What Do We Know About The Elio Chassis?

[goofyone]

There is some weight penalty

did somebody say weight penalty?

http://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/policy/cars-weigh-too-much?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed: IeeeSpectrumEnergy (IEEE Spectrum: Energy)

All those creature comforts and government mandated requirements do indeed come with extra weight which must be added to the vehicle.

 

[Jim H]

did somebody say weight penalty?

http://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/policy/cars-weigh-too-much?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed: IeeeSpectrumEnergy (IEEE Spectrum: Energy)

All those creature comforts and government mandated requirements do indeed come with extra weight which must be added to the vehicle.

We also have to acknowledge that some this increased weight comes from government mandated safety and performance standards.

 

[pistonboy]

'Naked' P4 rolling chassis here.

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It is my understanding that this is actually very close to what they intend to do on the production chassis however it is still missing some details and some refinement some of which can be seen when comparing it to the crash simulation images I included below.

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Impressive information!

Obviously, Goofyone, you have connections!

I've only had the insufficient metal problem once with my bike. But once was enough! Maybe the steel wheels and engine and steel tubing will be enough to trigger stop light sensors.

I've only had the insufficient metal problem once with my bike. But once was enough! Maybe the steel wheels and engine and steel tubing will be enough to trigger stop light sensors.

 

[Chaz]

As for the loop sensors many are being replaced with cameras, which in the long run are easier to maintain. This is becuase you don't have to tear up the street to fix one, they also change the lights for people on bicycles. I run into this problem because most of my bikes are carbon fiber with only the crankset and rims being metal.

 

[RKing]

Elio at 1250lbs with me in it gets a 5 ratio. 6 if you load it up to 1500 lbs.

• 0.1 for a 7-kg bicycle.

• 1.6 for Italy’s 110-kg Vespa scooter.

• 5 My Elio

• 5 or less for a modern bus, such as those based on New Flyer’s designs (and that’s just if you count sitting passengers).

• 7.3 for France’s 510-kg Citroën 2CV (“deux chevaux,” or two horses), back in the 1950s.

• 7.7 for the Model T and also for Japan’s Shinkansen, or bullet train, which celebrated its 50th anniversary in October. The train’s frugal ratio owes as much to design as it does to a high ridership rate.

• 12 for a Smart car, 16 for a Mini Cooper, 18 for my own Honda Civic LX, 20 and change for the Toyota Camry.

• 26 for the average American light-duty vehicle in 2013.

Efficient in MANY ways !

 

[goofyone]

Impressive information!

Obviously, Goofyone, you have connections!

Actually all of those images are available on EM's Instagram account: http://instagram.com/theeliomotors

I may sometimes have a few birdies chirping in my ears however the majority of the information I have to share comes from direct conversations with the wonderful EM folks on the road tour and also from scouring EM's official information sources:

Blog: http://www.eliomotors.com/blog/

Tech Talk: http://www.eliomotors.com/category/tech-talk/ and http://www.elioowners.com/threads/tech-talk-archive.1128/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ElioMotors

Twitter: https://twitter.com/eliomotors

Instagram: http://instagram.com/theeliomotors

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/eliomotors

Google+: https://plus.google.com/+ElioMotors1/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/elio-motors

 

[EZ]

I am so VERY excited to know more about Louisiana in this weeks news breaking development on the progress of the vehicle.

 

[pistonboy]

Actually all of those images are available on EM's Instagram account: http://instagram.com/theeliomotors

I may sometimes have a few birdies chirping in my ears however the majority of the information I have to share comes from direct conversations with the wonderful EM folks on the road tour and also from scouring EM's official information sources:

Blog: http://www.eliomotors.com/blog/

Tech Talk: http://www.eliomotors.com/category/tech-talk/ and http://www.elioowners.com/threads/tech-talk-archive.1128/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ElioMotors

Twitter: https://twitter.com/eliomotors

Instagram: http://instagram.com/theeliomotors

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/eliomotors

Google+: https://plus.google.com/ ElioMotors1/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/elio-motors

Thank you sooo much. I thought the EM site was the ultimate authority for information. I did not know they had distributed their information over many different sites. I suspect these are all listed somewhere in the EM home website but I overlooked them. Thank you very much.

 

[BADBOY]

I've not seen any Elio stuff on this. So we're kinda stuck with your the indy looking illustration and at least it points to the right direction though the pipes you have here looks way too beefy to be accurate.
I really am juiced to see we're going steel tubing or something like it. Square tubing is not as strong as round tubing but I'll take either.

I have a trivia question. Where Was tubular steel first used as a vehicle construction material?

in Superman's escape vehicle from planet Krypton. Also first vehicle to have a roll bar, sun roof and seat belt. IIRC, there was no air bag or gas cap. It was an automatic.

 

[outsydthebox]

If you're a scale modeler you'll wet your pant at the sight of this lipoly brushless electric motor powered model flying indoors no less. Retract, running lights flaps and all. Scale models are hardest pressed to fly in a realistic scale speed. So be impressed ......very impressed.

That is beautiful! More like a dirigible with wings but it flies very realistically. Thanks for the vid.