Just got notified I'm on the list for a FUV coming to the Hagerstown area.
Hello everyone!!!
So excited.

To date we have driven almost 500 miles, most in and around town. Ventured out today for a warm weather “backroad” road trip which ended up being 37 total miles. All flat ground. Started with a full 90% charge and those 37 miles, mostly at 50-55 mph, brought us down to 37% remaining charge. The literature suggests 66 road miles or 100 around town miles are available on the FUV. Seems like most advertising, a bit of an exaggeration. It is clear that to go anywhere near the represented available distance you would need to use extended range mode. We were just curious about the experience of others in terms of how far they felt they could drive on a single charge.

Greetings: after a test drive and overnight rental, placed an order about Aug 1. Took delivery in Eugene 32 days later. That was a pleasant surprise given the 90-120 day wait suggested in the online order materials. Now a month later and 350 miles, things are going great. Had a very positive Arcimoto service experience. The FUV came with doors, which came off immediately, with difficulty. The service appointment adjusted the door locking tabs to solve the removal difficulty. The doors seem like they will be a real advantage in inclement weather, but are not for summer. The local utility provided a $500 rebate offsetting the cost of a level 2 charger install. Anybody out there have any info on the $2500 Oregon Clean Vehicle Rebate applying to the 2022 FUV? The state says it should/might and they believe Arcimoto is working on getting the correct information to them. Arcimoto says they are working on it. The 2020 and 21 year models qualified. “Working on it” is not reassuring given that it is now October 2022. It would be helpful to know who to contact at Arcimoto to see if this will actually move forward. There is a concern now about Arcimoto given recent news of furloughs and cutbacks. Hopefully, it will survive. It is amazing to just have fun driving again.

Hi Everyone!
    I’ve been following Arcimoto since 2017, and have had a reservation since they began taking them. I just ordered an FUV, expected to be delivered here in Tampa in October or November. 
     My wife and I are really looking forward to getting it, just in time for the (slightly) cooler fall weather here. I’m actually in Palm Harbor, and if any other folks in the area want to offer advice, tips, or just chat about the ownership experience, please PM me, I’d love to get a jump on everything prior to delivery.

Ride Safe!

Best,
Kevin

Oregonian News Link

Probably related:
Arcimoto founder arrested on suspicion of DUII 3 weeks before company removed him as CEO (Oregonian news link.)

I wonder if the Oregonian reached out for comment on the second story, so Arcimoto replaced him before the go-live on the DUII story?

After three years with the black ripstop-nylon soft doors, my FUV's hard doors are finally installed, and the (vinyl) design is complete!

  

Hail Cascadia!

(Just waiting on the transport from factory back home.)

After nearly a year of waiting, I'm finally getting scheduled to replace my rag-doors with hard doors.

Kind of conflicted - the rag doors are fun simple things, with storage pockets, that are quick to remove when desired, quick to put back on, and light and breezy for summer use. (Or spring/fall when you may drive through puddles, but don't want full doors.) But, sadly, the mounting mechanism is apparently different, so I won't be able to keep my soft doors when they put the hard doors on.

The hard doors *are* removable, but not nearly as easily. And the hard doors definitely will make the vehicle look "more finished". Plus, the upcoming soft-vinyl-window uppers will be compatible with the hard half doors, allowing for a Jeep-like "full door" for winter use when they start shipping the uppers without needing to replace the entire doors again.

As for the delay? The biggest delay for me personally has been the fact that I have one of the few silver-body FUVs. They switched to only black as the base color a while ago, so they've only been forming black doors for now. But they finally got the silver set up to match the silver on the early-shipped FUVs, so they're making the batch of silver doors now.

That, and I'll be getting a custom vinyl design, which is stalling it by a couple more weeks. (If I just wanted plain silver doors, I'd have it done next week.)

Sorry, but the "EV but not FUV" area of the forum seems to be broken, so ...

A couple of weeks ago when I was driving through my neighborhood (SF Bay Area) and saw an ElectraMeccanica Solo parked in somebody's driveway. My head whipped around so fast that I almost got whiplash !! Apparently they have finally started customer deliveries. 5-6 years after they were supposed to be shipping. (originally).

Also, I have seen TWO Rivian EV pickups in the past month. 

I am hoping that 2022 will be the breakout year for EVs. Ford pretty much stole everybody's thunder with their announcement of the F150 EV *at virtually the same price* as the gas version.

basically here are a few scientific facts FUV enthusiasts might want to share





PS FWIW these PNG files are sized to print as 4" x 6" postcard

Yesterday a friend has washed my FUV (what are friends for..) using a small pressure washer (yeah, I know grrr).  Since then I have not been able to ride.
it will turn on, go through the start-up procedure. And that is all.  It shows the wrong charge, has the 12V batttery indicator in red, does not move from neutral to drive or
reverse, shows 78% charge when it was 90% before the wash, does not take charge if you plug it in. 
I did a hard reset 3 times.  That did not do it.  Any ideas anybody please?  I am in tears here.