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Originally Posted by redpoint5
Elio cars will never be a thing. Perhaps I'm wrong, but I don't think these "inventors" are so much interested in developing compelling technology so much as making a profit.
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Maybe I'm giving Elio to much credit because he went to the same engineering school I did but I see it as naivety. People that don't work in the auto industry simply do not understand the massive amount of tooling required to manufacture an automobile. We are talking $750 million to $2 billion to tool up.
If you look at Paul Elio's resume you can see he was way out of his depth trying to build a mass production car. He graduated from GMI with his engineering degree, worked at Johnson Controls for 2 years and then started Elio.