"A rather long, but interesting comment about Atlis Motors you may find interesting, from QAD.WISTIA --------(Archived by administrator, May 01, 2022)   (begin) Just a few comments from my observations of over the past 7 years when AMV began as "Volta Motors LLC, of Mesa (602) 309-5425” (Google it) .  Folks, AMV is falling behind, but you can still make a lot of money quickly as shareholders.  AMV was just able to cobble together a plywood-Styrofoam truck to show for the latest crowd-funding rounds.  It does not drive per expectations, cannot tow anything, has no operating windows, air bags, weather seals, turn signal steering wheel stalk, windshield wipers, proper windshield safety glass, roll down windows, air conditioning-heating system, compressor-air tank installation, inverters, SAE approved mirrors or exterior lighting, tires and wheels that meet the load rating, spare tire carrier, never been tested on a dyno or with an AMV battery pack, So far AMV has never even produced a complete battery pack, they claimed futuristic, unbelievable specifications six years ago for non-existent hardware, have no charging pedestals, or have an electrical service entrance to their facility (currently 600A, 277/480V, not even 300kW) large enough to develop and test a claimed 1.5MW charging system, just to mention a few deficiencies.  The XT Prototype has never been seen driving on the road at highway speeds or towing anything, its limit seems to be under 2MPH traveling a few feet on level smooth ground.  AMV does not own a bi-directional chassis dynamometer which is necessary for vehicle and battery road simulation performance testing. No independent laboratory test have ever been conducted, on the vehicle, cells, battery modules or pack or chassis, nothing has never been shown at a trade or auto show. Virtually nothing on the prototype vehicle is an example of anything close to "production ready" it would never pass crash testing or SAE standards. 30 patents claimed are just "applications" costing less than $100 to file and not requiring working models.  AMV specializes in promotional videos that claim to be scientific tests.  AMV claims to have generated over $1.2B in contracted commitments for XT pickup trucks, this is the value of "free, no deposit reservations"; there is no cash value.  AMV claims to have MOU's and LOI's, for over $400MM in battery pack interest but has never published the names of the actuall organizations.  They claim to have Government contracts for their technology but have never disclosed any details or documents. Their cell design is being surpassed by the BYD Blade Cell which has superior performance, cost and safety attributes, is currently in production and available to purchase and used in numerous vehicles. BYD has positioned themselves to make billions of cells, has production factories that cover 100’s of acres of land, 250,000 employees, has world-wide patents publicly available, and is becoming the industry standard.  AMV is attempting to make a cell production facility out of 2 X 4's, plastic sheeting and a shipping container, which is laughable.  They seem to be on their 5th revision of their basic cell, the 4th revision of their motors and 7th revision of their 1.5MW charging connector with no real test data on any of these devices ever revealed.  Over 20 key employees have left the company despite pay rates in the 6 figure area.  The days of an individual or small company producing a complex vehicle seems to be over.  You may see AMV's attempt to survive by farming out the body, cells, motors, drive system and other components to experts or buying off the shelf components.  Over 20 highly paid key people have recently left AMV, including: Huda lmashhadany, Head of Energy; Eric Anderson, Electrical Technician; Kenneth Baca, Senior Firmware Engineer; Anirudh (Ani) Bhokarika, Mechanical Engineer - Battery Cell Division; Ching-Yen Chung, Lead Mechanical Engineer; Ross Compton, Lead Vehicle Designer - XT Program; Christopher Dawson, Vice President of Manufacturing Engineering; Jack Al Ferzly, Head of Energy and Director of Pack Development; Craig Trzebny,Director of Energy Engineer;  Kishor Satish Gaikwad, Power Electronics; Bassam Raza, Senior Electrical Engineer; Keith Rose, Senior Mechanical Engineer; Michael Konstas, Chief Financial Officer, and Tamica Sears, VP of Talent, and Matthew Wilkins, Senior Design Lead, Chief Financial Officers Glenn Reese and Greg Hassler, more to research and follow.  Web information was gathered from Linkedin, Glassdoor, Rocketreach, Facebook, Twitter, Signalhire, Apollo, and Zoominfo and others.  If ever produced, AMV vehicles will not be cost effective, and be too expensive to be competitive.  Watch for the next Crowdfunding Round, you can make money by manipulating the shares, by low, sell high. People have made thousands already.  As far as actual hardware, the XT, XP, Cube Cell, and 15 minute charging are all products that live in the computerized imaginary world of CGI. These are products of the future, and always will be. If you are interested in current real EV engineering and on the road technology currently available visit the “Monro Live” (48,250,000+ channel views and the “WeberAuto (33,000,000+ channel views)  ... a final thought, you may want to visit AMV' World Headquarters in Mesa to see what's going on. (end)   REFF: https://qad.wistia.com/medias/w688ohft8w?hss_channel=fbp-1586124775024416"