Wow! Our latest round of fundraising continues to exceed our expectations!

In under a month, nearly 300 investors have already helped Eli raise $300k. To everyone that has supported us so far, thank you! We’re so humbled that so many people share our vision of the future of urban mobility.

At this stage we are putting most of our efforts into actually building our vehicles, so your investment will make it possible for us to bring more of our first model, Eli ZERO, onto the streets.

We’re well on track to meet our fundraising targets and we don’t want anyone to miss out, so INVEST NOW to take advantage of our exclusive first-month bonus offer — ending soon!

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Eli was a winner of this year’s iF DESIGN AWARD, the world-renowned design prize. 

Eli ZERO won over the 98-member jury, made up of independent experts from all over the world. 

In order to create a category-defining mobility experience, we had to start from scratch, challenge automotive conventions, rethink the structure, material, and techniques down to parts and details. 

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A Closer Look at Eli ZERO's Design Details

Frameless Doors

Inspired by architectural curtain walls, Eli ZERO’s frameless glass doors are designed to blur the line between interior and exterior— to make this design possible, we have achieved process breakthroughs in precision-forming and integrated assembly.

Integrated Headlight Assembly

For a neighborhood vehicle as compact as Eli ZERO, the headlights both dominate the extrinsic form and informs the intrinsic character of the entire vehicle. The lighting assembly seamlessly integrated into the vehicle design, appeared to be negatively formed through an opening stretched across the front, slightly tilted on the sides to express a sense of friendliness. 

Specialty Structure and Materials 

We have tailor-developed unique body-on-frame processes and techniques for building compact urban EVs. The hybrid aluminum frame combined with panels of a variety of reinforced composites reduces vehicle weight to improve energy efficiency and increases versatility for exterior design and material adoption.

Spacious Interior

The connected side-by-side seating feels more like a sofa than a chair. The minimalistic dashboard design makes the interior feel streamlined and spacious. The frameless glass doors with minimal structural obstruction allow an expanded field of vision. When it comes to buttons and clicks, we believe less is more: Eli’s intuitive control focuses only on the essential features that really matter.

And for us at Eli, this is just the first of many more models to come As this iconic vehicle began its production this year. With your support, we hope to keep pushing for design innovations, and bring more category-defining products to reality.

Invest Today! Become an early investor at Eli Electric!

Hi 👋 Hope y’all had a great weekend!

Lots had happened since our campaign launch two weeks ago! With questions pouring in, we decided to start a FAQ series alongside our exciting news and updates! This week, we want to talk about Small-Batch Production, one of the most critical milestones for an EV startup. 🎉

Small-Batch production is a term used to describe a limited-volume production run. After many rounds of off-tool samples and test production, our team is excited to finally arrive at this stage, where thousands of production parts are being put together into final production vehicles.

Small-Batch Production is crucial because it ensures the quality of early-stage deliveries. During this process, we closely coordinate a large number of external partners, re-align them and our internal team to transition from development towards production, and improve our organizational and logistical capability. Although we are building in limited quantities at this stage, stringent road test is performed on each vehicle— each vehicle is tested for 2 days on the test track before they are signed off to final inspection.

There are many good concepts in the micromobility space, but bringing a concept to prototype and a prototype to production is each their own enormous challenge. As you can probably tell, we are very proud to be where we are — over the years, we’ve built our supply chain from the ground up, and accumulated specialty know-hows in building micro-EVs with limited capital resources, and stayed frugal, agile, and efficient in order to take Eli ZERO to production. We’re humbled to have gotten here, and really appreciate our investors' support to make this happen. 

As we're preparing and building more vehicles for the European market entry, your continuous support makes us stronger! If you have not invested yet, for a limited time only, you are still eligible to receive bonus shares.

Join us today, and let's revolutionize urban mobility!

Our campaign has only opened for TWO weeks,  we are humbled by all the positive feedback we are receiving and truly appreciate all of your support!

This past week, Eli was featured in Treehugger, Inside, and a few more press. Our founder Marcus Li shared many behind-the-scene stories on this thrilling ride to bring Eli ZERO to production.

Ready to become an early investor in Eli Electric? For a limited time, you can still take advantage of an exclusive bonus that applies to ANY investment amount.  ⚡️We hope you could join us on this exciting ride! 

Wow! We reached the minimum funding goal in JUST 2 HOURS after our campaign opens, $150k was raised in less than 24 hours — even before we are able to complete this update to announce our raise!

THANK YOU, Eli Family! 💪

Why are we launching a new round of equity offering? 

1. Eli is for EVERYONE. 

Even after we closed our last round of convertible note raise, inquiries continued pouring in. We decided to open our first round of Equity crowdfunding with exciting updates and milestones achieved this year, bringing Eli ZERO from prototype to production.

Our new equity offering gives anyone who shares our vision an opportunity to become an early investor in Eli. We hope that in the near future, you can come across an Eli ZERO in your neighborhood, and be proud as an investor from the start.

2. Your investment increases our production!

Our first vehicle is not just a concept or prototype. We are already building Eli ZERO in limited quantities. However, we have received MORE interest than we can build, which is a good problem to have. Your investment can help us build and ship more vehicles to the market!

3. Operational expansion

As Eli enters the European market through our distributors, we plan to expand our operations to better facilitate Eli's global sales and support.

At this stage, we are putting most of our efforts into actually building our vehicles rather than on promotion, so we hope you can help us spread the word and also join us as a shareholder in this round!

For a limited time, you can take advantage of an exclusive bonus that applies to ANY investment amount. Click the button below, and let's build a different kind of EV brand together! ⚡️