Man Gali!! I miss your updates on Arcimoto!

Love it. LET'S GO FUV!

Why would you use this company as a case-study in innovation when they have yet to prove that their approach works?

@@TheyForcedMyHandLE Maybe you should take my class.

Can you please guide me to purchase some of Arcimoto stocks? It's sounds like I am stupid because it's my first time trying to buy stock that could help me and my family future. Thank you in advance Phil

@@TanSpaceX Sometimes you just believe in something, right? Gas prices starting to creep up, again....

I was watching a movie made in Thailand and it made me wonder how big of a market Arcimoto could have down there. Great point.

Nope. You have no idea.

You need to look at the Easy Seat, also called the Hobson Seat. I have a broken tail bone and could only use that design with two little padded hip joint supports that swivel a bit as you pedal. Nothing between your legs but a breeze.

Short sellers are crapping their pants already.

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GM has no clue about sustainability….if they did they wouldn’t be a 9k lb monster vehicle…so irresponsible! Boo GM idiots!

GM hasnt built a vehicle I'd own again since about 1985. I cant believe anyone would choose their truck over literally any other brand. They cant even get the front left running light to work for 20 years now! If you havent noticed you will now. Easy to spot a chevy truck coming at you because garunteed that lights out.

@@shmodzilla I have actually noticed the running lights on GM trucks being out a lot, but honestly never noticed it whether it was the left or right. My neighbor had it happen on his GM SUV. I thought he told me the quote to fix it was several hundred dollars....is that possible?!! Anyway, because of the cost, he and another neighbor tackled it themselves in his driveway. Pretty sure they had to remove the wheel well liner to fix it! I know they were at it for hours but they got it fixed.

Because one has “small hands”?

Mine will need a cover shell, so it might be 1/50th of a Hummer.

You will love it. I'm at about 1,500 miles driven and I use it for pretty much everything.

Agreed. The small footprint means you can send in a fleet of them instead of one large truck (or airplane). Autonomously, they could deploy themselves (someday). Terrain will always be an issue in firefighting ("Young Men and Fire" by Norman Maclean), but these days there are forest roads that go pretty much everywhere. Modern firefighting is about containment and fuel-reduction, something the US could learn from the Austrailian Aboriginals. And, yet, with all of this beauty another oil war started yesterday?! Yep, that's what Russia is all about, these days. Well, the US too, truth be told. After all, we are currently the world's *largest* oil producer (11.3M barrels per day). And, didn't we just get through killing 100,000+ Iraqis over what was essentially securing Kuwait's right to slant-drill into their supply? OK I'll stop there. But I love you, Arcimoto!!!

I know right. The idea itself has been around for decades. Why are we just starting to implement it? Because there was no money in it for the capitalists.

Strong conviction is the way to go.

It is!

Doors are dead weight and they don't use steel beams for protection like car doors do. I added cargo webbing to enclose the passenger seat area. Very large capacity, so big you can skip the $750 trunk option which is small in comparison. Also it is common practice to just strap in a cooler for groceries.

I drive my current Arcimoto right down to 32-degrees, and all you need is bottom doors to keep the wind off your legs (I wear riding chaps, currently). The Arcimoto has heated seats and a defroster that make it pretty comfortable without the wind, and the fairing keeps the rest of the wind (and rain) out. Now, take those doors off and it is built-in A/C at 30 mph+. I live in Eastern WA where it gets -5 in the Winter and +115 in the summer, so yah, Texas.... One last point: every electron spent on heating and cooling reduces range.

Don't need AC on something that is classed as a motorcycle. The biggest problem is no defrost IMO if the weather gets cold enough to fog up the window or build ice what do you do about it?

@@melchizedek077 turn on the defrost. it's there. it works.

@@melchizedek077 The Arcimoto is classed as an autocycle by the government. The MC classification only applies to the infancy of insurance company categories - glad for that as my insurance is $800 cheaper than it was with an old car in Florida. The FUV has a three speed *electric defroster* for its windshield.

Speculation? They appear to be focused on limiting materials and weight. Spheres and cylinders are inherently stronger & more stable than squares & rectangles.

