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Originally Posted by freebeard
My goal is an Arcimoto FUV. What do you think of the xBus?
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The Arcimoto does indeed look like fun. The xBus is also a cute vehicle, but doesn't fit my use case. It doesn't have good aero, and doesn't look like it would be good to live out of for weeks at a time.
I was excited by Canoo and Rivian awhile back
https://www.canoo.com/
https://rivian.com/
But unfortunately, both of them got distracted from their original goals. Canoo wanted to build modular custom vehicles, and is now doing stuff for NASA. Rivian wanted to build outdoor adventure trucks, and is now building vans for Amazon.
And those are just two of the actual, real, non-vaporware companies. There were a ton of places that rode the electric hype, scored funding, and then disappeared. It looks like for the moment that Tesla is the only real alternative for an electric car. I wanted to use Champrius for another few years until the other car companies seriously got into the electric game, which would hopefully increase options and decrease prices. But it's looking like that may not happen, first, because supply constraints are driving up all electric car prices, and second, because (gulp) Champrius may not make it that long.