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says they will have optional hard doors, can't imagine it would have any issues with stability in the rain as my motorcycle does just fine, its the driver experience that sucks in the rain.

The will come with a windshield wiper.

I would be happy with less of a top speed as well like say 70 KMH (42MPH or so). I say that because with all the traffic that is out there and with the speed zones it is rare that I ever drive faster than that. If reducing the size of the motor would further reduce the curb weight, then I think that that would be a logical direction to take the vehicle to further increase our efficiency.

Glad you dig it!

what happens in snow and winter when it cold.

They have heat & solid panel package. They have a video of it in snow and seems to handle as well as another car. In really bad snow around here I see Prius stuck all day long. I personally would keep my 4x4 SUV and replace my commuter car with this, the 4x4 would be used for winter and family trips and this could be used for the other 20,000 miles I drive a year on gas.

Steve wear a coat and gloves... Presumably on cold winter days you put your coat on to leave your house, take it off when you’re in your car, put it on again when you get out, then take it off again in a building... with this you just keep your coat on and sit down. So it’s actually simpler! There might be a breeze on your face but the side panels might resolve that.

I am a fairly early on my deposit, and I am told I won't get delivery until late 2018.

Need some clean streets to drive this vehicle on, buddy.

It's a motorcycle.

Heated seats and grips.... Don't know about cooling. Drink more water, wear a shade hat.

Heater will come standard, doors optional.

They would likely have to invest millions and crash a ton of these to prove it safe enough to get that classification, but one can hope. I personally am fine wearing my helmet as it is lets be honest not as safe as a car, but is definitely safer than a standard motorcycle.

Many states have helmet exemptions for motorcycles with enclosed shells.

Most states, I'm pretty sure, classify the enclosure as a helmet.

Our founder is 6'5" with room to spare!

@@arcimoto ok that’s great when will you guys come to Connecticut because I want to try it for sure

Working on it!

Check out our target specs here: www.arcimoto.com/vehicle/#specifications

Good call.

Arcimoto perfect!

Doors will be an option when sales begin.

m.xkcd.com/1924/ A solar powered vehicle either needs to be very slow or it needs to have a lot of sky facing surface area compared to the drag and rolling resistance that it faces. The SRK -compared to solar cars raced in Australia- has little sky facing surface area, and very high drag. Also, most of the US does not reliably get as many hours of cloud free daytime as Australia. A freight train would be a good candidate for pv, but it would probably have to be completely grade separated from other train traffic

Here in Oregon, we drive in the rain and snow all the time. Even without doors you stay remarkable dry and comfortable thanks to panoramic roof, windshield, heated seats and grips. Are advice for inclement weather is always the same: slow down, drive safe, bundle up, enjoy the ride.

Arcimoto how can this vehicle be used with fleets and last mile delivery. Just one pizza at a time ? Did you build a prototype for delivery vehicles ? Thanks

@@PhilthyMr they did, 1 seated vehicles with way more space

I picked up my FUV on the coldest day of the year so far in December 2020 in Eugene. Heated grips, heated seats - no problem with regular warm biking clothes.

could be wrong but as far as pedals go I think it's like a motorcycle as far as accelerating goes - it's all in the handle

Your choice for solar/pedal powered combinations is the ELF and the PEBL. You are smart to understand how important pedaling for exercise is. And vehicles light enough to pedal are the most environmentally friendly.

No, the throttle is on the handlebars, the brake is on the floor. It uses regenerative braking to stop it on light stops.

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The base model goes about 70 miles on a charge, an optional model goes 130 miles. Charge time depends on the charger, standard takes longer a Level 2 a lot less.

They should be placing solar panels on the roof instead of a clear plastic window. That 200 watts would provide about 1/4 of the power used to completely charge the battery in a day. Since many of us will not completely discharge the battery the solar will actually provide 100% of the power some owners need on most days they drive this, for a cost of only $500 additional vehicle price.

We are planning on having a solar roof option. Good call!

A 200 watt panel in a place with 5 sun hours per day is 1kWh. The 70 and 120 mile versions come with 12 kWh and 20 kWh packs. This gives it a ballpark figure of about 6 miles per kWh that you could pull from sunlight in a day in a mostly sunny place. It's enough to handle a short commute or make trips to the store. Americans only drive 37 miles a day on average so you would charge 6 kWh/day on average. Your math has it at 1/4th and mine is 1/6th so our assumptions and math are definitely on the same page at least.

They are talking about an optional solar roof, but that will not recharge the battery in a reasonable time.

Edgardo Salguero remember the Elio car?

Pay the $100 deposit and get in line.

It registers as a motorcycle, but can be driven with a normal driver's license in most states.

was hoping it would stay motorcycle class, I pay $90 a year to insure my motorcycle for full coverage and $1,500 for my car.

Jared Williams it insures as a motorcycle.

Can kids have them

Can your company send me one on my birthday i want a light brown one with red strips on it do have to have tags i just want one for free on my birthday please ARCIMOTO PLEASE im begging yall i want mine with doors and wind shield wipers

ARCIMOTO PLEASE reply to this please i want one

And i want a radio bluetooth touchscreen radio cup holders and heating and air condotiomer

Please i will talk to yall on Facebook add me so i can send adress

I'm gonna guess your from Canada? Most my motorcycle friends from up north tell me how insane your insurance costs are. Here I pay $90 per year full coverage for my motorcycle insurance and $1,500 per year on the car.

In Oregon I have a 3 wheel 400cc motorcycle and my insurance is a little over $300 a year full coverage.