@@elizabethbottroff1218 You're probably right about weight but I was also thinking in terms of a shape that fitted more more snugly into the carrying bed which is either square or slightly rectangular. Also if applying the liquid weight reduction requirement, you could lower the center of gravity, increasing vehicle stability, by using a rectangular or square container that is lower in height than current cylinder shape, yet retain same volumetric fluid/s.

Dude, you bought at the wrong time!!! Arcimoto was a $5.00 stock when the surge in prices came last year. And, guess what? They're back to $5.00. So, assuming you sold between $11.00 and $31.00 when it surged, it's time to get back in. If you bought at $20.00, then it's time to dollar-cost average that investment! BTW, Arcimoto is no longer a $5.00 valued stock; however, because of the current bear market and the idiotic surge in their stock's price last year, most investment advisers still call it a "hold." They're wrong, but that's because none of their stock analysts are systems engineers, just guys with a finance degree who know how to read a balance sheet, but don't know what it means (i.e., how a balance sheet looks like the company is failing when all they are doing is making a large capital expenditure on ... like ... tooling a large factory). The same thing happened with Tesla when they started producing the Model S. Musk nearly went *bankrupt* during that year as Wall Street kicked them when they were down.

@@darinladd5312 yeah, I've moved some cash to my account. When it clears I plan to buy another 10 shares. I managed to catch Lucid just before the top, but they have a pretty impressive car so I'm hoping they click with customers. Honestly, the reason my portfolio is mostly in the black is because I bought some Berkshire B to cushion the speculative buys. If everything else dies, Berkshire Hathaway will eventually make up the losses.

Hold on tight. Short sellers are crapping their right now. They will have to cover and your days will be brighter. They're keeping the price down.

Mark is six foot four and I think the carrying capacity is 600 puonds. So yeah, should be no problem

Good point. Big guys love to have fun too.

working on it!

Owners have already made a surf board rack for side mounting. The company already sells a golf bag rack.

So I'm sure it charges from the wall as well as the pedal generator, that was a possibly confusing bit of whimsy to show off just the generator. Having the pedals run a generator lets you dial in whatever effort level/"gear ratio" you'd like, in software.

My take on the generator may be wrong but what I picture is generating electricity and sending it to the battery then to the hub motors. No chains/belts needed, no need to wall charge unless you want to. Don’t turn the motors on if you just want to charge. I like it! FUV is my 2nd largest holding and is getting larger on Monday! Go gettem’ Mark!

Not any more than any other vehicle. We carry a pump and a patch kit that will hande about half of all flat tires.

Recyclable plastics could be one way to go. Check out what Aduro Clean Technology is planning on doing with plastics. Pretty cool.

A US car-bike company sold a vehicle with a hemp fiber and resin body. They started selling until the bodies were found to disintegrate in southern climates. They never recovered from the recall for that disaster.

Winters in the north used to mean holing up for 4 months with a mountain of firewood and dried foods. When we started bashing through all weather by abusing fossil fuels in climate controlled personal vehicles we went down a dead end road. You are already at the end of that road, admit it or not. We don't want no stinkin' doors. They do nothing for safety with this design, just dead weight. The FUV batteries can not operate below freezing anyways. There are heated seats and hand grips and a wrap around windshield.

How can they have specs for the public when the first prototype has not been built and tested?

PEBL shut down and was outsourced to Germany. They still have no production model 2 years later. PEBL was a 20 mph 1hp vehicle while the FUV tops out over 80 mph with 77hp. Troll harder, loser.

The internal combustion engine is simpler. Look what that got us. I rode ebikes for 7 years which allowed me to save up for my Arcimoto. Worth the wait.

You lied by a factor of several thousand and the pen was developed by private industry. Lies just discredit you and poison the whole internet further. Pencils were a terrible idea, they shed toxic dust and sharpening is messy. *Uses in the U.S. and Russian space programs* "The development of the thixotropic ink cost Paul Fisher around $1 million (equivalent to $8.6 million in 2021). NASA - and the Soviets - eventually began purchasing such pens." Space Pen - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Space_Pen

Nor do you deserve them. Expect something for nothing is the motto of investors who do not care that any profits come directly from the paychecks and benefit packages of the workers who actually add value to the company by doing the work.

