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The electric drive unit is reportedly supplied by JJE: JJE is listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange Science and Technology Innovation Board, the stock abbreviation is " Jing-Jin Electric ", and the stock code is 688280.

Incidentally, this isn't my first compact EV pickup. That picture << is of the '76 Ford Courier I rescued from being stranded under an apple tree and brought back to life as a 156V DC EV powered by 13 100AH AGM batteries. Had a huge 35 mile range!

East Bay, Tri-Valley. Q3 '27. I think thy have to have an event in the Bay Area at some point - I'm sure there's a lot of Slate pre-orders in this area.

Interesting choice of words. A design had to be chosen. Every inch of the vehicle shows design choices. The lack of paint. The color grey. The lines down the sides, exposed fasteners, spoiler at the top rear of the cab, type of tailgate support..... LFP batteries, one 205 mile pack. One motor...

Looks like all the DWCS club members got "July-September 2027"

Based on this, about 20":

Both my Tesla and my cheap Chevy Colorado do. (When I got new tires on the Chevy they put one of the sensors on the wrong wheel, so it reported the wrong one's pressure. I took it back to America's Tires and they fixed it. I'm not surprised that BMW's sensors are expensive; my former brother in...

There will be a lot of EVs coming off lease but without the competition (and artificial price inflation) of EV tax credits there may well be a lot more demand for Used EVs than there is now. A lot of the hesitation to buy EVs has been and will continue to abate as more and more people know more...

I think this is wonderful. I think that the push button start is the worst "improvement" to cars in the past 20 years. If you need to put a specific physical object - like a key or a fob - into a specific receptacle on the car to drive it, you won't leave that object in your wife's purse when...

I'm not buying a meme, I'm buying a truck. I like the Slate not because of nostalgia for the 70's and 80's (although I owned a Mazda B2000 back then), but because a smaller truck is more useful and useable for me. I'm planning on installing a Android Auto screen, cameras, and anything else I...

That is the question. I'm pretty sure it would fit in the center cubbyhole, but as I've gotten into the (bad) habit of looking at my nav screen frequently, I'd prefer it to be more line-of-sight. I've focused on the horizontal screen because (subject to on-site reality check once I see a real...

My current, still quite tentative plan is to have my phone in the mount, connected via bluetooth to a dedicated Android Auto/Carplay tablet like this: which is hardwired via the aux connecter to an amplifier like this: which is hardwired to speakers like this: although I'm still unsure about...

If you look at the Slate in profile you'll see that there's a spoiler on the back of the cab, and the top of the tailgate is flat and elongated horizontally so it projects to the back an inch or so. That's designed to make the airflow curve from the top of the cab down to meet that flat area on...

I think Musk is downright evil. But when his yammering and totally not-Nazi saluting hammered the value of used Tesla's I snapped up a low mileage used Model S for a song, and was happy to do so. My purchase didn't reward an evil man; the car is just a tool, and once it was sold new its resale...

Makes my 7 and 9 year old knees seem like kids. Seriously though - if you were designing knees and had a choice between Titanium and bone, which would you go for? Mine are definitely upgrades I was happy to pay for. ETA: I checked - my knees definitely came from Warsaw! Small world...