Meet Chris Dawson, Arcimoto CEO 

Same. I like the philosophy, I like the increased sales/ scale/ path-to-profitability thinking. I like highlighting the challenges & difficulties along the roa of his carreer path - no sugarcoating, it's what makes for a great CEO. Well done! 💪

Agreed. One thing (besides start the whole project) Mark did well was consistent communication.

@@mrhyde503 what happen to Mark

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As an owner and long term member of the owner group I can say we are all excited about our vehicles and telling anyone who will listen, the onslaught of curious gawkers in parking lots is never ending as you know. We already do what you are suggesting but maybe you are the only owner who refuses to talk to people with questions because the company did not ask you to? On every short trip I get thumbs up and friendly honks from drivers on the road who wish they were me. On one day the word "badass" was exclaimed three times as I passed three different walkers. The demand is there but the unpredicted pandemic/war economy can not be ignored as a major factor in slow sales and growth of companies.

You still haven’t gotten your doors?!!

@@jeffzekas No, I do not have doors for my FUV. After a good deal of asking, angling, and pushing to get doors I was discouraged from inquiring further.

Haha same here in New Zealand, and it's not even that cold (in the North Island at least, Harald!

Full enclosure for a motorcycle is never done. That tranforms it into a solar oven and the weight is too much for a light EV design. The inevitable climate controls that come with that will zap away limited battery power, as does the weight of those systems. The millions of Americans with previous motorcycle experience all see the FUV as a huge step up in safety and comfort but car addicts, the ones with a habit that is proving deadly for our biome, expect to project their unreasonable demands for comfort onto a new mode of transportation which has to be Spartan to be more sustainable. You sit behind a wrap around windshield with adjoining roof with rain gutters. You sit on heated seats, you have heated hand grips and defroster.

How about now?

Arcimoto always posted monthly and quarterly videos here until recently. Nobody knows when Texas will be willing to adopt reasonable laws about sales in that state. They demand a dealership must be located in Tx. to sell a vehicle. As far as you know you could be the first to receive your FUV in Tx. Someone has been a first buyer in every new state, they were ones with early pre-orders.

@@popeyegordon Didnt know about the dealership b4 the DOT change. Which came first, the chicken or the egg? I would love to be the first in Texas. I know a golf cart co that is looking for another line of electrics... I will mention it to them. The problem right now is the past history of Arcimoto and what mentality that might impose on someone adding inventory and clients for a product that might go away. With all the history it may be a hard sell. Its tough. Ive followed Arci for several years just waiting on sales in Texas.... I want to believe in them.... Hopefully Chris can do his magic and make this happen for all of us! His background and willingness to give it all to turn it around does sound promising... Gotta admit.

They were all driven leaders.

Full enclosure for a motorcycle is never done. That tranforms it into a solar oven in Florida and the weight is too much for a light EV design. The inevitable climate controls that come with that will zap away limited battery power, as does the weight of those systems. The millions of Americans with previous motorcycle experience all see the FUV as a huge step up in safety and comfort but car addicts, the ones with a habit that is proving deadly for our biome, expect to project their unreasonable demands for comfrt onto a new mode of transportation which has to be Spartan to be more sustainable. Salt water and new EVs do not mix. The first time this is driven through surf the salt water is going to kill it. Very few Florida owners buy theirs with doors. This design's safety system is safe without them and the plastic doors are just dead weight that make it harder to stay cool.

@@popeyegordon Well, then, partial enclosure, please. I'm not asking for AC or even heat, just enough cover to not feel stupid while stopped at a traffic light in the pouring rain. There are currently electric vehicles and small displacement gas vehicles being rented at Pensacola Beach for driving up and down the roads and into Fort Pickens but NOT on the beach. FUV's for rent here might be a great way to introduce your product to the general public of this area.

@@brucegraner5901 - If you look at the SEC filing pre IPO, they were to make optional full enclosure, HVAC and even an optional extended battery pack. None of that happened. Plus, the previous CEO admitted they were going to have to do a design change to it to have full enclosure. Also, not all of us live in FL, thus we get cold.

@@billsmith5960 I probably misspoke when I said "full enclosure." I once owned a soft-top Jeep CJ5 with a makeshift top of canvas doors and a bikini top, basically opened to the back and it could keep you kind of dry. However, IF the windows on the canvas doors weren't up there was no way you'd stay dry in the frog-strangler rains we have in Florida. Even canvas doors would provide utility to the FUV. Without them, you just have a FV. Such a vehicle might be a big hit in The Villages in central Florida but some simple, light-weight doors would greatly increase the utility and therefore the appeal of the FUV in my opinion. On my jeep the canvas doors were easily removed when the weather was good and I wanted more fun. I just want the FUV to be a big success for Arcimoto.

