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Autoline After Hours briefly touched on Slate in this week's episode (4 Dec). At the very last minute of the show - in response to a viewer question. The guests were two industry analysts, one a former product planner at GM. Their take was really dour, for what it's worth. They questioned...

On my optimistic side (I am bipolar when it comes to Slate), I am simply hoping that she starts the Q&A session with a basic progress update. You know what would be super cool? If they invite a handful of members from this forum to attend in person. Walk around a prototype and the factory with...

The nice people on this forum attach way too much credence to 100,000 reservations, which were a refundable $50 and taken before the $7,500 credit was revoked. Tesla had a million plus reservations for the Cybertruck, and I think they've barely cracked 50,000. My question has nothing to do with...

You learn something new every day. I was a software engineer for 30 years. I never heard of an "email developer" till now.

A week or two ago I asked the AI how the Slate Auto Series C capital raise was going. AI said no news since the announcement in summer, but offered to check the SEC filings. I declined. That capital raise is every bit as important as all the construction, because without the capital, that work...

I personally can't wait to see Savage Geese get hold of a Slate. They exercise zero restraint. I drive a Maverick, and I loved the Savage Geese review that called my ride "a cheap a-- POS", but then proceeded to title the video "All is forgiven at $20,000". Alas, I paid $30,000 (lots of options...

It is kind of odd that Slate hasn't reached out to Jay for an episode. He's obviously open to driving prototypes. And Slate has surely been in his area several times to date. That's a great suggestion, cadblu.

One cool factoid about the 12v lead-acid battery in your ICE or BEV car.... It's 99.9% recycled material (I'm probably off a few tents of a percent there, but it is 99.x%). Your 12V battery has some recycled lead from the 1950s. BEVs are headed that way, in terms of recycling. Eventually they'll...

They essentially outlast your ownership of the vehicle, and the next buyer's ownership of the vehicle, and the owner after that. I see some links were given above. There is a company call Recurrent that is valuable if you're buying a used BEV (link at bottom). They can assess battery health in...

The trend here seems to be a thirst for concrete information, instead of general guidance and vague promises. I personally try to give Slate a lot of slack on that. They're doing a really heavy lift on a pretty tight schedule. Most OEMs will deliver pricing and detailed ordering information...

Honestly, the Slate news I'm most interested is the results of their C series round of financing. Because Slate has said that's the money that gets them to production. Which sort of, kind of, maybe contradicts what the Slate CEO said earlier in the year (that the $700 million in hand was enough...

I follow AI pretty closely. The models vary widely on accuracy. They're improving all the time (and with stunning rapidity). A lot depends on quality of the training data set, the scope of the training hardware (think the electricity use of a small city, and the budget of most small countries)...

You have a point there. And actually, one of the things Ford is doing with their skunk works BEV is keeping the grizzled industry veterans out of the room. So yea, point taken.

One of the things to remember when thinking aboua a vehicle's market success is that it doesn't matter what a person needs and should buy. It's what they think they need and what they want to buy. It doesn't even matter what a person says they want, because time and time again OEMs have learned...

Tommy share sentiments with a few of us on this forum. We love the idea of the Slate, but we question whether or not there are enough buyers. Remember that it doesn't matter in the least if tghere are 5,000 of us small BEV truck fanboys. What matters is that Slate can sell it at a hundred...