{"id":13843,"date":"2010-09-20T13:34:20","date_gmt":"2010-09-20T19:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/?p=13843"},"modified":"2010-09-21T20:03:37","modified_gmt":"2010-09-22T02:03:37","slug":"cool-car-arcimoto-the-green-car-of-your-future-nathan-fillion-approved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2010\/09\/cool-car-arcimoto-the-green-car-of-your-future-nathan-fillion-approved\/","title":{"rendered":"Cool Car: Acrimoto, the Green Car of Your Future. Nathan Fillion Approved!"},"content":{"rendered":"

The folks at Arcimoto <\/a>would like to sell you a three-wheeled car. You know. The Future as depicted in that mediocre movie<\/a> everyone feels so proud to quote whenever future-tech is made real in the 21st century.<\/p>\n

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On August 12 he crashed our servers when he tweeted to the world (or at least the 600,000 of them that follow him on Twitter) about our vehicle<\/a>. Just a week later, Actor Nathan Fillion and Castle co-star Jon Huertas flew up to our little city of Eugene early Saturday to kick the tires and take our latest prototype out on the road<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Browncoats <\/a>and Castle <\/a><\/em>fans are familiar with the driver and rider <\/a>of the Arcimoto pictured above<\/a>. Check out Fillion’s Yfrog photostream<\/a> if you want more photos of a celebrity <\/a>showboating <\/a>prototype green cars. You’ll have to scan back about a month from this post.<\/p>\n

Below the jump, see Captain Tightpants’ video of the Arcimoto Tron’d out.<\/p>\n

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Electric drive is transportation refined, entailing fewer parts and as little as half the maintenance costs. No more oil changes. No more fuel filters. Why use more if you don’t have to? <\/a>You’ll save money on fuel. You’ll save money on maintenance. Oh, and saving the planet comes standard.<\/p>\n

The generation 5 Pulse prototype<\/a> will represent the first “product” prototype in the Pulse family. We aim to have it on the road for testing for the finals of the Cleantech Open business competition<\/a> in mid-November (we are currently a semi-finalist from the Pacific Northwest region).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

via @nathanfillion<\/a>, acrimoto<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The folks at Arcimoto would like to sell you a three-wheeled car. You know. The Future as depicted in that mediocre movie everyone feels so proud to quote whenever future-tech is made real in the 21st century. On August 12 he crashed our servers when he tweeted to the world (or at least the 600,000 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,77],"tags":[3343,3348,3110,3344,3346,3345,3349,3347,273,147],"class_list":["post-13843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","category-the-future","tag-arcimoto","tag-captain-tightpants","tag-cool-car","tag-electric-car","tag-gorram","tag-green-car","tag-jon-huertas","tag-mal-reynolds","tag-nathan-fillion","tag-save-the-humans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13843"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13880,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13843\/revisions\/13880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}