Generative Design Improves Arcimoto's FUV: The Cool Parts Show S3E3

The Fun Utility Vehicle (FUV) from Arcimoto is a car designed with an eye to micromobility and environmental sustainability. The lightweight, low-cost electric car, which came to market last year, was designed for the kinds of typical short trips involving one or two people that match the vast majority of car trips drivers take. What the company did not see is the way its non-traditional car was still subject to the limitations of conventional manufacturing. An encounter between Arcimoto founder Mark Frohnmayer and Avi Reichental, co-founder of ParaMatters, allowed the latter to observe how a variety of the car’s components could be redesigned for lighter weight through the combination of generative design and additive manufacturing.
On this episode, we look at FUV parts before and after their redesign for AM. We show replacement parts made additively that may look crazy, but perform the same function as their conventional counterparts with less weight and perhaps considerably fewer manufacturing steps.
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- A Ford part now made through 3D printing - The Cool Parts Show S2E1: www.additivemanufacturing.med...
- The link between additive manufacturing, sustainability and the circular economy: www.additivemanufacturing.med...
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[@paramatters-themostpowerfu4208]

That has been a great project. ParaMatters team was pleased to collaborate with Arcimoto and XponentialWorks

[@lionsandlenses949]

This is exactly the kind of stuff I want to see Arcimoto getting into

[@Lulu58e2]

Thank you for this. I've invested in Arcimoto (a little) and I've heard Sandy Munro talk about his work with them. It's interesting to get more information on how they're going to streamline both the FUV and the manufacturing of it. I'd be curious to hear more about the cost, quality, labour and time comparisons between more traditional CAD + machining + welding and newer design and additive manufacturing / casting.
It sounds like Tesla is moving towards casting the entire frame of the Model Y, so it seems like Tesla is predicting an overall win for casting. I would imagine that Tesla is also looking at how they can trim excess material from their castings.
Also, I live in the Pacific Northwest where it's very rainy. I'm curious to hear about the FUV being used in the rain (and snow).

[@MaxisMBQ]

Fantastic. I am working on an E-bike back in my country. It's what I'm starting with. I'm really enthusiastic in e-mobility and micro-mobility as well.

[@rrudy8210]

16:22 love it when they realize that AM is about something bigger than just a transformation of part design and manufacturing

[@fataznboi911]

Arcimoto is grossly underestimated.

[@2nd3rd1st]

Sure, but they also still have to prove themselves.

[@humphreyliu3670]

Just a minor note, that third part you featured was a brake pedal, not a gas pedal. And there is no gas pedal in an electric vehicle, anyway!

[@michaelschuler7397]

My motorcycle is 350 pounds

[@billhickswasgreat3421]

Is there any reason to think this is not complete bullshit? As in so expensive to as to never go into a mass production FUV...

[@V843v3r]

yet this joke of a vehicle can cost more than a honda civic .lol

[@GOATGamerProSticks]

Now we hit on the cost of inovation light weight is great & all for the vehicle carrying its own weight but crash a super hollowed out frame say by by to all that money spent if you survive lol. Radical designs at great cost with reduced user repairability, if damaged is hard to identify in a latice weave. Even if its modular for parts replacements it will cost the end user dearly? I smell right to repair dodge via complexity not inovative design.