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  Lots of driving today, many fun interactions.
Posted by: CharonPDX - 06-05-2021, 03:12 AM - Forum: General FUV Discussion - Replies (7)

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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  Selling my FUV hauling trailer
Posted by: CreativeGuy - 05-30-2021, 11:56 PM - Forum: Purchase and Delivery - Replies (9)

When I first got Goldie I, I didn’t think I would be driving much in the winter and the only storage space at the time was my small shop.  So I bought this enclosed trailer to use mostly for storing the FUV when I needed my shop space.  I have since built the “GoldieGarage” and we are selling our vehicle that could tow the loaded trailer.
So I’m selling this customized trailer.  It’s smallest sized enclosed cargo trailer that can fit an FUV.  6’ X 10’ with a V front.  It is a tight squeeze but it works.  


My customization excludes 1/4” diamond tread, wheel chocks for the front tires and tie down chocks for the rear.  I also installed full length E-Tracks on both sidewalls which adds to the utility of the trailer.  I added internal guides to “center” the wheels when backing out. Also included is a spare.  The loaded tongue weight is around 400 lbs so it takes a good sized vehicle to tow this.  
Trailer has less than 1,000 miles on it.


$3,000.00 Firm.

Throw in another 23 grand and I’ll include a Deliverator with the only full doors (soft) in the entire Arcimoto fleet. Along with a bunch of other custom goodies. (Then I can buy a flatbed/box cargo version)

Here is a link to a video of loading the Arcimoto into the trailer.

https://youtu.be/xthI9N7jcUc
 


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  Third time is a charm
Posted by: Tom Liberatore - 04-26-2021, 01:22 AM - Forum: Introduce Yourself - Replies (2)

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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Shocked Drove the Electra Meccanica Solo yesterday…
Posted by: CharonPDX - 03-21-2021, 07:12 PM - Forum: General FUV Discussion - Replies (3)

It was…… Not good.

While the vehicle *looks* great - interior and exterior, and it theoretically drives more like a car than the FUV, the actual driving experience is "bad bordering on dangerous."

It has very poor acceleration, it has *DANGEROUSLY* poor braking, cornering is "meh," and the ride is *ROUGH*.

I was expecting a much smoother car-like ride than the Arcimoto, but it's so much worse than the FUV. It's like a race-tuned Miata, but with none of the tight steering and pedal response of a race-tuned vehicle. You felt every tiny bump in the parking lot the drive was in; I can't imagine going over a speed bump or a pothole. 

It's *REALLY* low to the ground - and visibility is bad. I would NOT want to drive it in traffic.

Acceleration and braking are so bad that my "Progressive Snapshot" app (which I forgot to pause) didn't register any rapid acceleration or hard braking events, even though I floored it and slammed on brakes full-force multiple times.

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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 - No Replies

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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  A third EV has joined my FUV!
Posted by: CharonPDX - 02-25-2021, 03:20 AM - Forum: Photos and Videos - Replies (6)

And managed to fit three EVs in to one garage!

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The Tesla Model S on the left (a 2014) is new. The Tesla and BMW have their charge ports on opposite sides, so this arrangements works well for the two of them - unfortunately to fit this way, the FUV has to be crammed way up like that, and the charge cord next to the Tesla won't reach with the Tesla there. (It will fit going directly to the FUV, though.)

Also, funny detail: all three have at least major components made in US West Coast states - the BMW i3's carbon fiber "life module" is made in Moses Lake, Washington; the FUV is of course made in Eugene, Oregon; and the Tesla is made in Fremont, California.

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  New guy here!
Posted by: Buckerew - 02-01-2021, 05:05 PM - Forum: Introduce Yourself - Replies (1)

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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  Transport Evolved video about Arcimoto's success-against-odds.
Posted by: CharonPDX - 01-12-2021, 07:52 AM - Forum: In the News - No Replies

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  Arcimoto Enters Purchase Agreement to Expand Its Manufacturing Footprint
Posted by: ben - 01-07-2021, 09:29 PM - Forum: Production and the AMP - No Replies

an eMail notice (from investor relations) said that arcimoto is buying industrial space in order to scale production

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/arcimoto-...00471.html

looking at the listing flyer noticed the solar panels, I'm guessing in the future the solar array will cover more of the roof area

https://www.loopnet.com/Listing/311-Cham...9060/print

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  FUV gets 173.7 MPGe ???
Posted by: ben - 12-14-2020, 08:01 PM - Forum: Technical Discussion - Replies (22)

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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