Eric Fritz's blog

(Originally published April 21, 2012)

As Jim likes to say, it STILL doesn't suck. In fact, it's pretty darn awesome. At least that's what the preliminary reports are telling us.

(Originally published Feb. 10, 2012)

Hello again friends of Arcimoto, and welcome to those joining the mailing list from the Portland International Auto Show or other sources. January was a busy build month for us, and we have made a lot of progress on the build of our Generation 6 pilot mule. Read on for the details!

(Originally published Dec. 9, 2011)

Season's greetings from Arcimoto!

Well it has been an eventful Summer.  It may not seem like it based on our website activity, but I will get to that a bit later.  We’ll start from where we left off in June.  We kicked off the summer with a trip down to Cali to show Red 5.  We had some great meetings and filmed a couple videos with Translogic and Stana Katic that are now on the front page.

Thank you to the hundreds of folks who attended the unveiling of ‘Red 5’ Arcimoto’s SRK product prototype!  We had a great time, and really appreciate the outpouring of support from our community and early adopters. For those who couldn’t make the event we have transcribed Mark’s remarks and will be putting that up in a blog post later today for your viewing pleasure.

Arcimoto Unveils 'Red 5' Facebook Event

UPDATE: We are excited to present our product prototype this Saturday, April 23. Because the substantial number of RSVPs we have received would put us over capacity at the Pizza Research Institute, we are changing the scene to a more suitable location just a few blocks away.

Here it is March already and we haven't even talked about our January trip yet. After three weeks on the road, to Vegas of all places, you would think there would be stories to tell. Well, suffice it to say we've been quite busy since our return. We’re heavy into the build of prototype 5 and it is looking sweeeet. We’ve given up electric drive and the new model runs solely on tiger blood (winning!). But more on that later. Rewind to January.

Well we just got back from three weeks on the road, and those trip reports will be up soon. However, now seems like a perfect time to take the opportunity to introduce one of our past interns at Arcimoto. Benjamin Narin interned with us last summer and fall as part of his senior project at South Eugene High School. We have several South Eugene grads working at Arcimoto, including Founder Mark Frohnmayer, and when Benjamin contacted us about the possibility of interning with us we were happy to accommodate a fellow Axeman.

One of the things Nathan told us in his initial communique was that he wanted to be driving an Arcimoto to events by the end of the year. We're all about keeping the Captain happy, so we resolved to make our best effort to comply with that request. In typical scientific fashion, we thoroughly examined our development schedule and determined how and when it aligned with a list of potential events down in the LA area. Ha! Right.

So, we had a good solid two weeks of down time following our last California trip leading into the Cleantech Open (CTO) finals in San Jose the week before Thanksgiving.  Mark was out of the office on his trip to Detroit and DC (the Tour for Rational Vanity...