Reservations: 65341 As Of 6/20/2017

[NorTracNY]

I'm considering the LA autoshow a flop if the E1-C doesn't have Elio reach 65K by the 1st of December. You're always going to have a jump when you come close to a cutoff. $100 to freeze the price of an Elio where they have a complete engineering model.

 

[Coss]

I'm considering the LA autoshow a flop if the E1-C doesn't have Elio reach 65K by the 1st of December. You're always going to have a jump when you come close to a cutoff. $100 to freeze the price of an Elio where they have a complete engineering model.

I don't think I remember a huge jump after last years unveiling of the P5 after all of the build up it had; It went up a little, but not 3K in 2+ weeks. Yes, it could happen, but I wouldn't be disappointed if it doesn't.

 

[NorTracNY]

In my mind there is a world of difference between a prototype and an engineering model. When I saw the P4, I was reminded by the Elio guy I spoke with just how far the Elio was from production. The P4 was just a close replica that could be driven of what the Elio is. The completion of an engineering model is VERY close to the final product. You can sit in it and should notice very little different from what they produce on the line.

Elio should now be viewed as a company that has a product, that needs the capital to produce it. Before an engineering model, they are a company that has an idea which they are developing and working towards production. Paul is very close to his day. I suspect he has 6-9months to gain the funding necessary or it's over. I'm hoping he has it by March. Unfortunately, Paul would not say how long after funding is secured that production would start.

This thread has been moved...............

 

[AriLea]

I'm considering the LA autoshow a flop if the E1-C doesn't have Elio reach 65K by the 1st of December. You're always going to have a jump when you come close to a cutoff. $100 to freeze the price of an Elio where they have a complete engineering model.

I'm thinking it's more about the result of the ATVM once the 65k res's are in. And to keep the needed momentum up, I also think 65k does need to happen this year or close to it. If production doesn't happen in 2017 or 1stQ of 2018 it all becomes more doubtful pretty quickly.

After 20k res were first found, the bottleneck has always been about funding. Success elsewhere just adds into the likely hood.

 

[Coss]

This seems as good a place as any for my post, NorTracNY has mentioned some things that I wanted to ask about. Coss, you can move this to another thread as appropriate.

How about a nice summary of the progress of things. Everyone chime in as desired:

• The 100 pre-production vehicles: the idea of them being done in December is history, yes? Is there a latest target date?
• In Elio's original plan showing the months and what milestones they wanted to hit, what month are we in... is it about Month 8 now?
• Other than the seat manufacturer, are there any other suppliers committed to setting up in the Shreveport plant?
• The 65,000 reservations amount was established by EM as the limit for folks who can get a locked base price; do we have any information on what EM will do once the 65,000 reservations are reached? I always viewed it as a way to generate some demand and more reservations, but I'm curious if we have a good idea of what EM plans after that.
• How many engineering vehicles do we know have been completed? I believe the first one was done in July.
  
• What's the most recent good news / milestone reached / encouraging event?

I'd love to move it to just Elio General Discussion; but I don't have the ability to move single posts.
You'll have to do this by COPY, DELETE open Elio General Discussion and either start a new thread (Recommended) or find another thread it will fit into. This is a thread about Reservations and it's one of the longest on the board at 315 pages.

NorTracNY I have to ask you to do the same with your post, once Jeff Porter starts the thread, post your follow up there, and delete it in here.

Or I can do the delete if you can't.

I do agree, it really doesn't belong in this thread.

 

[Rob Croson]

I'd love to move it to just Elio General Discussion; but I don't have the ability to move single posts.

Split the thread, then move the new-formed thread.

 

[Coss]

Split the thread, then move the new-formed thread.

Not on the list of tools, otherwise I would.

 

[Officespaced]

How often does the registation counter update? It's been at 3.150 to go all week.

 

[slinches]

Last couple of weeks have been one update on Monday mornings.

 

[Coss]

How often does the registation counter update? It's been at 3.150 to go all week.

Which was surprising when they first started doing it on a regular basis; before it couple be once a week, or two weeks or three couple of times it was once a month in the early start up.
They started this once a week around April of this year.