@@brucegraner5901 - I understand. I rented a FUV twice in FL and one time it was raining and I got soaked because a truck passed me and went through a puddle, that water came right for me. At least the FUV rental place warned me of getting wet if it rains. So, I would believe them as they rent them out and probably experienced it themselves. I had a Jeep too and removable doors were great. In the rain, needed the doors. Same for when winter came.

The Deliverator and the modular box sitting on a pickup bed are two different designs. The full roll cage remains inside the Deliverator skin. It is the smallest cargo version while the box is part of a modular system whereby a truck delivers 4 or more boxes to a staging area, then the flatbed loads one box at a time. This system has been around for a number of years for small EVs. The expandable flatbed is by itself a model of interest to many shoppers. The first Deliverator owner has now hit over 25,000 miles on his, he contracts to haul trays of letters for the postal service and gathers firewood for himself. Personally, as a single guy, I removed my rear seat and installed cargo net to make the rear a cargo area and I still have the locking trunk. I'd post a photo if it was possible here.

Chris came from Atlis trucks. So we are already seeing his pickup truck experience in action with the Deliverator Box. Good to see they are going in that direction as I agree with Chris.

The fact that you are in Florida is precisely the reason to NOT want climate control. Mine is in central Florida. Full enclosure for a motorcycle is never done. That tranforms it into a solar oven and the weight is too much for a light EV design. The inevitable climate controls that come with that will zap away even more limited battery power, as does the weight of those systems. The millions of Americans with previous motorcycle experience all see the FUV as a huge step up in safety and comfort but car addicts, the ones with a habit that is proving deadly for our biome, expect to project their unreasonable demands for comfort onto a new mode of transportation which has to be Spartan to be more sustainable. Driver and passenger are NOT exposed to the elements, they sit behind and under a wrap around windshield and roof. If you get the door option you lose the cooling breezes on the lower half of your body. Humidity is not a factor when the air is moving. I stay completely dry when driving in a hard rain with the wipers on high, the wind pressure averts every drop away from the driver. The passenger may get some spray easily dealt with by light rain gear. I tinted my roof and use ventilated seat covers.

They have to redesign it for full doors. Full doors, HVAC and an extended range battery was the plan in the SEC filing pre IPO. Somehow, those were left off and full doors is the #1 thing people want yet the company never designed it to have them. Yes, there are the 5% that do not but you just alienated the other 95%.

@@billsmith5960 Abslutely not! I have corrected you many times on this bizarre idea that would ruin the whole concept of right sizing. You see all the car addicts balking at a lack of doors and assume that is the right idea but they are all wrong. Theyn all, each and ever one of them, ignore the warning about climate change and what that means for changing behaviors. A BILLION motorcycles and scooters have no doors, wrap around windshields and adjoining roof, certified roll cage, 6 point harnesses and heated seats to keep the riders dry and warm and safer than any two wheeled bike. Adding the security blanket of doors where they do nothing for a design that is fully safe without them is a stupid move. Add glass and you have a solar oven. Add AC and you now have 200 pounds of extra weight that ruins the zippy performance. Tubular upper frames are not conducive to doors and windows except the crude fabric types as found on Jeeps. To summarize, in the last 24 hours you have slandered the CEO, rejected the design and demanded changes that would ruin the design concept that inspired 500 people to buy this. What's next? Accusing them of treason or rape? If this is how you attack US businesses what do you say about foreign ones?

@@popeyegordon - Check the pre IPO SEC filing and you'll see I'm right. Doors are needed if they want to appeal to a broader audience. Just look at the amount of posts asking for full doors. The people have spoken.

@@billsmith5960 By "the people" you mean the ones who have been addicted to climate controlled steel caged lounge couches for their entire lives, unable to comprehend any more sustianable transportation? Experienced motorcuclists by the hundreds of thousands scoff at the idea of doors on an autocycle. A billion motorcycles and scooters have no doors and that has not affected global sales. Those buyers want economy and fun over being sealed off from nature by a cabin that is heavy and turns the vehicle into an under powered solar oven.

The tilting motorcycle conversions provide steady income. The MLM was just too much, too soon in our pandemic/war economy.

@@popeyegordon - TMW loses money. Just read the SEC filings from Arcimoto: Paid: 14,792,438 Profit from 2021: -7,950,766 Profit from 2022: -1,643,409 So, TMW (which was in business before they bought them has cost Arcimoto a total of 24,386,613 in just two years. Imagine what they could have done with that money if they never bought them.

