Recent content by Letas

At risk of sounding senile- I think this group gives a ton of slack to Slate on stuff like this. This was released as a promo to show people "look what we can do!"- but it is clearly half-baked and poorly thought out. I'm not asking for a working demo on-sale, this could have been made out of...

Every electric key fob I know of has a manual override... A bit of a pain the first time but once you know how to do it, takes a minute.

One pothole and you're picking up all your nicely organized wrenches...

I daily a 5.7 0-60 car but often drive a ~9s 0-60 car. I don't do launches at stoplights for obvious reasons, but it is a noticeable difference on short on-ramps and the like. In one car, I get to choose if I go faster or slower, in the other, I always have to opt to fall in line behind whatever...

This is already an existing product, Slate likely just contracted it out to an existing manufacturer. It blocks the plate when you have a bike over it, in my experience it's a nothing-burger for enforcement.

Steven Tyler said it best, Dream on!

Perhaps, but perhaps not. We've seen the market improve a bit since Tesla initially released ($25k initially for a new battery, down to $10k-ish now), but it seems to be flattening. I don't think we will see sub $5k battery replacements in the near future, maybe 8k or so. Before labor of course.

RWD Off-Roader, lipstick on a pig.

Slate was built around affordability and “extreme customization”. The affordability topic has been beat to death- I won’t touch on it more. So far none of the customizations are any different than you could do on an F150. And those communities already exist. And it’s more fruitful to build them...

Seems that Slate is investing a bit of money in small creators to show how "customizable" this truck is. Love the investment in the creators- assuming they are being well compensated- but I can't help but feel that these customizations aren't specific to Slate.... I could put a custom...

With you 100%- still have my reservation, but frankly do not expect to purchase unless I am pleasantly surprised by the final product.

I fear you are going to have to temper your expectations a bit. This is a pretty common theme in the low-service D2C model, and it is designed to keep cost down. Canyon Bikes is one that comes to mind- Canyon makes great spec bikes at prices that other mfgs can't touch. But the bike comes in a...

They…. Won’t.

I think even "factory-trained" is a stretch.... I have a feeling this will be little-more than Slate opening their training materials to these facilities, same as available to consumers.

CAFE is - for all intents and purposes, dead. There are no penalties for noncompliance.