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It's hard to go wrong with black.

actually, it looks to be from SA test vehicle: ...from this post: https://www.slateforums.com/forum/threads/engineering-deep-dive-slate-ev-truck-chassis-body-battery-safety-suspension-underbody-undercarriage.12646/ The dead giveaways are the roll bar, the door cut-out shape and the...

Yes, there's a mix of legit and WTF, like stock footage of women giggling and eating pizza and shopping for jewelry and perfume. This YT channel is known for AI type of content. This isn't the first Slate video they've grunted out.

Yes. However, it could be a Slate test vehicle. They don't necessarily look like the Slate Truck we've all seen, but a "Slateboard" unibody lacking the body panels or some other kind of mockup that roughly approximates what the Slate Truck would eventually be. It could be video from 18 months...

The Aptera is a very small, light and sleek EV with a unique transmission gear system, so it's solar panels can provide *most* (all? IDK) of the power it needs. The Aptera is very interesting, but it does not fulfill my needs. The GoSun product literally buries a vehicle under solar panels all...

I agree 100%. All of the doomsayers (YouTube influencers prone to clickbait drama tactics like using words like "FAIL" and making cartoonish O-faces in their thumbnails) always use the same thinking, that because people buy big 4-door pickups that "PROVES" that everybody wants big 4-door...

I change the appearance of my Jeep every few yrs, just for fun, without breaking the bank. It's like renewing wedding vows, refreshes the lurv. I literally can't answer the question what I'm going to do. In my configurator, my truck is Night Owl gloss black, but next week that will feel like so...

There's another major upside to SA's barebones approach: probably lower insurance premiums. All the "added value" features in so many modern cars, whether ICE or EV, have them putting sensors, switches, motors and other assorted gizmos all over the vehicle, end-to-end, top-to-bottom. That raises...

Except Costco doesn't use grocery bags. Plz remake this video with 2 or 3 years' worth of toilet paper, 6 months of sparkling water and 4 rotisserie chickens in the pickup bed as I drive past the long lines at the gas pumps.

Leave Slate Auto Alone!!

I almost feel bad for ragging on the Telo so much. In truth, I really don't hate it. If I were wealthy and had disposable money, it would cross my mind to buy a fun car like this. What I like the most is the tunnel storage. I love that they're taking wasted space and making it useful. I...

Yes, it is. And it's the least of it's problems.

I haven't watched enough EV test drive videos to know, but this Telo sounds bad. Lots of loud motor whine and road noise. Jay: "Buttons. Screens." Telo Guy: "We, uh, we... A...combination of screens and buttons. Yeah, that's the ticket." I'm somewhat baffled that Jay Leno is still alive. Or...

Seen it before. It is literally apples-to-oranges comparison IMO. The Slate is for DIY folks and cheap commute folks and holdouts like me who have waited YEARS for a sensible option to present itself. And the Slate is for companies needing to build up their fleet. If a worker bashes into a...

If you took that tiny solar panel off your calculator and put it on a personal computer, it would not run that personal computer. Not even close. There's the GoSun contraption. It's $5K and you bury your car with it everyday and it's copious panels only capture about 10-12 miles worth of power...

Not a lot of details here, but Sandy Munro mainly says that he's impressed by how easy it is to DIY disassemble/reassemble a Slate Truck and why he thinks Jeff Bezos invested in Slate Auto and not the others.

metal auto body panels require enormously expensive and just plain enormous equipment (3 stories tall) to stamp them out, so with this truck's makers fully intending to NOT do that in their own future factory, where'd they get these metal panels stamped? It probably isn't metal. There are some...

I could be completely wrong about this, but I believe SA has said that if the user wants to have a infotainment-like screen in the vehicle that displays the vehicle's data, it needs to run the Slate app, which means a tablet computer is required, Android or iOS. A monitor is not a computer...

I've been driving a Jeep Wrangler for 27 yrs. I live in the Southwest where it is sunny, warm, generally mild weather most of the year. I LOVE driving around topless and doorless. "Naked." Driving a naked Jeep is like a rollercoaster ride without the terror. In the summer, the heavy airflow is...

Yeah, I turned my back on oranges many years ago. I wuz like: all apples, all the time... Until I discovered the grape and now I barely even remember what an apple tastes like.