Elio is dead to me, but hope YOU take delivery someday. I bought the Arcimoto FUV (anticipated delivery July/August 2019 forward looking statement) after following Elio for a decade of delay, delay, delay, and still no test drive Elio or progress, but something to think about:
Both Tesla ($35K) and Arcimoto ($11,900) delayed offering their most affordable base model vehicles and forced to roll out fully optioned models to insure a level of profitability at a time when a company is burning through cash to get a new vehicle to market. Arcimoto, “We can’t sell $11,900 base model FUVs at a loss, or won’t be able to stay in business. We are planning to offer the base model later when production scale allows it. Thanks for understanding.” I wasn’t happy about either announcement, but it is understandable business logic.
Do you seriously think EM could honor the $500 +- discounts on the base model or even a fully a loaded Elio offered to lock-in reservationists, based on the already low profit margins on the first 65,000 vehicles to roll off the assembly line and stay in business?
The bigger question is, if Elio made it to the production start line and the only way they could start production was to waive the discounts and offer a $15-20K fully loaded Elio would you buy it?