To be real!, the EV debate always gets mixed up with dream worship.I had to laugh when I got almost to the end of the story and read...........
........"But as one commenter noted, perhaps the Elio should have been a lightweight electric vehicle."..........
Sorry, but if the Elio was an electric vehicle with the typical range of an electric vehicle I would not be interested, at any price.
Sure we all want EV's so long as it costs less to buy, less to use, goes farther, quicker, and recharges faster (than refueling). The EV rhetoric pro or con chooses when to ignore those items or call them out. Usually at the times most likely to confuse the discussion.