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Lots of driving today, many fun interactions. |
Posted by: CharonPDX - 06-05-2021, 03:12 AM - Forum: General FUV Discussion
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Bought something off Craigslist. Drove my FUV. I always wear my Arcimoto baseball cap when I drive it. Pulled up to the seller's house, parked on the curb, walked up his steps to the front door, knocked. Seller opened the door, saw my hat - "Oh, hey, an Arcimoto fan! Do you have an order for one? I have stock in them!"
Step to my side, so he can see my FUV parked at the curb behind me "Well, actually…"
First time I've seen a grown man (late 50s, early 60s) "squee!" so hard. "Can I...?.?"
"Yeah, you can go take a look."
Spent a good 15 minutes discussing Arcimoto with him. :-D
Did a second Cragislist-purchase-run later, and this person didn't have quite the same reaction, but knew what it was, and absolutely wanted to take pictures and ask questions to convince his spouse to get one. :-D
Had 9-10 people ask me about it while stopped in traffic. Got "beeps of support", thumbs-up, or similar from another dozenish people. Including a guy in a Ferrari California with the top down.
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Third time is a charm |
Posted by: Tom Liberatore - 04-26-2021, 01:22 AM - Forum: Introduce Yourself
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Hello,
I've been trying to post an introduction without much success, Greetings from Mendocino County, CA! We already have a couple of Arcimoto's here and the one that I've got coming in mid May should be the third. I'm looking forward to meeting your community as well as spreading the Arcimoto word around here. I've ridden bikes my whole life but now at age 72 plus having MS I am ready for something that won’t fall over.
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LOL. Just got a "have you heard of Arcimoto" unsolicited investment email. |
Posted by: CharonPDX - 03-05-2021, 03:42 PM - Forum: Arcimoto Company and Stock
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Some investment/finance firm that apparently caters to the wealthy, "family foundations," and the like sent me an unsolicited email touting Arcimoto, and how they can introduce me to Mark.
I'm not sure what's worse - the fact that they're marketing to me, when I'm definitely not in their target audience; or that they're marketing to me a company I'm already fully involved with?
I don't know if I should let Arcimoto investor relations know about this unknown company shilling them; or reply back to them directly sarcastically.
Huh. And the same company just sent me another email, completely unrelated to Arcimoto. So apparently I just happened to end up on their mailing list just in time to receive their Arcimoto push.
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New guy here! |
Posted by: Buckerew - 02-01-2021, 05:05 PM - Forum: Introduce Yourself
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Hello from Cocoa Florida. I was an early adopter of Tesla and now Arcimodo. Also an early stock owner in both! Anxiously awaiting its arrival!
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FUV gets 173.7 MPGe ??? |
Posted by: ben - 12-14-2020, 08:01 PM - Forum: Technical Discussion
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The FUV can reach a top speed of 75 mph (121 km/h) and sports an estimated city range of 102.5 miles (165 km). Arcimoto claims that the FUV reaches an efficiency of 173.7 MPGe.
https://electrek.co/2020/11/30/arcimoto-...c-vehicle/
just wondering under what conditions does the FUV reach an efficiency of 173.7 MPGe the reason I ask is have a gut feeling that overall in the real world its actually much less?!
this is because for sake of argument lets say the high voltage battery in the FUV stores about 20KwH of energy
27:32 [THE FUV BATTERY] ...it's 19.2 (KwH)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dje2WD_YfpQ&t=27m32s
AND on average 1 KwH of energy creates about 1lb of CO2 AND lets also assume that burning 1 gal of gas in an internal combustion engine creates about 20 lbs of CO2 AND lastly from news articles lets estimate that the range of the FUV is about 100 miles
(NOTE all these figures have been rounded off to make the mental calculations simple)
on average, one kilowatt-hour creates 1.13 pounds of carbon dioxide
https://www.blueskymodel.org/kilowatt-hour
On average, one gallon of gasoline produces a little over 18 pounds of carbon dioxide (CO2)
http://www.blueskymodel.org/gallon-gas
...IOW the FUV uses 20KwH of energy to go 100 miles AND since 20 KwH creates about 20 lbs of CO2 AND that 1 gal of gas (looking at the chemical combustion process) creates 20 lbs of CO2,... so the real world efficiency of the FUV is actually about 100 MPGe ??? (this to me seems more real world ball park figure for MPGe because of the high parasitic current draw caused by among other things the "high voltage" battery pack always charging the 12 volt electronic brains system battery)
https://www.gmforum.com/howto/1998SM/par...edures.pdf
"over all" wish the energy use (in an FUV) to travel a given distance was better than 100 MPGe, but from my own short term experience having the FUV (here in San Diego), its been pretty nice to have a windscreen along with heated seats to run errands and goto covid events like,...
https://fox5sandiego.com/news/local-news...lboa-park/
actually given the small size and maneuverability of the FUV we were able to avoid the gridlock at this drive-up event (where there were lots of SUVs)
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