If Elio Motors wants to sell its three-wheeled vehicle to the masses, it'll need motorcycle-license laws to change. Well, good news. Super-fuel-efficient-vehicle startup Elio Motors has 41 states ...

But nearly a decade after his company, Elio Motors, unveiled a prototype vehicle, not a single car has been produced, leaving tens of thousands of depositors alternately wondering, waiting or fuming.

Troubled three-wheel car startup Elio Motors is getting a $2.5 million lifeline from online retailer Overstock.com to help it pay off debts and accounts payable and fund capital expenditures.