions? This forum is full of smart people that have many years of experience. Why not have a "Hey Paul" section? You need to remember, Paul probably gets 2 hours of sleep every night and wakes up the next morning to find that he's in the same position he was the day before. So, posting things like "scam" or "I gave up" do nothing at all. I bet Paul comes here a few times a day just to see what is going on. That's because any other public feedback is pretty much dead. Paul will never admit he comes here because if he did, there would be a constant complaint section beating that same dead horse.

Suggestions. How about what you'd put up with? If it gave 75 mpg, would that be good enough? If that $7K you locked in got raised to $8K, would you still buy? What if there were 3 different option packages and the Elio My Way was eliminated? There are many things that I bet people could suggest. Just please don't cherry pick one of my examples and then go off on a tangent. Those were only examples of what you can come up with, not set in stone points that must be done.

How about it? Because if you turn it into another complaint session, it'll get deleted and that does nobody any good and it will not get you your Elio any faster. In reality, it does the opposite. There's nothing wrong about being critical but what has been done in the past has been done and you can;t change it. The situation they sit at today can't be changed unless they know that you the Elio owners are willing to give in a bit and won't be hanging Paul because he didn't do everything 100% of what you worked up in your mind as Elio ownership.