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My arm chair opinion is that Arcimoto should have stopped with this(meet my personal needs fully enclosed three wheeler) R&D build. Apparently, things change along the road to production. 
This picture looks similar to the Storm Sondors electric 3 wheeler. I always thought that vehicle looked GREAT!! It would not have fit my personal needs, but I liked the concept & design.
Company was founded 15 years ago. At what year does it not becomes a new startup?
They launched production 12 years later
I agree. When they decided to go public (10 years after founded and 2 years before production). Here we are 3 years later and they are still struggling.
Incorrect. Elio (just like Arcimoto) asked for deposits and public funding. Actually Mark is doing it harder because he could easily create an IPO and raise money. Arcimoto raised $19M on the original IPO. Elio raised $16M. They had zero financial roadblocks. Arcimoto was started by a rich engineer. So he had lots of money to get it going. Elio was bankrupt and installing roofs. Arcimoto just printed another $12M in cash. So I'd not consider that to be a financial roadblock.
I got reprimanded many times. This is because it's a pro Elio forum. If there's a pro FUV forum, I bet I'd get reprimanded by just stating facts that the company produces.
Things change but in the end, they were taking way too long to get to production and having way too many design changes. Top it off, their road to production resulted in just 228 sold in 2022. What we really need to look at, is the $40K they lose on each unit sold.
It was one of Arcimoto’s prototype builds.
Here's a link. It'll show you the timeline. The fully enclosed one was launched in September 2009. Literally 10 years before they went with their current production. This was approximately 3 years before Elio started taking reservations for their enclosed autocycle.
My definition of a new startup vehicle company is when they actually cross the production finish line and have a product to sell. New Startups struggle and will short or long term succeed or fail Based on business decisions and market demand. A couple of new owners received delivery of their FUVs, so they are still in business.
Wow! Yes, based on your mission and my preference for a fully enclosed FUV. I don’t think it would be as much fun to drive/ride. The reality is, back in the 2014 range Arcimoto was about to call it quits because they couldn’t build their electric three wheeler vehicle light enough to make it range practical and affordable. Arcimoto’s engineers came up with the idea of going to handlebar steering that shed 900+ lbs. off the vehicle weight and the SRK- FUV was born. That decision, good or bad in our opinions, allowed them to continue on THEIR MISSION to ultimately cross the production finish line. The BEX is yours and the FUV is theirs. Knowing the A Team, they would support your mission and welcome the competition, without being critical of what you choose to do along the way. My recommendation is to focus on the BEX, because the FUV might fail and that would broaden your market base. If they are successful, I would expect to see a rAMP in China one day soon cranking out the FUV platform vehicle models as part of Arcimoto’s worldwide production expansion plans.