Recent content by KevinRS

Whoever they have on updating the events page, it must be a very minor part of what they do. The only event shown was almost 2 weeks ago, the fleet page is just as out of date, with 2 events that have passed, and 1 still to come. I know they only have a limited number of event trucks, but I...

While it's not giving us the results of the test, it shows that they are doing the testing. Can you think of anyone just publicly showing their test results on a product at this stage? One that has potential competitors? Probably we will see a lot more stats and test results when they are...

Just from what I can read before the paywall, they are looking to buy up manufacturing firms and use AI to accelerate moving to automation. This likely wouldn't even look at a newer company like Slate, that is built from the start with automation.

I can understand a fee that is equivalent to the average driver's gas taxes, in order to pay for road maintenance, even better if it's done by miles driven, and heavily weighted by vehicle weight. But if it's 284% of the average? Gas taxes are charged both federally and by the state, in theory...

I doubt that will be too much of an issue. 150,000 trucks a year isn't that much of the market: even if Slate becomes wildly profitable, it won't be eating into the other manufacturer's sales that much. All those other manufacturers are struggling to profit with EVs anyway, some are still...

How long does it take to get those test results? My understanding is the first vehicle off the line once they do some internal testing to be sure everything on the line works would be going to those crash test certifications, the next ones would be going to events, with test drives, and other...

In so many ways... the tab button doesn't take you to the next field... you have to use the mouse to click each field...

I think there is a lot of middle ground with Slate, lots of people who are either hopeful but cautious, etc. With Donut, they have made extraordinary claims, and so far have trickled out evidence, and engineers who work on batteries think the physics don't work. So far they seem to be working...

There were cars built and sold in the US at that same time that with 2 adults and 2 children would struggle up milder grades, towing nothing, and AC off.

With a truck though, I can see a frunk being used more, because by default it is the only hidden secure storage. Most of those others do have a trunk.

My point is you in almost any case don't want to turn it off. Having it on means when you accelerate you pull electricity out of the battery, when you slow down you put it back.

If you are looking to go direct to the SUV kit with Slate, yes you may be getting into the range of other EVs. We will know more about if that is true in summer. You can think of it as you get what you pay for. In my case, I don't need to pay for 4 seats. I should be able to save money with an...

So that was a San Francisco coffee shop event... AFAIK it's been months since there was an event there, so either it was unannounced, or it was video taken earlier and just posted. It was post incentive, I haven't looked at the maker on mobile, did that match the original or is it since the...

No, by law, if they have destination fees, by any name, they have to equalize them, so there isn't a penalty for your dealership being farther from the factory. It used to be that a dealer offered you a price, and another dealer offered you a different price and there was no transparency. If...

As far as we know, Slate plans to do something for test drives in summer. Possibly it will be based on them taking trucks to events, hopefully expanded a lot from what they have done so far.