Recent content by Paul

Think you have to wait for what's reality when it finally builds and decide. Tiny trucks still won't exist, BEV trucks in general don't seem to exist under $70k. Maybe the Ford $30k EV truck will be a year away, or delayed for x reasons .... I have liked the stream of information as it comes...

Well you have a country twice the size of Iraq with could be up to 80,000 drones stockpiled and easily deployable and stored from any pickup, truck or house and It takes $1 or 2 million for us to shoot one down before it hits something up to 2000 km away, with a patriot missile. It's situated in...

I'm curious what the actual size is of the new Ford EV, Ford calls it midsized and a Slate is smaller than a Maverick. So if they can pull off that efficiency and price out of a larger vehicle with stuff in it that will be another part of the equation or maybe it is Maverick sized and it's just...

US market will be caught with their pants down. It was all pretty much about - We can make a lot more profit by not making small, inexpensive trucks. Suddenly this week as gas prices jump a dollar, with a war, EV interest will be up and we have nothing but Chinese competitors waiting to jump in...

Since it has a much higher efficiency. Aerodynamically (I forget the context of 50% better) It's probably not going to look like a standard pickup truck - just the worst possible design for wind. A big slab front, tall, with an open box, Giant knobby tires. Lots of stuff underneath to catch air...

There is a big segment who wants "fully loaded" and then they get their monthly payment that approaches home mortgage for a $70k truck and that is the expectation of buying a new truck. So buying a blank slate kind of makes their head explode. It's always hard to break through current...

I'd love to have a two-door pickup. I think four doors really look awkward. Manufacturers love creating this Frankenstein four-door bathtub bed maximum profit of just making one of something. And it really doesn't suit any one buyer. People just keep missing the concept of Slate, Which happens...

Oh maybe your right. HV and LV would both have a battery management system. I would think if you were going to the effort to replace the HV battery And the expense and not writing off the vehicle near end of life (out of warranty) It might have gone down because of the BMS So could be with it...

Everything Tesla does is kind of expensive and proprietary And they don't want you working on it. Since slate does want you working on it, I'm guessing we're going to find out how this system works without out the Cloak and Dagger. Pretty much any new vehicle has some type of battery management...

The whole purpose of it is that it is a really well priced blank slate that Is customized later and people come up with ideas down the road. There are plenty of vehicle options out there that are $40,000 and up that have radios along with complicated head units that don't exactly do what you...

I kind of get why people want a dedicated radio. It's just annoying to start an app that cost $20 and use your data .... to listen to radio. If you're in and out of the car all day for work and what not you kind of just want something that is seamless in the background punch between three...

Because not everyone wants one and the point of the truck is that it's a bare bones blank slate you customize and not keep adding things that make it a $40k truck I am guessing there will be an accessory or someone will come up with something you can add a radio..

That's funny...Depending on your climate, I was thinking that the black roof would be a great idea for winter, which sucks the most energy.

Again you have to go back to making the least expensive truck. You can keep adding things and then it's a $40,000 truck. And it's a really good idea not to do that right from the start and get the other stuff right.

I'm sure you're going to get somebody shoehorning something in somewhere with this vehicle... People have put gas engines in Teslas and v8s in beetles. But the whole concept would be such a massive rebuilt. Basically the Slate has a drive unit on the back axle and a frunk with no drive unit...