@@popeyegordon - So, how many years do they need to lose money? TMW was founded in 2006. Started shipping in 2014. Arcimoto bought them for over $14M in 2021 (year 7 of production). So they lost just shy of $10M in the last two years. So will year 10 be the breakthrough? When does TMW stop being a startup company that just makes a kit for only 3 manufacturers of motorcycles (total of 8 models). Yet you said, "tilting motorcycle conversions provide steady income." Which shows you do not check facts. As we see, they do not and in my opinion, they're no longer a startup. Maybe for you, they are and thus at what year do they not become a startup? 10? 20? 30?

@@billsmith5960 *FACT CHECK* - I invite all readers to look at the disgusting obvious bias and dishonestly built into all of Bill's poison posts. Note how he said "need to lose money" as though it was obligatory or required. He even insists that TMW revenues must be matched or exceeded or Arcimoto is a failure even though they do different things with the patent. Quarterly reports show steady income from tilting kit conversions which are done by Arcimoto in a special shop. Finally, LOOK at his last sentence where he outright LIED about how long Arcimoto has been in business. The information about the 12 years of R&D on a shoestring budget as they went through at least 5 designs is available from multiple sources across the internet. They offered stock and a working prototype starting about 5 years ago. That's it - just 5 years. The first ones sold for $45,000. The second release cost $25,000 base price. When they got enough investors they bought their first small factory to build the FUV model about 3 1/2 years ago. *THIS ONE NASTY POST OF HIS HAS THREE MAJOR BLATANT LIES!!!* Flag these lying hater trolls. None of them have survived past the 40th flag for harassment. I got two of them banned myself, now Bill wants to be the third. You know what to do.

@@popeyegordon - Please ban my facts. It's better to have us just make up numbers as opposed to the ones Arcimoto presents in their SEC filings.

Cybertrike project has been shelved. They mentioned this a few months ago.

@@billsmith5960 Hi Bill, that's all good, but I'm not ok with Arcimoto shelving my money and not reaching out to me and ask if I want a refund.

@@enzodarro179 - Yes, communication with the company has gone downhill. You'd think that they would at least inform the depositors that this project will be delayed for an unknown amount of time, thus you can make the decision to either stay with the reservation or get your money back. Instead they are relying on you waiting or diving into their SEC filings to figure it out. In the SEC filings - "Research and development on the MLM has been put on hold as part of our operating cost-cutting efforts." They also have $120,600 in deposits for them. This means they have 1,260 reservations as they are all $100 each.

Yes

Agree completely

Nonsense. I would have no use for that and would not want to pay any premium for it. I have owned my FUV for 18 months as my only transportation but have never run the battery below 50%. I just plug in when I get home and its always ready to go. Home charging a sensibly sized battery is part of the advantage. The entire Tesla concept, from bumper to bumper, is a disaster. They are way too big and over powered status symbols that are so wasteful they can not offer a reduction in environmental impacts. The fact that they sell well is another aspect of their unsustainable design vs. uneducated consumers. Each Tesla contains enough materials to make 3 or 4 FUVs. Knowing that, is there a battery mineral shortage or a battery mineral squandering? If the rear seats of Teslas rarely carry passengers you are seeing a continuation of the waste seen in our ICE cars which are also too big for most owner's needs.

He is still there, as the head Visionary.

They gave him a title that keeps him there. Since he owns most of the stock, they couldn't have given the boot. So, he is MIA except for a few twitter posts.

DUI, unfortunately. Also, he was taking the company too far and wide before making 1 successful product.

@@WILL_E_1 Your personal opinion about his management is just that. And the DUI was a technicality that resulted in a year of probation only because he was simply sitting on a park bench having a beer but he forgot to remove the key from his Roadster. He was not driving so 'driving under influence' is a stretch. That's why his record will be cleared after the probation.

Well I never heard any explanation so if that's the true story then that's a good thing.

You would demand doors and glass and climate control, ruining the benefits of the light EV design.

@@popeyegordon Nope. I want the roadster.

@@tomblewomble3369 Of all the choices, that is the most dangerous and least practical. It does not sell well either. The only thing about it that is safer is traction on the road in wet conditions.

UK would be a perfect fit for the roadster and the Deliverator (new design) would fit in for London. With a set of doors, the Deliverator would outsell in the UK over the total US sales. Hope Chris sees this as it's a way to ramp up production.

If you followed Arcimoto closely you would have heard about the closing of the MLM project late last year. The workers were furloughed. It should have been held off until sales had grown substantially with the FUV.

