{"id":179690,"date":"2021-01-08T13:11:31","date_gmt":"2021-01-08T21:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eugeneweekly.com\/?p=180880"},"modified":"2021-01-08T13:11:31","modified_gmt":"2021-01-08T21:11:31","slug":"arcimoto-moves-manufacturing-to-new-facility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/extra.eugeneweekly.com\/index.php\/2021\/01\/08\/arcimoto-moves-manufacturing-to-new-facility\/","title":{"rendered":"Arcimoto Moves Manufacturing to New Facility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Arcimoto is moving on up.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Eugene electric three-wheel vehicle manufacturer is moving its manufacturing operations to a 185,000 square foot facility located at 311 Chambers Street. The move falls in line with the company\u2019s 2020 plans to increase production.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to a spokesperson for Arcimoto, the company\u2019s expanded facility is a step toward plans for mass production at a rate of 50,000 vehicles per year. The facility is five times as large as its facility at 2034 W. 2nd Avenue, which will close when the company moves.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIn 2020 we articulated an aggressive goal to achieve mass production within two years,\u201d said Arcimoto Founder and CEO Mark Frohnmayer in a statement. \u201cWe believe the acquisition of this existing manufacturing facility is a critical leap toward our goal.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chief Strategy Officer Jesse Fittipaldi said in a press release that the location has an existing facility, so the company won\u2019t have to invest time and money in construction. Arcimoto can instead go ahead with facility retrofits and production line layout. The company closes on the property March 31.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During Arcimoto\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/news\/home\/20200819005632\/en\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">second-quarter 2020 investor webcast on Aug. 20<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the company reported that it had been working with Munro and Associates based in Michigan to find ways to increase Arcimoto\u2019s production capabilities to 50,000 units a year by 2022.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Although Arcimoto is finding success with partnerships with last-mile delivery like<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugeneweekly.com\/2020\/10\/28\/shipping-news\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> restaurant-to-consumer<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the electric vehicle industry saw its sales decrease in 2019 compared to 2018. Part of this is because of dwindling federal subsidies for consumers and the Trump administration\u2019s orders to loosen vehicle pollution regulations, according to a report by <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mckinsey.com\/industries\/automotive-and-assembly\/our-insights\/mckinsey-electric-vehicle-index-europe-cushions-a-global-plunge-in-ev-sales\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">McKinsey and Company<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arcimoto is moving on up.\u00a0 The Eugene electric three-wheel vehicle manufacturer is moving its manufacturing operations to a 185,000 square foot facility located at 311 \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugeneweekly.com\/2021\/01\/08\/arcimoto-moves-manufacturing-to-new-facility\/\">Continue reading\u00a0<span class=\"meta-nav\">\u2192<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[111,3,101,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arcimoto","category-blog","category-ew-extra","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/extra.eugeneweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/extra.eugeneweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/extra.eugeneweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extra.eugeneweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extra.eugeneweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/extra.eugeneweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/extra.eugeneweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extra.eugeneweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extra.eugeneweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}