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Old 08-05-2015, 01:33 AM   #1111 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by ME_Andy View Post
People don't understand how hard it is to raise capital, or how much tooling and engineering it takes to make a large quantity of anything. The engineering effort that would go into adapting a motorcycle engine as a temporary Band-Aid solution is way too much effort, IMO.
Using an engine that is already commercially-available (and there is a plenty of them that would fulfill the needs in an Elio) would still make more sense than blowing money developing an all-new engine which project would consume that hard-raised capital in a way too fast. They should have left this stage for a later upgraded version.

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