Recent content by KevinRS

Yes. Basically when it's 100%, that will be when they start delivering trucks, well, at least shipping them out within 12 hours.

Yeah, but you were talking a base speed 10 mph over the speed limit. Try making a trip sometime consciously holding your speed to the limit, and you will find that you really don't have that many more people passing you. If you time it, you also find the extra speed doesn't really make much...

I think what we are seeing in the maker, with no price, is just a concept render. it may be completely different in the next months.

I mention hello kitty because I've seen hello kitty wraps in videos.

Yes, they have basically said as much. As well as no one's going to get to sit in a production vehicle until they start shipping to customers. So I think they are refining, improving, and testing actively right up until the first truck starts down the line that is destined for someone's...

We do not know the answers to those questions, no one will until they have the truck in their hands, but the top speed limit in the country is 85, and top speed limit in AZ is 75. Difference in arrival time even on a 200 mile trip, even if it was 100% highway with no slowdowns or traffic, would...

All of which means Slate isn't going to print and sell you a wrap with trademarked characters, logos, etc on it unless you show that you have the right to use them. So no mickey mouse, no hello kitty, no coca cola wave. But if you give them a hex code color for a solid wrap, that isn't coke red...

Most of the employees that we are able to connect with really wouldn't know. Until engineering and manufacturing pass along the info on it, the person at the end of the phone call, chat, email, or working an event doesn't have the info. What we do seem to know is somewhere in the design...

Slate just wouldn't even come close to meeting the requirements of the RFP, for example it requires a 95th percentile male to be able to stand in it without stooping, while also being under 122 inches in overall height. I think EV tech has come along far enough since Oshkosh was awarded the...

In my area, there are probably a significant number driving over 100 miles a day, round trip. It's a "supercommuter" area. My father for years had around 50 miles each way, and others have more. The higher paying jobs are where housing is also high, so people live farther from the jobs, and...

The problem there is the integration. Too many complicated systems all connected together, gets real hard to diagnose. Even on my 2015 Versa apparently a taillight issue will trigger a transmission error code, leading to replacement of transmission sensors.

On the other hand, they need to take the easy sale, and not put too much effort into low return areas. And New York? If someone is going to buy a truck to use there, move furniture appliances etc on a small scale, can you think of a better option?

The frunk hooks by roadrunner is actually accurate, something somewhere mentioned it.

If they are going to do a cross country trip from the factory, where do you expect them to end up? It's also not "another California event" It's endpoint is ending at an existing California event. I'd assume that then that truck joins the 2 rideable and 1 display trucks at the events going back...

They may well have recruited shops, but we aren't going to know. I don't even expect them to have done more than the webinar way back, because shop owners aren't going to be interested in signing up way ahead of time with no benefit to doing so.