They are planning to sell 250k/yr at a retail price of $6800 so even pennies matter. They bought a closed GM plant and keep saying they are about ready to production...but they have WAY too little money. They need $230M and have about $30M so they are looking for a $185M loan from the US gov under the same gov program that Tesla used to get started.
Part of the $30M they have came fro pre-sales similar to the kickstarer model. They have taken 38,408 orders so far, I'm about #25k. They have 100-1000 levels in refundable or "all in" and the first deliveries will be based on you level. I did $100 all in and got a T shirt
....but I strongly suspect that is all I'll ever get