Real ones in real customer's hands soon it looks.
"The first vehicles through the production line, and the first customer vehicle deliveries this Summer, will be the Signature Series, and they are currently targeted for an April build start. As we mentioned at the end of last year, we’ve been building and testing new subsystems and assemblies prior to building the new chassis on the line in April. We are also making great progress on getting everything in order — conducting detailed design reviews of every subsystem in the vehicle, ensuring that all revisions are final in advance of production. Given the tightness of the timeline and the added complication of moving, it is possible that Signature production kickoff will move into May."
https://www.arcimoto.com/2017/04/spr...h-2017-update/
I wonder how tight they are keeping to $12,000? I'm sure those signature ones will be either more expensive, or free to certain people for publicity.
This seems to be so much further along than any of the others gas or electric, I have a hard time looking at the Electra Meccanica page and believing they are even close to a Q1 2018 fulfilment. Then again Elio has looked close for 5 years, but they have never said something as bold as this Arcimoto update of actual production in a month or two.
I'm hopeful for Arcimoto.
Just look at this for example, from the March 2017 update, a real windshield wiper on the vehicle.
https://www.arcimoto.com/wp-content/...date/Wiper.jpg
From a April 2017 Elio update, the plan for putting a wiper on it.
https://www.eliomotors.com/simple-but-important/