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It's been a few years since I have had a manual window car. My recollection is rotate forward for windows down and rotate backwards for windows up. These are opposite to that?

Norfolk Southern Railroad services the plant on its mainline between Fort Wayne and Chicago. The plant has two tracks coming in. I am certain Norfolk Southern will be happy to bring autoracks in there for loading of finished Slates.

I think the 100k people that have reservations for a Slate would have just bought a Maverick if they were just wanting a smaller truck. In 2018 we replaced a Kia Sorento that had a fuel cost of 13 cents per mile and replaced it with a Tesla that has had a fuel cost(electricity)of 3 cents per...

My first new car(my wife's actually) was a 1992 Saturn SL2. Kept it until 2004 with 180k miles. Body looked great when we sold it.

For me, I am not cross shopping ICEV/hybrid at any price. I've owned my last ICE vehicle and not going back. I'll take power windows if I must, but EV drive-train is non-negotiable. Fingers crossed that wraps installed for $800 ends up being realistic. I paid $3k for multi-coat red paint on...

Whether it is cost neutral/more expensive/less expensive I hope they ship with manual windows. Never had a manual window regulator fail on the 3 prior cars I've owned with manual windows. I have replaced more power window regulators than I care to remember. Never once I have I thought isn't...

So regenerative braking works by turning a motor into a generator and that provides resistance to tire rotation and consequently acts similar to applying the brakes. It only impedes rotation on axles that have motors so the Slate would only get regenerative braking on the rear axle. It does...

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I think it was filmed before the unveiling. I saw in an interview where Sandy said they already had great videos made but had to wait until Slate gave them the green light to publish.

I think you are suffering from confirmation bias. Because you are not willing to pay $30k for this truck, you think the vast majority of others would not be willing to pay $30k for it either. I have confirmation bias also. Since I would be willing to pay $30k for it I think the vast majority...

This!

3 potential solutions for blind spots. Buy those little round stick on convex mirrors from Autozone that give you visibility of your blind spots. Adjust your mirrors so there is just a small amount of overlap between rear view and side mirrors. Normally we like side view mirrors aimed down the...

In my estimation Slate is taking the Toyota approach. Slate is the manufacturer. Truck is the model. Recall that it wasn’t until the advent of the T100(Tundra predecessor) that Toyota slapped the Tacoma name on their compact truck. Prior to that point it was just Toyota Truck. I think the...

I am really doubting whether panel theft is going to be a thing. Over the last 30 years I’ve owned 3 different pick-ups that I could remove the tailgate on in less than 30 seconds without tools. In those 30 years, I’ve had exactly zero tailgates stolen. There are a lot of parts on trucks that...

Depreciation. I do believe EV depreciation will slow down some with the EV tax credits going away. Scenario 1. Think of the person that doesn't qualify for the tax credit, he/she pays $7500 more than other buyers for the same EV and loses that $7500 as he/she drives off the lot. Scenario 2...

I don't think you can really do that. If you are not a Colorado resident paying income taxes in Colorado you are not eligible for the Colorado tax credit.

I think the chances are slim to none and slim is out of town. When we first start seeing solid state batteries they will likely be very expensive and so not likely to be installed in an EV with price target of mid-twenties. I think they have already said it will have lithium ion with NMC...

I take this as good news. With it previously saying less than $20k with tax credits I was expecting ~$27,499 without credit.

So the fuel taxes are used to support road maintenance so not really relevant to subsidy discussions. I thought Steve from Aptera's owner club did a good analysis on EV versus fossil fuel subsidies.

Huh? Subsidies are paid for by taxpayers. There is no free lunch. Some taxpayers are going to benefit more from subsidies than the portion of their taxes that go to subsidies while others will get less benefit from the subsidies then they pay in to the subsidies.