Recent content by ScooterAsheville

It's fun to take shots at bad dealerships. I've done it myself. But before you do that, you ought to go read some Tesla and Rivian insider forums. Consider the cost of towing your broken Slate 200 miles. Then waiting 3 to 6 months for it to be looked at. Then another few months for parts and...

As a former paratrooper, I can attest that air resistance increases as an exponent of speed. It's like a whiole body punch to jump out the door of a C130 at 150 knots. Whereas dropping off the skids of a helicopter doing 50 was really gentle.

If Slate fails miserably, and I hope they don't, everyone will again jump on the bandwagon that nobody wants two door trucks. The truth is that Slate is a rteally poor test case. Build a shorter, two door Maverick. That is solid test case. Or Toyota, or GM. A well-contented vehicle available as...

I don't know how I should feel about the flood of cancelled BEV projects. Part of me says "fine", because anybody cancelling a BEV was only doing a half-hearted effort to comply. So let them fall behind and fail. Another part of me is sad that so many of us little people will lose jobs when...

Stellantis is a disaster that won't survive the decade. Jeep and Ram are used as profit centers to steer money to a too-large number of disastrous, money-losing European brands. Stellantis will not survive in its current form. Only an idiot would take the manly-man Jeep, Dodge, and Ram brands...

I predict we'll see lots of Leafs in the coming years, and that's a good thing. Slate does not need other BEVs to be flops for Slate to succeed. Slate just has to deliver a vehicle that appeals to 100,000 people a year (or so). We should all be cheering for the Leaf to be wildly successful. And...

https://driveelectricmonth.org/attend This link is to a map that shows events near you. I've attended this in the past. A bunch of BEV owners parking their cars and happy to talk to you about the BEV ownership experience.

The cheaper Leaf was announced as arriving in 6 month or so. Like most OEMs, they led with a higher trim.

Yea, the new Leaf looks like a lot for the money Just for clarity though, that range is for the bigger battery variant that is around $31,500 delivered. The Leaf. The new Bolt. The Equinox. The Kona. The EV3 if you live in Europe. They all have the advantage that they are reasonably affordable...

What the others said. Also, I wager the early owners will throw meetups for locals. Also, lots of towns have BEV clubs that have regular meets where you can touch and feel all sorts of BEVs. Also, I hope Slate appears at some regional auto shows. If the budget allows. For instance, the New...

It occurs to me that one way to make the Slate a successful cult runabout is... Removable doors, rear glass and roof panels. Add AWD, which Slate has strongly hinted at, and you have a nice beach machine. I'm thinking of the vast multitude of small Jeeps that have never left the pavement...

Emphasis on OLD. I hit 69 in Oct.

There are lots of people who waited two and three years for the Maverick. Join the club. It won't be boring. The next year will probably be highly populated with reveals of several small BEV vehicles. Heck, the Munich show is going on right now. New reveals from BMW, Mercedes, VW. Awesome...

I'm an optimist by nature, but one reasonably well educated in the difficulty of auto manufacturing. I read everything coming out of Slate with a healthy bit of skepticism. That said, people I trust say Slate is staffed with genuine industry veterans and professionals who can get the job done...

The Slate has as much in common with the R3X as I have with Idris Elba. And my wife tells me that's not much.