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I think a base battery will be a miss, most produced will probably be extended range (but $3,000 less looks better on paper) I think what the naysayers are missing here is small business and fleet vehicles, now add the early adopters on an individual level, then add the wow, that’s what I need...

I agree, by his logic the corvette wouldn’t be a thing, an ev would’ve never been created, and life would only be about features and price the slate for me will not be a second vehicle, or a 3rd, in fact it has nothing to do with a need at all, it has more to do with a want, it fits in with the...

Generally it’s not the dealer, it’s factory rebates, dealers spend about $6 per day per vehicle for having the car on their lot on consignment, they pay for it once it sells, called a floor plan, the manufacturer needs to sell those units to get paid so they can put more vehicles on that lot

im banking it will work because of how I and seemingly many feel I have said for years now if a company made a stripped down vehicle or remade a say 1970 Chevy c10 with today’s engine and suspension but bare bones interior and interior technology it would be a huge sucess similar to the slate...

I’m reading this thread and wondering why slashsnake is on this forum, it seems to me he is a “it’s going to fail no matter what” kind of guy obviously not a customer and it’s evident this vehicle wouldn’t fit his needs if they gave it away

Not ment for a real truck, most pickup owners don’t use a pickup for much more than a car anyhow I’ll be keeping my full size for towing ect

slates marketing team has been awesome, very memorable mini commercials, different and funny

It would be cool to have key sharing through texting a pass to someone’s phone

Thank you, I’ll have to educate myself one of my thoughts was to possibly get a narrower tire on a second set of rims to see what that does for efficiency or electrons per mile 🤣🤣🤣

sorry for my lack of understanding, like many I’ll be new to the ev world why would you need special tires for this EV, it’s 3,600 lbs which is the weight of a Subaru outback I understand for other EVs, the rivian r1t is 7,200 lbs which would need a higher load range

There is one ? In there LOL 😂

its hard to say it’s likely add ons could run in the $1,000s for most add ons (rear seats and topper kit) their finance company could see this as a great opportunity it’s not likely someone will whip out their discover card to spend $5,000 @ 29% interest one of the things they state is the...

I wonder if SLATE will offer separate payment plan or financing for additional accessories after the sale as in a revolving line of credit purchase some accessories, pay them down buy more

Not sure how it would ever work but it would be nice to have suit case batteries that you could drop in the box (2 or 4) to extend the range even further, add weight for the winter and/or get you just a bit further to the charging station when you push it too far kind of like the ryobi zero...

Most new vehicles unfortunately don’t have spares, and most owners wouldn’t know how to put on a spare (not saying Slate owners will fit that demographic since the pickup is a DIY vehicle) my work Jeep compass comes with a mini air compressor that has fix a flat built in

Something like this but not Silverado

not that I will, but a trip back to my youth, lift, slightly bigger tires, a roll bar in the bed and a whip cb antenna like a large scale RC truck

I would think it’s best to build them on site, most cost productive, it would cost a fortune to ship In 625 frames per business day of production (for a projected 150,000 per year)

I just remember orientating the handles so vibration would lead to the handle cranking window up instead of working the window down