--- title: "Electric Car Maker Claims Elon Musk Crashed Its EV Into a Brick Wall" description: "The founder of Arcimoto, a company producing electric three-wheelers in Oregon, claims that Tesla CEO Elon Musk crashed one of their cars into a brick wall." date: "2020-12-01" modified: "2020-12-01" authors: - name: "Victor Tangermann" job_title: "Senior Editor" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/victor" url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/arcimoto-ceo-elon-musk-crashed-ev-brick-wall" categories: - "Elon Musk" - "Future Society" - "The Industrialists" tags: - "electric cars" - "elon musk" - "tesla" - "the digest" --- # Electric Car Maker Claims Elon Musk Crashed Its EV Into a Brick Wall ![The founder of Arcimoto, a company producing electric three-wheelers in Oregon, claims that Tesla CEO Elon Musk crashed one of their cars into a brick wall.]() *\Image: Arcimoto\* ## Three-Wheeled Crash The founder of Arcimoto, a company producing peppy electric three-wheeled electric vehicles in Oregon, claims that Tesla CEO Elon Musk crashed one of its cars into a brick wall in the fall of 2019. "Elon is the very first one to ever crash an Arcimoto, a production Arcimoto," CEO Mark Frohnmayer told Galileo Russell, the man behind the Tesla enthusiast YouTube channel HyperChange, in a [casual backyard interview]() surfaced [by *Electrek*](). Musk "jumped into the driver’s seat of Adeo’s Arcimoto and promptly drove it into a brick wall," Frohmayer said, referring to Silicon Valley investor Adeo Ressi's three-wheeler. ## Missing a Wheel Arecimoto calls its strangely shaped three-wheelers "Fun Utility Vehicles," or FUVs. They feature two tandem seats and an electric drivetrain that can accelerate up to 75 mph with a range of around 100 miles. Each FUV currently goes for $17,900 in the US. Ironically, when a Twitter user reached out with a video of Arcimoto consultant Sandy Munro asking Musk for help with some projects he was working on back in September, the Tesla CEO had an [acerbic reply](): "Can’t support 3 wheel vehicles. Not safe enough." In the interview, Frohnmayer also recalled that Musk was involved in a serious motorcycle accident when he was young, which may help explain Musk's reply. **READ MORE:** [Arcimoto CEO claims Elon Musk crashed their three-wheeled electric vehicle]() \[*Electrek*\] **More on Musk:** *[Elon Musk Just Became the Second Richest Person in the World]()* ## Author I've been at Futurism since 2017, where my role has evolved to encompass design, writing, and increasingly editing. I've always been fascinated by space exploration and advanced transportation, which I've leaned into by interviewing luminaries in those fields while closely following the dimensions of policy and regulation that allow next-generation projects to succeed -- or, sometimes, to fail. I'm also keenly interested in the effects of generative AI on society, policies, and democratic institutions, as well as clean energy, physics and biology, and the vagaries of tech leadership. My work for Futurism has been cited by publications including Ars Technica, Gizmodo, PC Magazine, Jalopnik, Fox News, and the New York Post. I spent my childhood living in locations including Manila, the Philippines, and Geneva, Switzerland, attended McGill University, and now live in Toronto, Canada. Before Futurism I worked at AskMen and a small photography studio. In my free time, I'm an avid gardener, foodie, and craft beer lover, as well as a maker of artisanal hot pepper sauces. I have a magnificent dog named Freida. ### Author social links [Bluesky]()