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BYD has been making electric busses in California, not far from me.

Yeah, they have raised 700m, and most of that has gone to things like the factory. If you figure a significant part of the price of a vehicle goes to the parts to make it and the work done actually making it, they need a significant part of that near 2b to make that theoretical 75k trucks, on...

Trying to find some info for reference relative to that, it appears argonne national labaroatory stopped tracking sales by model in 2019. They do show for 2024 over 1.5M PEVs sold, 80% being BEVs, so 150k would be a bit under 10%. PEV incudes plug in hybrids, BEV is just Battery electric...

Goes on about if it will beat Chinese trucks, but the 2 markets are not in competition at all. Chinese aren't sold in the US, and Slate wont be sold outside the US. He also stated the price as "under $30,000" which seems to me to be an overstatement on the price. It was planned at under 20k...

Was the point of that 7 seconds just that the tailgate is simple and not one of those fancy ones that costs thousands of dollars?

Anything produced one and a half to two years out from actually selling the product to customers is either going to be fake, or rough, or both. They could go the way other manufacturers might, and release highly produced videos where you don't know where the product ends and the CGI/AI starts...

The thing is figure out how often you actually make that kind of trip. If you are really making that kind of trip all the time, then a Slate truck or other lower range EV isn't for you. Multiple apps? no, just pick 1 out of the multiple. The one Slate provides may be plenty, or you could...

I think all the units that have been in videos have been real early units. They have quoted that they have built something like 70+ units a month or more ago, and most of those went to crash tests, I think the demo units at the events were built before the crash units, and so even changes they...

The videos that they have been posting have been formatted for tik tok and reels ads. I'd expect longer format videos and hands on reviews once they have production test units built, rather than these hand-built prototypes. That will probably be sometime early next year as my guess.

The problem is people need to take a look at what trips they actually take, and how often. The vast majority have their daily drive round trip well within Slate's standard battery range. Over half probably are under half that range. For a once a year, or even a couple of times a year trip that's...

Exactly. Go back to the 80s, maybe part of the 90s, and compare pickup truck sizes. The top of the bed of current trucks is basically universally higher than the roof of compact cars. They didn't used to be that way. There were 2 door trucks with no back seats, crew cabs, and more, and today's...

I found by searching a site that does similar maps, but easier to customize some parameters, though you can't just type in a range, much easier to switch around existing vehicles and try to find one with similar range to slate. https://evnavigation.com/ Once slate puts out solid city and highway...

The slate site's charging page claims 20-50 miles range added on an L1 charger overnight, What you are reporting seems on the low end of that. On the low end, my daily drive is under 15 miles round trip. On the typical high end, every other week a 56 mile round trip. If I was using an L1...

Yes, but the stop at the beam alone isn't what saved him. Either put that beam at the bumper and a strong frame from it back, or just greatly reduce the distance from bumper to beam, and the outcome is worse. The time it takes YOU to go from 60 to zero is increased with crumple zones, and...

Dealer and manufacturer profit drivers have been trucks and SUVs for years, 25 years ago when I bought my first car I found out the "employee price" on a sedan was no better than what they were already offering, but the employee price on a truck or SUV would be thousands off. So they have...

Exactly, most commenters everywhere seem to be obsessed with is max range, and if your daily drive is near or over a car's max range, move along to something else. You don't need to compare it to the range of a tank of gas, because you don't fill up a tank of gas every night. This isn't a long...

Antenna is something that will have to be worked out. Most cars already have them, change a head unit still use the same antenna. Most aftermarket antennas will be designed to mount to a metal ground plane, and won't work nearly as well stuck to or drilled through a plastic panel. That CB whip...

That seems to be an issue across corporate America. I suppose drug companies are mostly an exception, they make all their money on new products. At a large store chain my mother worked at, when "The Mall" was built in the 80s, and the store moved there, the initial plan was to build the store so...

We don't know the highway or city range yet. It is possible that the estimates of combined range shown are conservative. If the designers at Slate are smart, and they seem to be, they undersold on lots of things, to give themselves some margin for changes. We will all just have to decide based...

Possibly those rougher looking units in Arizona were testing out body panel materials. The ones at the events are known to not have the same panel material that the final ones will have. My strong suspicion is the "tour" units were very early units, possibly the same ones they showed off at the...