Recent content by ScooterAsheville

As a paratrooper, I had a friend from Wyoming who had a jackalope on the wall of his barracks room. He had me believing for two years. Back then (1974) we didn't have Google.

>> the Slate is the most normal looking one of the bunch American pickup buyers are famously styling-conservative and highly conformist. Slate could have done a much more efficient design in many ways, but they saw what happens to any truck that doesn't look like every other truck. You...

Thanks for the link to that site. Kind of cool to see various trucks assembled in one spot. They're a bit off on a few things, but cool anyway. Kudos to the site owner for trying. I did get a chuckle out of the "Massive funding" bullet for the Slate. $1.5 billion is a drop in the bucket in the...

>> I really don't think they mean December 31, and for employees only. I hope you are right and I am wrong. I truly do.

https://www.cars.com/american-made-index/ Here's one source. There are others.

>> the other aspect is Slate is already starting to work at vertical integration I'm curious what they're working on? Vertical integration can be capital intensive. I'm curious what systems they've said they're taking from suppliers. Not trolling. I'm genuinely interested.

A more wishful train of thought is that, if Slate is successful, suppliers will give them better pricing going forward, allowing them to maintain release pricing even in the face of seemingly endless inflation. That's kind of a wishful dream scenario, but it could happen. But only if Slate is a...

Oh this lady was being gentle. Heck, she didn't even burn his stuff. She's being extra nice.

My instinct tells me Slate will sell, but it won't "sell out" for more than a year or so. But a cautionary not about my instinct. Every year for four years now I've been saying on the Maverick forum "No way Maverick continues to sell out this year. The Maverick market is saturated". And every...

Yea, that caught my attention too. My reaction is "well there goes the idea of anybody getting their Slates in Sep, Oct, Nov". When a company says "late Q4", that almost always means December 31, and then to employees - who are actually doing beta tests. I genuinely hope I got that wrong (like...

It seems like we have a little bit of everything in this community. We have cautious laggards like me. And we have enthusiastic adventurors (and I'm glad you guys and gals are out there). We have "just the basic Slate for me", and we have "I'm gonna drop the cost of the truck again on mods", and...

As somebody who waited twelve frustrating months between ordering and delivery of my Maverick, I have to caution you nice folks that it can seem like a loooooooong wait. And I had it easy - some people waited 24 to 36 months for their Mavericks. Remember the clock in high school? How it slowed...

>> Has anyone bailed out and gotten back their $50? Yes, and the $50 was in my account inside of a few hours.

I found three things interesting. (1) Notice they suggest there are various delivery options. (2) Notice they suggest there are financing options. (3) And the $300 non-refundable deposit is very modest. I hope we see a thread on 24 June (we already have one for reservations) where people can...

Having never owned a BEV, I wonder if there are any wall chargers that have that functionality? And a quick Google search says the answer is "yes". Especially smart chargers connected to their own apps. They can schedule for off-peak charging, state of charge, etc.