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Old 01-27-2016, 02:13 PM   #1324 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Fat Charlie View Post
Tesla was a moonshot luxury sportscar with a newly invented powertrain. Elio is a trike with a roof. Their mule only cost as much as they wanted it to cost.
Heck, the Elio probably has under 2000 parts in their BOM, probably less parts to build the whole car than tesla takes to assemble a battery module.

Add to this as soon as elio produces a car that meets the MPG and cost metric their party is over as the demand probably isn't there.
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