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The battery packs in the Slate EV Truck will come with the lithium ion cell formulation known as NMC, or Nickel Manganese Cobalt. I've noticed conversations here on the Slate Forums in more than one thread regarding the assets and limitations of NMC. There is debate over whether EVs with this...

I agree with everyone's observations here. Tom Moloughney's State of Charge YouTube channel will offer excellent advice on this topic. Another very good YouTube source for examining the intricacies of charging equipment choices is Nikki Gordon-Bloomfield's Transport Evolved channel. One thing...

Preston Tucker and the 1948 Tucker Torpedo . . . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preston_Tucker

The BYD shark is a hybrid, so it's more of a direct competitor to the Ford Maverick. A quick (hardly definitive) web search for electric Chinese pickup trucks really didn't bring anything up in the same size class as the Slate. The closest I found was something called the Kaiyun Motors...

There's a couple/three ways I could go with this. I've shown elsewhere on this forum my 6A/120V/720W "portable" solar setup (which ends up being closer to around 600W under real world conditions.) The EVSE I bought for that project is one of the Chinese-made Zencar units. The one I have allows...

I think it was in the comments section of a YouTube video the other week (Top Gear channel?,) but a lot of folks there were speculating that the success of getting 100K+ deposits so quickly was an unexpected pleasant surprise for Slate. Conducting a smattering of west coast live events this...

The channel is called RJ's Garage. They get B-roll footage from others and slap an AI voice on top. They actually produced a positive one on Slate just the other week, so they have no real editorial soul, just a click bait machine designed to get a reaction. YouTube is chocked full of these.

I don't have any personal experience with Epoch, but they get a lot of good reviews from trustworthy sources. That 48V heated marine-grade I threw a picture of up here pack looks really good for something you would put in a truck and have exposed to weather extremes. Boy I wish I could help...

Exactly. I was a teenage high school auto shop kid with a learner's permit in the early 1970s. American cars were terrible back then. The Japanese cleaned our clock with affordable vehicles that were well designed, weren't proportioned like an ocean liner, got good gas mileage because they were...

This sounds like something that would have been said about Chinese EVs a decade ago. No offense, pal, but you really haven't kept up, have you? Even Tesla isn't selling well in China now, where they were once very big. And it has absolutely nothing to do with Elon's bizarre politics. It's...

The basic yellow will be very affordable. However, all those dirt smudges and scratches will probably have to be reproduced as individual decals. Could get expensive. :cool:

Sort of a point-by-point reply here . . . 1. I wouldn't try to overthink it too much. Generally, I'd opt for a Truck with the biggest battery you can afford. Most of time, you'll want that battery for simply driving as far as you can go. If you're going to do a lot of 151 mile trips in a 150...

I think you've exaggerated the comparison greatly here. Staying with the gasoline engine vs. electric motor, it's something like 300 moving parts vs. about 3. Because torque is constant with an electric motor through the entire RPM range, these is no need for clutches and a complex gearboxes, or...

Yeah, I have an ICECO portable fridge/freezer that I like very much. This particular power station they make looks to be very good and I've considered purchasing one. Sometimes they go on sale and end up being a particularly good value in that size and performance class. 5 or 6 years ago, these...

It's true: resistance heating elements are going to be overall less efficient than a heat pump. Considerably so in some cases. But for all the cold climate dwellers out there, it's also true that heat pumps start to really struggle at the most frigid of temperatures inside a vehicle's cabin. So...

Back in the 1970s, when I was a kid and just getting acquainted with cars of the day, everyone and his brother seemed to have a VW Beetle. These cars were simple enough that many took it upon themselves to be their own mechanics. Beyond factory authorized repair manuals and aftermarket books...

All these companies -Bluetti, Ecoflow, Jackery, Anker, Pecron, DJI, etc. - have extensive product lines and make these solar generators in a bewildering assortment of sizes and styles. They also refresh their product lines fairly regularly and bring new ones to the market all the time. The...

So, we're on the 3rd page of a thread that includes the words "waffle maker" in the title and I have yet to see someone posting a description of one. To rectify that situation, I present the Dash Mini Waffle Maker, which I think is perfectly proportioned to the Slate EV Truck . . ...

A sense of humor is important in today's world. Also, I'm a sucker for cat pictures. Here's my housemate . . . And I checked out GoSun EV Charger you're talking about . . . That's a pretty neat looking gadget, actually. With my i-MiEV, though, half of it would be lying on the ground...

Valid points made by both you and cvollers. The Aptera, in particular, is one I've kept my eye on since around 2009. I remember back then that they were going to make solar an option. But then they realized that their aerodynamic platform is what makes it so desirable for applying solar to it...