I'm glad to see them taking a serious engineering approach to this vehicle, with their brief on-topic videos being a nice modern approach to describing their product. Significant improvement over the original Corbin Sparrow (note that I changed the thread title)! Although he did discuss "no maintenance" (except there are brake and windshield washer fluid and tire pressures to check), I hope they take design for maintainability and manufacturability seriously (that's one of the areas that sunk the original Corbin Sparrow).
My wife and I each had a Sparrow as our local daily driver until we got the i-MiEV - after all, it was the only freeway-legal 'production' vehicle you could buy in that timeframe. Considering that, by far, the majority of cars out there have only one person in them, the small all-electric single-seater makes eminent sense.
In a culture presently obsessed with 'safety', I'm interested in seeing how they address that specific issue, as that is still the second-most-asked question by curious bystanders when I take the Sparrow into town.
The other thing is body styling - whereas the Sparrow is 'cute' (women, especially teenage girls, think it's adorable) it does not engender seriousness and thus a more-aggressive stance may allow the Elektra Meccanica to cater to a wider demographic.
After all is said and done, I'll be surprised if they can sell it for under $20K.