@@popeyegordon Yes, investing is not really giving money to help a company grow and profit. We should follow the model of the USSR or CCP. Please forgive me for being a selfish capitalist.

@@mwhite1474 You have not been on the receiving end like me. I was in the company meeting where they said they were outsourcing 350 jobs to China becasue they needed to be able to pay dividends to their investors. They also froze wages. I refused to accept any free shares from that company. Responsible people only consider investing in Green funds or socially responsible funds. Every dollar is a vote, whether you care about that or not. Having said that, I have no idea how well Arcinoto would qualify for a green funds portfolio. I invested by actually buying the vehicle, that is paying off beyond expectations.

You do not need a motorcycle license to drive the FUV, deliverator, or rapid response vehicles in HI, LA, or FL. (You do need it for the roadster, however.) GA, KY, and WV allow the 3 wheeled Polaris vehicle to be driven with a regular license. Not sure how they classify the FUV, though.

Not really. There are videos showing how dry the driver stays in rain. A billion motorcycles all over the world are used in all conditions except deep snow. They don't have a roof or wrap around windshield with heated defroster or wiper/washer. Or any doors at all for that matter.

@@popeyegordon Motorcyclists wear waterproof leathers, gloves and a crash helmet. Also, unless you've got somewhere covered to park it, rain plus strong wind equals a perpetually damp interior in some climates. If you're going to get a wet arse every time you try to use it without waterproofs, why not just buy a motorcycle?

@@edwardmullins2176 We have had time to figure this out. Autocycles don't need helmets. There is no interior as you relate to cars - no carpet, nothing water can damage. Just painted steel and a weather resistant dash. We carry a waterproof seat cover to add when we get out of the seat. When we are ready to go again the seat is dry. We have a great custom fit weather cover available from California Car Cover. We use light rain gear, leather was adopted by bikers because it would not rub through easily and give you road rash but we are buckled in tightly. We can drive barefoot or in flip flops.

@@popeyegordon I only mentioned helmets and leathers in regards to the weather projection used by motorcyclists after your comparison between the two vehicles, and the massive popularity of the former despite the lack of a sealed cabin. This is a false equivalence as motorcyclists are wearing their weather protection, while an arcimoto driver presumably won't be unless they want to drive around in a rain hat and coat so the spray coming into the cabin on a rainy day doesn't soak their clothes. While this may work in places like California, until this has a sealed cabin I don't see it having much appeal in windy countries like the UK, that get an average of 130 days of rain a year (170 in 2020) I like the idea of and technology behind the Arcimoto, but I'm very skeptical about this seeing mass adoption, especially for commercial fleets. A three seater variant could potentially be used as an auto rickshaw in places like India, but I doubt many could afford it. Also, the notion that this will make any meaningful contribution to tackling climate change seems naive at best, and cynical corporate spin at worst. Rather than buy a second or third 'car' as a kind of novelty leisure vehicle, it would be far better for the environment if people walked, cycled or used existing public transport.

@@edwardmullins2176 That's total bullshit about you denying lighter vehicles won't help climate change. I owned a motorcycle while living in the HOH rain forest for 5 years, 200 inches a year but when conditions were reasonable the bike saved me from using the car or van I had. Stop with all the ridiculous nit picking about rain gear - there is a trunk in which any number of garments can be ready to use. The whole damn country is going electric. Admit it or not, like it or not. Car makers have all announced their plans very publicly. Arcimoto is on the leading edge of the bell curve representing the change. Smart concerned people want to stop stealing resources from future generations as soon as is humanly possible. Deniers like you are dying off or being 'replaced'.

Google is your friend when you use it first, and your nemesis when you go off half cocked without fact checking yourself before commenting. Battery suppliers are multiplying faster than vehicle makers and recycling of batteries has begun.

@@popeyegordon no need for google fact checking dude, just walk outside and compare ice vs electric afordability on the streets, then use common sense and calculate the realistic next 10 years.

@@Paccekabuddha Your innumeracy disqalifies you from doing what you suggest. Your personal concept of common sense excludes the largest part of the value of EVs - no gas to buy, less environmental damage that costs everyone on the planet in ultiple ways. A clear thinking educated adult would not accept a gas powered vehicle given to them for free because those are more expensive in the log run.

