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It looks like there might be two separate radiators based on seeing a thicker strip of metal towards that thicker piece of bumper. Maybe the lower portion is the AC condenser and the upper portion is the battery/motor cooling loop? Also LOL @ "NiceTime" wipers, searching those gave some...

Me going 95MPH on the interstate in my Slate as I look up from my Candy Crush game to see a wall of stopped cars: All jokes aside that lift looks nice on it. Can't wait to try getting in and out of one to see how much of a difference the 2'' makes. My Element is just 1'' too tall for easily...

My first car [Illinois] never had the mounting holes drilled so I never bothered with a front plate. Never was pulled over but was told it was a guaranteed 'reason to pull me over for anything the cop wanted.' Never got pulled over in Illinois for it for the 10 years I drove that car there...

It happened to me in Detroit, we had a full blackout for three days. I remember cars abandoned on the side of the highways that were stranded in the gridlock for hours only to find the gas stations were all out of power too. It happened when we were in the Henry Ford museum, they sure cleared...

Yeah, that looks just like the electric rack for the Fit. Looks like what might be power coming in on the bottom, looks like the rack has a little cutout for it on the bottom there. I don't see the usual pair of lines coming out of it for hydraulics. The three fill ports. Brake fluid...

My mother's former 2011 F150 was a fleet spec 2-door F150 with only the two door speakers. It was fairly middling by car audio standards then. Nothing will sink as low as my Geo's terrible 4'' dash speakers and afterthought 4'' rear speakers GM hung in a cavity just to say it had 4 of 'em.

I blame Beverly Hills Cop and Twisted Metal 2 for burning Axel into my head at an early age!

It's interesting they went the traditional power steering option, if they did. My '11 Fit's electrical power steering has been pretty much foolproof, and the tiny assist motor doesn't take up much space on the rack itself. It does feel a little numb compared to other cars I've driven, but it's...

Yeah, all RWD and AWD vehicles have drive axels to both wheels, however it comes down to the differential for sending power to one wheel or the other, or both. I'm assuming most modern cars use open differentials in the rear wheels unless it's a sports car or off-roader. I'm sure the...

Ford, for their 2017 and up fleet trucks, have a center console, seat, seatbelt, all-in-one unit that bolts in the middle. Slate could probably mimick something like that.

Excellent pics, very excited to see the 12V accessory / cig outlet as that tells us there's 12V power running through the dash. The USB ports are an interesting touch, wonder if that's additional USB for truck connectivity if you aren't using a phone for updates. Or just more charging. The...

I'm on the same page as you are, I'm skeptical of the removable doors. Slate's renders don't show much about what's going on in that hinge area. I've unbolted a door/hinges from a car and re-aligned it and I don't wish that on anyone. I've seen Jeep's bottom bolt hinges and it makes a lot of...

Ford's early '10s era fleet radios feel like a good fit for the Slate. Nice and simple, if only the buttons were rectangular: I've got a spare junkyard 6-disc changer version that I pulled for someone's now-sold fleet F150. One of the contenders for what will end up in my Slate.

Richard Karn's not doing anything these days, I heard three pocket hose 360 ads from him on the radio today alone! I want an EV pickup, should I spend updwards of $60K on a Scout?

They've shown power door locks in the builds they have so far. So it's at least two wires for that. As long as you can cap off whatever connector they've got with something water-tight I would think it wouldn't be so bad, but we haven't seen them actually show off a real doorless Slate yet.

Ah, so they come off. I was worried they'd be flip-to-open like the other side and you'd have to keep them up for the speakers. Curious if the other side is equally as removable like that. Either that or it's a prototype piece that just fell off LOL. Edit: I see a seam where the other speaker...

I'm no boomer or gen-X'er, I was 100% laser targeted by that flower-stickered Slate and that pickleball video, but I'm 100% on team "I'm gonna slap a radio in this thing no matter what." whether it's a double-din (ideally) or mount a radio under the dash like I'm adding one to an old...

I'm just happy to see someone else banging the Fiero drum, that's the vehicle I've been most comparing the Slate to. I just hope they can figure out a cost effective way to make those composite panels on the cheap. Even Honda went away from them on the last 3 years of Element, instead opting for...

Haven't caught up with the thread yet but I'd like to add that Oklahoma of all places seems to have lithium. They're building a lithium refinery out there, https://stardust-power.com/. I don't think they're mining OK's lithium, but it's another step on the production line that's now US-based...

^This, my friend had remote start on his '99 Plymouth Neon. It can definitely be done with just a keyfob. The Slate also has physical HVAC knobs, so whatever the Slate 'preconditions' the cabin to is probably going to be whatever you have your HVAC set to. Unless those knobs are just spinning...