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As weird as it is, I have one 30 minutes from me that a Repair Pal HV certified shop. https://repairpal.com/auto-repair-near-me/auto-repair-in-simpsonville-kentucky/simpsonville-automotive Well rated and EV certified. Guess I'm lucky but they are out there. Just go to RepairPal's site and pick a...

LED bulbs to replace incandescents are also a thing. Probably for off-road use only, but they exist and are cheap.

I went from a manual to an EV. I'd say 1PD is closest to driving my Jetta in 3rd gear right around the power band. It reacts very quickly but you can be smooth. Dropping the throttle pedal leads to noticable but easily controlled deceleration. I will say speed adjustments are made through...

My Samurai's top speed was 70 going downhill drafting that semi. That engine and transmission sure did harmonize in an awful way at that speed and the top's flapping was downright concussive. I loved that car

I'm glad it isn't sit to start. My wife's iD.4 is and it turning off every time I hop out for anything is annoying. My Ioniq5 push-to-start is nice. I would have been good with it on the slate, but putting a key in the dash is wonderfully retro, error proof, and cheap.

Many EV drivers in KY roll around with a "Friends of Coal" license plate. Can't say I'm not considering it.

If you’re not using a roof rack I bet one could use a mounting point to get a ground plane to the chassis.

Then don’t charge to 100% if you live at the top of a big hill 🤷. I think the cold concern is overblown. Battery management will warm the battery if it’s that cold, especially if you’ve had it plugged in and charging.

The engine is still turning during fuel shut off so the water pump is still going - unless you see your RPMs drop to zero while going down hill. When this would suck is if you live on top of a big hill. Then you wouldn’t make any meaningful heat until you reach the bottom so your car would stay...

I hear you, and understand that desire. You’re describing how my wife’s iD.4 drives in D mode. Virtually zero drag while coasting and blended regen/friction brake depending on brake pedal pressure. We both hate this mode and find it scary. You have to use the brake pedal for everything. I’ve...

I frequently do. I also use the brake pedal stopping at a stop sign at the bottom of a hill near my home, every time traffic suddenly slows, or if a stop light turns red/yellow and the distance is too short for regen only to slow me. Regen, at least in the Ioniq only applies mild braking power...

Well said and supported. If we focus on the rolling product - it’s not wasting near as much energy as a Dino burner as it rolls up and down hills. The laggy, late shifts of common automatic transmissions are wasteful and feel bad compared to an always engaged electric drivetrain. Holding fuel...

In the internal combustion world it is optimally efficient. However for the fuel to be cut off the transmission has to be turning the engine. This means the engine is providing engine braking which still makes waste heat and drag. Anecdotally, my Ioniq5 has …ALL… the regen options - including...

I stand corrected, decel fuel shutoff is a thing I didn’t know about. Still far less efficient than regen in an EV. Now if you drop it into neutral and coast it still burns fuel at idle rate, and we were taking about coasting and not engine braking so…

These are better for the Slate:

About $100 buys you a generic blind spot monitoring retrofit kit on Amazon. Gives you radar sensors and lights you can wire up. Also, even if Open.ai isn’t a good fit, for $100 you can buy dash cams that have lane departure, front vehicle departure, and collision warnings. I will be...

Exactly. I expected it to turn into praise. We want the Slate to drive boring. Means it does exactly what’s expected with nothing that catches your attention in a negative way.

I got one! Highlights in the comments include: “Are you the ford marketing guy?” “This has to be Satire” Comments are mainly accusations of OP being a bot and personal attacks back at commenters from OP.

I figured it may be a generic personalized message, but if there’s no message on NC that’s interesting.

I was poking around on the site and decided to click “Preorder” again to see where delivery dates were. It specifically states that “Spots in Kentucky are filling up fast” and offers me Jul-Sep if I preorder now. I have a Q2 window already with April preferred. Do other folks get similar state...