Reservations: 65341 As Of 6/20/2017

[Ty]

Ty, the idea of adding another line. Imploding my mind. Wouldn't that be a sure-fire sign that EM is successful?

They'd have to be VERY successful to add another line. Think about all the state of the art equipment that GM left behind that Elio picked up for a song. They'd have to go out and purchase an entire factory worth of equipment. Well, all the handling stuff, anyway. Plus, that big line that moves the vehicles along is pretty much a part of the facility. Thinking about it, I don't think they could add another line in that factory without shutting down operations for several months. It'd make more sense to run 3 shifts even if they were forced to truncate a couple of shifts to enable a repair shift or at least a couple of hours to lube up parts that can't be moving while they are serviced.

1,066 per day would be quite a few Elios and 16 hours of Line time producing one per 54 seconds is reasonable. 5,333 per week... 266,666 per year would probably be enough capacity. The trick will be getting engine blocks and other assorted parts into the place fast enough and the cars distributed fast enough.

 

[outsydthebox]

They'd have to be VERY successful to add another line. Think about all the state of the art equipment that GM left behind that Elio picked up for a song. They'd have to go out and purchase an entire factory worth of equipment. Well, all the handling stuff, anyway. Plus, that big line that moves the vehicles along is pretty much a part of the facility. Thinking about it, I don't think they could add another line in that factory without shutting down operations for several months. It'd make more sense to run 3 shifts even if they were forced to truncate a couple of shifts to enable a repair shift or at least a couple of hours to lube up parts that can't be moving while they are serviced.

1,066 per day would be quite a few Elios and 16 hours of Line time producing one per 54 seconds is reasonable. 5,333 per week... 266,666 per year would probably be enough capacity. The trick will be getting engine blocks and other assorted parts into the place fast enough and the cars distributed fast enough.

Ty, you were there, right? With the H3's I assume the "line" was quite long, that there were many stations. With the Elio being so much "simpler", would it be possible to run two shorter lines "end-to-end"? instead of side-by-side ".....In series instead of parallel?

 

[John Texas]

My reservation is in the 25,000 range (Aug. 15, 2014). I hope I can get one the first year. I would imagine the regulatory headaches with a new car AND car company must be enormous!!! Keep at it Paul, we want our P4's!!!!!

 

[Jambe]

Glad to have you on the forum John.
That number (25,000) is your order number. You will receive a registration number in the next few days--at least that is what we are hoping for.
We don't want P4s, we want P5s.

 

[LockMD]

You don't want either they are prototypes

 

[Smitty901]

1000 dollars T shirt arrived today . Nice T shirt and American made. Still no reservation number.

 

[AriLea]

You don't want either they are prototypes

Got ya! .. K, we want a '2015' Elio, but we'll get a 2016 model year. (in 2015 for some number of us, hopefully)

 

[Macadamean]

1000 dollars T shirt arrived today . Nice T shirt and American made. Still no reservation number.

How long did it take you to get it?

 

[Jambe]

You don't want either they are prototypes

Take it a step at a time. We want P5s so they can get it right, then we want the final model.

As for 2015 vs 2016, I was told by Elio Motors that they will be titled as 2016s.

 

[Smitty901]

How long did it take you to get it?

12 days