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This is basically what the Rivian Adventure Network was supposed to be
Ooh, nice, I hadn't heard of that!

https://rivian.com/experience/charging#rivian-adventure-network

Looks like I've got quite a few places to go! Hopefully they add even more parks in the future.

Slate Auto Pickup Truck AI Builds - Post Yours 2026-06-18 10_20_46-Electric Vehicle Charging Stations_ Rivian Network Map — Mozilla Firefox


Looking it up, there are L2 chargers and better at many of the destinations I'd want to visit like Pictured Rocks, Red River Gorge, Sleeping Bear Dunes, Boyne, a bunch of towns along the North Country Trail... It's going to be great!

ABRP doesn't seem to show quite as many:

Slate Auto Pickup Truck AI Builds - Post Yours 2026-06-18 10_39_09-ABRP - A Better Routeplanner — Mozilla Firefox


but I'll just have to figure that out.

The beaver nuggets that I find next to Lakes are markedly inferior to the ones that I can find at Buc-ees. The texture is much more grainy than I prefer.
Oh, the Buc-ees ones are better? I'd passed them over, I'll have to give them a try someday.
 
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Ooh, nice, I hadn't heard of that!

https://rivian.com/experience/charging#rivian-adventure-network

Looks like I've got quite a few places to go! Hopefully they add even more parks in the future.

2026-06-18 10_20_46-Electric Vehicle Charging Stations_ Rivian Network Map — Mozilla Firefox.webp


Looking it up, there are L2 chargers and better at many of the destinations I'd want to visit like Pictured Rocks, Red River Gorge, Sleeping Bear Dunes, Boyne, a bunch of towns along the North Country Trail... It's going to be great!

ABRP doesn't seem to show quite as many:

2026-06-18 10_39_09-ABRP - A Better Routeplanner — Mozilla Firefox.webp


but I'll just have to figure that out.



Oh, the Buc-ees ones are better? I'd passed them over, I'll have to give them a try someday.
It's nice to know there are options in northern Michigan and the UP. Running out of Juice up there would be a nightmare. I'd love to take my slate to pictured rocks.
 

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I've experienced Buc-ees, and I can understand why some people like it, but it feels like an oddly religious monument to gas stations and big truck Texas culture. Kind of antithetical to Slate.

I'd rather pull up to a charger at a roadside park, wander down an unfamiliar a hiking trail into the woods, and spend a few minutes on a bench looking over a lake: that feels more Slate to me than 120 gas pumps and a giant-sized bag of beaver nuggets.

Clean bathrooms are nice though, I'll admit the park outhouse is strictly inferior there.
Well We use Buc-ees on long Trips for a rest break charging and to grab a brisket sandwich. Usually by that time my Equinox is charged and ready to go again.
 

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I think all the employees should personally hand sign the very first Slate off the assembly line. And then proudly display in the front office, or future Customer Experience Center at Warsaw.

Next, take a group picture with S/N 0001 in the background. Have all the employees sign that poster. This would properly commemorate an historic event like this.

Sell the signed poster on Slate’s merch site. I want to buy one!
 

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I think all the employees should personally hand sign the very first Slate off the assembly line. And then proudly display in the front office, or future Customer Experience Center at Warsaw.

Next, take a group picture with S/N 0001 in the background. Have all the employees sign that poster. This would properly commemorate an historic event like this.

Sell the signed poster on Slate’s merch site. I want to buy one!
When I got one of the First 5th Gen 2010 Camaros everyone on the assembly line signed a cutaway drawing of the Camaro and personalized a message to me and my wife.
 

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I like the circuit board design but I don't know them well enough. Some nerd is gonna walk up and tell me that those circuits are nonsense. 😬



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With all of the potential variations, slate meet-ups are going to be amazing!
 

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With all of the potential variations, slate meet-ups are going to be amazing!
I imagine the cities and towns near Warsaw, IN are getting the first batch and they'd be live streaming their meets for the rest of us. 😁
 
 
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