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It's hard to compete with that shape. The Slate and Rivian are only a little more raked forward than a Range Rover.

They have their design studio in California so I wouldn't be surprised if they have a dedicated group that just shows up to California events. Radwood SoCal is in late October and I'd hope they'd make a showing there. Actually there's a Radwood in two weeks in Detroit, they really should show up...

This reminds me of an article put out a years ago about how almost no pickup trucks can actually carry the 'bed pools' people make in them. The data is old but the point still stands: The original site is gone but the infographic was rehosted here.

The Smart ForTwo was able to pass US safety ratings with its tiny front crumple-zone. I remember reading they made the space-frame around the driver an ultra-rigid safety cage like a NASCAR vehicle. Fill your frunk full of beer/soda cans and ice and it'll double as one of those highway water...

I paid about $1500 to ship a car from the middle of Pennsylvania to Texas. Mind you, car transporters are a huge gamble on quality. My only auto transporter experience wasn't the best one. They parked my car under a 50s car, which peed oil all over the front windshield and hood... which the...

In one of the photos of the Slate at the Detroit showing, there's a kid who looks to be 12 or 13 next to the Slate. The hood comes up to about his shoulders. Given Slate's own size comparison on their site, he'd be completely invisible to a Silverado.

The factory's 15 hours away from me. However, I've helped my way-more-die-hard-car-guy friends enough with random projects they've given me full use of their Ram and fifth-wheel. Would be a fun road trip to drive up, pick it up, and take it back. Probably undo all of my delivery fee savings in...

The Honda Elements actually have this constraint. The internal total cargo capacity is something like 600lb, easily exceeded by four adult good 'ol boys.

Realised I never posted a full picture of the final results! Getting some heat soak from the sensor being too close to the hot hood and radiator, but I located it where I did so I'd have plenty of slack to move it down and forward if necessary. In the world of modern cars with every readout...

As the Slate prototypes that have been shown thus far all have manually operated day/night flip mirrors. I'll show you the mod I've done to almost every car I own. It's a real game-changer and, depending on what route you go, really easy. My first car had one of Gentex's earliest 'modern' auto...

You should see the slide of legalese that "Faraday Future" put out about their promises with their new van they claim is an 'empath' and has a 'soul.' If it's hard to read, the terms "estimates, projected, anticipates, forecasts, plans, intends, believes, seeks, may, will, should, future...

My Geo, a wheelbase of 86.6 inches, for comparison. I only had ClipStudio Paint to work with so I tried to go off of wheels. The Geo has 15''.

I don't know if Slate's towing capacity warrants brake controls but I'm sure we'll at least get a 4 pin adapter of some sort.

It's still a head-turner whenever I see Toyota's attempt at a soap step-side bed:

I think, if Slate gets enough sales that it can sustain itself for a second model, is to take the Slate architecture and make a tall-roof van. Similar to how Nissan converted Titans into NV2500s I'm using the tall roof example since Slate's are so much smaller, they could get away with it...

Right you are, dug around the forums for a decent interior shot and found one that's hard to read but clearly has PUSH | AC and PUSH | HEAT also out of curiosity I was looking up what analog instrument clusters for EVs look like, quite the variety: 2011 Th!nk City 1980 Vanguard Comuta Car

This, I'd probably still be interested in the Slate even if was some weird ICE and got 300 hectares on a single tank of kerosene. Years ago my mom wanted a fleet spec F150 2WD 2-door and was only able to find one in a color because it was a mis-order by a local dealer.

Nissan Hardbody pickups around here will not die. I saw one with a massive wood stake bed on it just this week.

I don't know if there will be much to turn off. Low power mode in a Slate will be driving around with the AC off and the windows down... Assuming the 'heater' only comes on when you have it cranked towards heat, we need a fresh-air only mode. That's all I can think of for cutting power. LED...

I've listed my want for a power dimming rear-view mirror before, but here's an actual example of what I'm going to do: This is a 2006 Nissan Pathfinder at the Pick-n-Pull, and the Gentex 4 series mirror I pulled from it on Friday. I'm replacing my Element's standard manual mirror with it...