@popeyegordon why havent arcimoto be up front with their clients 😒

@@TheWelshman50 There is no evidence anywhere that they were not up front. It was announced in financial news feeds and to their email list of all customers. You will find it is rare for any company to take down videos that talk about a new product that was later delayed or cancelled and some YT videos about the MLM were posted by independents. They just want clicks for ad revenue. For example, production ended for the 3 wheeled Electrameccanica Solo but there are still dozens of videos for it here, as though it was still for sale. Facebook still has a fan club for the MLM which never went into production. It was before its time based on the pandemic/war economy that hurt all businesses. The investment in R&D could still pay off if it is resurrected later.

@popeyegordon must have forgot to email me so does that mean arcimoto is going to refund 100 usd to everyone 🙄

@@TheWelshman50 They have refunded some of the FUV deposits. Try contacting them again. It was offered as refundable but if you let it ride there is a chance you'd be in the short line later.

The first has been shown in dozens of Arcimoto videos on this channel. The second is a global issue, duh! No company anywhere has not been hit by parts and materials shortages. There was this thing that happened with a virus and then that thing that happened in Ukraine. Don't pretend those did not happen. All on top of the always hard effort of building a new type of vehicle. Elio didn't make it. Aptera is making claims but none delivered. There are 500 Arcimoto owners and 200 in rental/demo fleets.

@@popeyegordon - "then that thing that happened in Ukraine". What does that have to do with Arcimoto? They have never mentioned that anywhere yet you keep bringing it up. I suggest you contact the company and tell them that they should bring this up as it's obviously a problem they never realized was there. I appreciate you doing this as a FUV owner since they will listen to you. Can't wait for their webinar telling us how it's affected their business, plus how it will in the future (since the war has no signs ending anytime soon). This makes me feel that if the war continues, Arcimoto will be broke really soon (if this is the actual case).

@@billsmith5960 FACT CHECK - Arcimoto videos do in fact mention pandemic and economy factors. Especially in the quarterly reports.

@@popeyegordon FACT CHECK- No mention of the Ukraine. The "economy" is always a concern for every company. Plus, the pandemic has been over for a while. So you can only blame it for so long.

It was announced several times last year that the MLM project was put on hold for now, workers furloughed. This info was included in several of the latest videos and the quarterly report.

What hateful dishonest nonsense. He IS Arcimoto. It was his design concept from the beginning. He is the Henry Ford of autocycles. Obviously you also blame him for the pandemic/war economy that has been hard on all businesses. He still has a high position at the company.

@@popeyegordon Henry ford worked hard and retired changing the auto industry. Do not compare him to a CEO who has been replaced with another to save the company.

@@ryankalavesis3466 What an odd and confused comment! Ford had to start somewhere, his Model T did for the car what Frohnmeyer did for the autocycle. Elio didn't cut it, Apteras have yet to go into production but the FUV has sold 500 and has 200 rentals/demos despite starting in a pandemic/war economy. Mark was moved because of a legal problem which was a bogus charge. After a year of probation he will be vindicated. Ford did things as a matter of business that would land him in jail today so they have this in common too.

What an idiotic idea to come up with in 2023 when we are well into a global climate change emergency. The entire reason for this company is sustainable emissions free transportation. By 2035 no new personal cars will be gas powered. None.

There never was a promised 11K price. In 2018 the statement was made that a pricing goal of 12K for a mass produced version was a hope for the future. Along with that there was no promise that the price goal would not be adjusted for inflation. Also, they made the $750 optional trunks standard this year so that old trunkless price is obsolete. Add $750 to $11,950 and compute for inflation to the year 2024 to see what an equivalent price would be when full factory automation is achieved.

He looks like a short Middle Eastern Jew?

Happy workers are essential to building good products put together right. Stressed intimidated workers do only what they have to for a paycheck.

Polaris makes a flat bed that has full enclosure and it's electric. They sell them in all 50 states and through dealers. Unless Arcimoto figures out how to beat them, I wonder where they think this business will come from? Obviously, not the state and national parks. I guess this last mile delivery (which is the new catch phrase) will save it? Only time will tell. Plus sticking a box on the flat bed is just cannibalizing the Deliverator sales.

Please ignore the relentless troll attacks here by the Bill Smith channel. He is nothing but negative, negative, negative! A billion motorcycles and scooters have no doors or roof or wrap around windshield or roll cage or 6 point harness and yet sales have not slowed down for those. Arcimoto offers a far safer experience compared to going from a car to a motorcycle. Plastic doors are just a security blanket that keep you hotter in warm weather. Windows with that clear roof makes it a SOLAR OVEN! YOU have not designed and marketed a vehicle from scratch so YOU have no more credibility than the Smith troll.