EV-militant Fillion flips off ice-polluters http://www.mnn.com/green-tech/transportation/blogs/nathan-fillion-shares-love-of-electric-cars-on-conan [images] Nathan Fillion shares love of electric cars on 'Conan' Jun 13 2013
[images http://images.mnn.com/sites/default/files/fil-mnn.jpg Photo: "Conan" http://images.mnn.com/sites/default/files/user/131695/arcimoto.jpg Nathan Fillion and Jon Huertas test drive an Arcimoto EV video http://teamcoco.com/video/nathan-fillion-electric-car-zealot If your car isn't sufficiently green, prepare to receive a rude gesture from him. Transcript: CONAN:I think part of living here in L.A. driving around, a frustration of yours is that cars are not futuristic enough. This is a complaint I've heard you voice before. NATHAN: This bugs me. It's the 2,000s. It's the 13s. I have a movie in my hand. Virtual reality. I can do all sorts of stuff. My car still looks like a car. CONAN: When I was a kid, my dad would get brochures in the mail for the car they said by 1991 you'll all be flying around right out of your garage. I don't know why we had to make that noise but it never happened. NATHAN: My expectations are far lower and still not being melt. I'm not expecting a ufo that can park in my house. If you were to slope this down and make it more aerodynamic I would be saving fuel just that much. CONAN: You bought yourself or are in the process of getting a very strange and futuristic car, right? Tell us about this car because I think we have a photo. That's real, right? NATHAN: Ooh, yeah, it's real. CONAN: Why do you sound like a pervert? NATHAN: Look at that thing. First of all, it's addressing a couple of problems. One is resources -- they're building an enormous car to just drive one person to work. So it's just allocating less resources. It's electric and it's skinny. It's a two have seater. Like a cockpit. One guy in the back, one in the front. Two wheels in front, one wheel in the back. In the future there are going to be more cars on the road but we're not going to have wilder roads. The roads are already there, there are buildings in the way. CONAN: Make the cars narrower. We have a picture of how you feel about people who aren't driving an electric car. There you are. A can did shot. NATHAN: That was ah -- I was having a great day. I was pulling up to everybody I saw and they'd say hey that's a nice car. What kind of mile age -- mileage do you get? Whatever car they were driving, if they were driving a Prius I would say you're ruining the planet for the rest of us! CONAN: You could see me in my giant nine-Wheeler. I drive a trucka saurus. Just to be a dick. I don't even need it. Parking crushes the building when it gets here and they have to rebuild it. ] 'Castle' star plugs electric automaker Arcimoto and explains why we should all be driving futuristic and environmentally-friendly vehicles. Nathan Fillion, beloved sci-fi geek, gadget hound, actor, nemesis of Dr. Horrible, and countless other titles, chatted with Conan O'Brien the other night about his love of everything from iPhones to Halloween costumes to electric vehicles. "My expectations are far lower and are still not being met," Fillion said, complaining about how 21st-century cars look nothing like he was promised as a kid. "I'm not expecting a UFO that I could park in my house. I'm just saying that if you were to slope it down and make it more aerodynamic and flat on the bottom, I would be saving a lot of fuel." In response, Conan brought up how Fillion has pre-ordered an Arcimoto SRK, a three-wheeled electric vehicle capable of (depending on the model) traveling between 60-120 miles on a single charge. "(This vehicle) addresses a number of problems," Fillion said. "One is, you're not building an enormous vehicle just to drive one person to work. It's electric, which I think is a no-brainer by now. It's skinny. It's a two-seater. You sit in it like a cockpit: one guy in the front and one guy in the back." Fillion's love for Arcimoto actually goes back several years, when he excitedly told his large Twitter following in 2010 that he had "found his spaceship." The small startup invited Fillion and fellow "Castle" castmate, Jon Huertas, out for a test drive, and the results were marketing gold — with Fillion's tweets of joy crashing Arcimoto's servers and landing him an interview with the NY Times. “It’s the excitement of a motorcycle without that ‘Oh God, I’m going to die’ feeling,” he told the Times. “This is bigger than it looks, and it has a stable platform.” Fillion's endorsement was apparently so convincing that fellow "Castle" actress Stana Katic (who plays his love interest, Detective Kate Beckett) also threw down cash to pre-order a vehicle. Check out Conan's interview with Fillion [above] to learn more about the Arcimoto and discover how the star perceives those who still drive gasoline-powered vehicles. [© 2013 MNN Holdings] Nathan Fillion snaps up pioneering eco-car By WENN June 13th, 2013 Nathan Fillion snaps up pioneering eco-car ... Slayer star Nathan Fillion has become a road eco-warrior after purchasing a Pulse/SRK Arcimoto electric vehicle. http://www.contactmusic.com/news/nathan-fillion-snaps-up-pioneering-eco-car_3718826 Nathan Fillion Snaps Up Pioneering Eco-car 14 June 2013 ... become a road eco-warrior after purchasing a Pulse/SRK Arcimoto electric vehicle. ... http://www.arcimoto.com/product Arcimoto designs and builds the ultra-efficient SRK electric three-wheeled vehicle and EV platform for a sustainable every day ride. ... www.imdb.com/name/nm0277213/ Nathan Fillion, Actor: Castle. Canadian-born actor Nathan Fillion gained critical acclaim and a large cult of fans when he starred as Captain Malcolm Reynolds ... ... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Fillion Nathan Fillion 1] is a Canadian actor. He stars as Richard Castle on the ABC series Castle. 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