Why buy an electric car that costs at least $40,000 when you can buy a brand new America Made, 84 MPG, ELIO for $6,800?
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Here's an interesting article that compares the Tesla to the Elio...
A Tale Of Two Car Companies - EPautos
The Elio is not sexy. It is a thumb in the eye to everything the Tesla is and stands for.
It is practical; an ideal city car/commuter car well-suited for getting around in busy urban traffic and which can be parked pretty much anywhere a motorcycle fits.
It is cheap. A new car for just under $7k – or about half the price of the typical economy compact sedan and about a fifth the cost of a Tesla 3.
Which also means it costs less to insure.
Most of all – and unlike the Tesla – the Elio is economical. Eighty-plus MPG renders the cost of gas a near-irrelevance, even if it doubles. And makes the Tesla look ridiculous, if the criteria is economy.
Or even “saving the planet.”
How much less energy goes into making an Elio? It does not have hundreds of pounds of lethally noxious chemical batteries that required Earth rape to obtain. Nor does it depend upon C02-producing utility plants for its motive power.
But most of all, it is a car that many people could simply write a check for – that is, bought outright, no loan. No debt. And that is anathema to the Banksters who run the country and who push Teslas via the media they own, the bought-and-paid-for parrots who read the Tele-e-Prompters and know what the Talking Points are.
Can’t have people not chained to beefy monthly payments for the next seven years. Can’t have a car that doesn’t include multi-leveled kickbacks of other people’s money (i.e., “incentives”) to make each “sale.”
The Elio is sane.
A car ideally suited to every consideration of our times.
The Tesla, insane.
It touts the fact that it uses no gasoline, so no worries about the cost of gas. But you pay (with “help” from Uncle) $35,000-plus to “save” on the cost of fuel.
It touts performance – quick acceleration. But if its ability to accelerate quickly is used much, the car’s range is reduced a lot. What good is a quick car that can’t go very far?
But it’s sexy – and it’s “green” – and that makes it politically appealing, even if it’s utterly ridiculous as an economic proposition, absurd as a machine and noxious as as an example of the most grotesque manifestation of crony capitalism I’m aware of – exceeding even the effrontery of the ethanol lobby.
. Most American men wouldn't be caught dead in an electric vehicle just on principle.......just a fact.