@@popeyegordon and where are those free EVs? Inside your common sense i guess? At least not here in the developing countries for the next 15 years at least i can bet

@@Paccekabuddha Nobody mentioned free EVs until you did just now. They ARE much cheaper to own and insure but nobody gives them away free except for some free e-bike programs. Oregon gives out a full $5000 cash rebate if you buy one, that is a huge discount. The cleaner air we enjoy by using EVs is a bonus that benefits every human on Earth. EVs are being adopted all over the world. Electric busses first in some countries. Electric trains in others. Electric outboard motors in fishing villages are helping some poor fishermen. There are electric planes too. Ebikes and light EV rickshaws with solar panel roofs will be the first to come to some developing countries.

Maybe a good suggestion: Make the vehicle collapsible in size a little bit so that it will fit sideways in a single apartment parking spot with a car. I think it's possible. Make some of the width liftable in the air like maybe the entire chassis.

They said the same thing about Android when they wanted to get into smartphones.

No. It's better that way. It uses flat tread surface car tires 4.5 and 5.5 inches wide with much more rubber on the road than rounded motorcycle tires. Motorcycles can spin out on wet pavement or just a little oil on the road.

No. Larger cars are the problem. They use too much fuel and resources. This is one solution to that problem. Their R & D design with a steering wheel weighed 280 pounds more and was 18 inches longer.

No. Climate controlled vehicles are what got us in this mess in the first place. Cars are boring while open sides keep us in touch with nature.

False. It was always supposed to cost $17,900 in 2022. The first series, Signature series, cost $45K. The next Evergreen series cost $25K. Then the big factory was acquired and started cranking out the FUV for $17,900. I was so excited I bought one and after ten months still very happy with it. So much more economical than any car. In the year 2018 a projection was made that a $12K mass produced version would be in the future. With lniflation that will be about $14K in 2023.

Says a non-fireman about a vehicle that was designed to fill a specific demand as communicated by actual firemen.

@@popeyegordon Your statement is... False, I have three decades as a fire/aid responder. The Arcimoto was not designed by firefighters, the company is attempting to adapt their tandem FUV to increase sales.

@@olsonspeed I was incorrect about you being a non-fire fighter, assuming you are honest, but I was correct in that a design like this is not simply pulled out of someone's ass. The needs were surveyed and this niche was identified. It has been demonstrated in a video to be an effictive first responder that can prevent a major fire by getting there first. It is far more affordable than a helicopter. Firefighters had no idea it was even possible to have a vehicle with this kind of performance so obviously nobody tried to design it. Arcimoto had 14 years of prototypes to come up with the platform.

@@popeyegordon The Arcimoto was designed as a FUV, fun utility vehicle, they are attempting to adapt it to be an emergency response vehicle. A downsized vehicle is not a new concept to emergency responders, a three-wheeled fire truck was attempted and abandoned in the early 1900s. Bicycles, motorcycles, ATV, and minivans are currently being used effectively in special use case response situations, my department currently uses bicycles and a John Deer Gator, previously we had a pickup based mini-pumper. A tandem, three wheeler is inferior platform to use as a base as a firefighting or aid vehicle, it has the same width as an ATV but does not have the stability or 4-WD offered in a side-by-side configuration. Do more research, don't buy into slick video presentations or marketing hyperbole.

@@olsonspeed As an owner you can't tell me about this product. I have one. The fire version is a single seater. It is for the smallest of first responder appications and can go 80 mph on open road where an ATV can not. It is extremely stable for an on-road vehicle. Watch as the sales happen and the videos of it accumulate. One year from today you can come back with some authority, but not now.

No. That is totally incorrect. China's vehicles are cheap crap and death traps. We have electric busses.

I just completed my first year of owning the FUV for all my transportation needs. What a thrill. What disappoints me is those who refuse to even think about switching to an EV. I am also pleased to see Arcimoto's quarterly reports of continued steady growth during a a pandemic/war economy that is killing many businesses globally.

Then why did you bother to comment? It doesn't have to be ideal for everyone to be a great move towards sustainability. A snowmobile is not a failed design just because it is worthless in Florida.

Not anything like "in the basement". You lied.

It is now.