I have an unusually long 156 km round trip commute and I rarely use more than 35% of my Tesla Model 3's battery. The average person has a commute 1/3rd of what I do. This isn't for single vehicle families, this is a second vehicle strictly for commuting and short trips.

Check your science sources. blog.ucsusa.org/rachael-nealer/gasoline-vs-electric-global-warming-emissions-953 While it is true that fossil-fueled electric plants also pollute, the overall impact of an electric vehicle is much less than that of a gas-powered car, mostly because of the direct conversion of carbon vs watt usage for the same relative distances. And we can also push for a sustainable grid powered by solar, wind, tide and geothermal energy.

Correct. Tom Nally is not responding to the information in the video and appears to be writing a pre-packaged talking point, since he totally ignores the MPGe rating that is given in the video. Given 230 MPGe figure, even an original power source that has TWICE as CO2 emission per kWh of energy has the same CO2 emissions as a 115mpg automobile. So in order for "the most efficient way to do it" being a gasoline powered vehicle has to have 115MPG. Further, given the growing hydro, wind & solar contribution, many grids in the US have the same or lower CO2 emissions per kWh as gasoline, so to be better than the CO2 emissions of an Arcimoto in THOSE grids, you need a 230 MPG gasoline powered vehicle. Good luck finding that.

I think the people above me already covered it but why is it fair to only count emissions from gasoline at the point of combustion in the engine and measure it against the entire supply chain for electricity? If you are going for an apples to apples comparison wouldn't you also need to include the costs and energy involved to refine petroleum, obtain it, and secure supply (which involves expensive international politics and conflicts)? Seriously if you are going to measure the whole supply chain for grid power against EV's you must also measure supply chain for petroleum against combustion cars or you are comparing apples or oranges.

Your point is valid. The average efficiency of power generation at the electric plant is about 43%. The transmission and distribution efficiency is about 90%. The conversion of AC power to DC for the battery is about 90%. When these are multiplied together, you get about 35% efficiency by the time power gets to the battery. (There are additional losses when the battery discharges.) But my understanding is that the EPA allows plug-in vehicle makers to calculate equivalent MPG as if the vehicle was its own power plant, operating at 100% efficiency. That is, the EPA allows plug-in vehicle makers to ignore all of the power losses that take place. Warren Meyer has discussed the issue several times, including this piece in Forbes Magazine: bit.ly/2ogcZCC

@Tom Nally The same argument mostly applies. When I burn a gallon of fuel do we measure the fuel used by the truck that delivered it to the gas station before I pumped it? Again measuring the entire supply chain of electric against only the ICE combustion is comparing apples and oranges and to add insult to injury it still comes away cleaner because electric motors are so much more efficient than ICE's.

Some can't afford a Tesla, so what is your point?

That would be going backward, lots of hybrids around but none for $12K.

Many states are changing laws so electric vehicles pay a mileage fee. That's fair, EVs use the roads, bridges etc. and pay no gasoline tax.

You can charge in parking spaces without needing a garage. Parking spaces with level 2 (220v) SAE J1772 chargers are getting pretty common but you could even run an extension cord out to your driveway. Home Tesla chargers generally plug into a 220v NEMA 14-50 outlet which seems viable enough here and you see a lot of them on plugshare so between available SAE chargers and plugging your own charger into (110v) wall outlets or NEMA 14-50 220v there are options. I don't currently have a 220v outlet in my garage but I'll probably get one installed because sooner or later I know I'm going to need one. After everything is installed swapping out the plug standard isn't a big deal but I'm kind of hoping Arcimoto goes with NEMA 14-50 since that seems to be the most popular with EV's. Most EV's and hybrids in the US other than Tesla use the same SAE standard plug that Arcimoto will use. Tesla supports it too but with an adapter.

Thank you. I am aware of the current infrastructure and it is still weak and will not inspire the majority of city dwellers to go full electric. We will disagree on the standard for "common" for now.

If you are going to build a combustion engine into something like this it's almost not worth the cost and complexity of making it hybrid. Elio motors is a scam but the idea that an enclosed trike would get really good gas mileage is mostly accurate. You would already be getting 60+ MPG even before adding the complexity of the hybrid system and some of that technology is still under a mountain of patents owned by Toyota, Alex Severinsky, and others. A few of the early hybrid patents should be expiring now but with gas mileage already being so high for enclosed trikes to begin with it doesn't (currently) make sense to take on the legal and technical complexity of going down that road. The litigation companies like Toyota and Ford fought to allow them to sell hybrids would crush a small startup and EV's are both mechanically simple and mostly royalty free. Enclosed trikes are smart because motorcycles are light and have a small frontal area but have a drag coefficient close to 1 but cars are aerodynamic (Model S is 0.24) but heavy with a large frontal area. This is why Elio claims an 84 MPG and Arcimoto claims 230 MPGe and no other cars or motorcycles are able to even approach those figures. Batteries are expensive and this is pretty much the only platform efficient enough to allow use of a small inexpensive battery.

It's a shame that Elios and Aptera didn't have better business plans in place. I don't know about the patent situation. I was wondering if it would be possible to incorporate a small portable generator like a Honda EU2000 and use it to power the electric motors directly or to charge the batteries overnight.

You could probably run a generator on a small trailer you pull behind too but Elio's problems are probably deeper and maybe more cynical than just lack of a good business plan. Paul Elio was most likely a con artist from the beginning. I could go into a lot of detail why but probably not here lol

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