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If that bill passes, and the last I see is that in april it was placed on the calendar in the senate, still in committee in the house, it's another year before a rule has to be made. It may die in committee, and just never come up for a vote. It's been years since I've even tried listening to...

The federal authorization for states to allow zero emission vehicles to use HOV lanes without passengers is expiring, nationwide. Those ATL lanes might be different, as it sounds like they are toll lanes, but I'd double check before driving an EV solo there.

This is where I was talking about comparing a Slate's 1k tow rating to a civic's non-rating. Most likely, if you really want to, you could tow 2k with a Slate as easily as you towed 1k with a civic. I'm not recommending it, just saying people will probably do it. Somewhere there was a complaint...

Some gas stations are rolling out EV chargers. The problem with a swappable battery is, it has to fit, everyone would have to standardize, and even capacity varies between vehicles, not to mention shape, it has to be very secure, you don't want it dropping out in a car accident, and the...

It should probably be more stable even though small, because with the bottom mounted battery, the center of gravity is lower. The impact of ladders mounted on the rack/towers on range is going to depend a lot on speed. For local trips on surface streets it shouldn't be bad, freeway trips at 75+...

That is a major target audience for the Slate. People who don't need more than 2 seats, and may need to haul some stuff sometimes. On towing, Maybe sometime you need to tow some relatively light rental equipment from the local lowes/home depot etc for a project, or tow a small utility trailer...

What makes you think they didn't do that or something similar? The issue is with the time between design and sales, things change. Supply chains change, commodity prices change, tariffs happen, etc.

In multiple threads here I've seen mention of "even a civic can tow 1000 lbs" though I can't find them at the moment, and so I was looking for the actual tow rating for the civic. You've got to compare apples to apples. As I said in this thread, sure a civic "can" tow, but unless someone finds...

That is kind of the point. Someone may have towed 1000 lbs with a civic, even if it wasn't rated for it, and I'm sure someone will tow 2000 with the Slate. In both cases, any damage caused will void the warrantee, and if something really goes wrong, you may end up with both civil and criminal...

It's just not something you would normally need to change. Maybe you will be able to change it on the dash.

This is supposed to be for the 2025 hybrid civic, when you click on towing a trailer, you get to a page that says it's not designed to tow. https://techinfo.honda.com/rjanisis/pubs/OM/AH/AT502525IOM/enu/details/131272047-11005.html

There may be legal requirements for them to submit the registration of a new car sale, along with charging the proper state and local taxes. My hope would be Slate keeps the fee for doing that to a minimum, especially since WE will be filling out the "paperwork" online. States probably don't...

Even if it's set in the app, those settings aren't something you should have to change much. You could set it up to charge only to 80% and only during certain hours, and just leave it. Only changing the settings when you are going on a road trip or something. Then set it for 100% Other than...

Since it keeps getting repeated that a civic tows 1000 lbs, I tried looking it up, the first manual I found says that particular model is not designed for towing. haven't figured out finding which recent civic models are tow rated for the US.

Not going to spend 45 minutes watching that video, looks like an RV trailer with solar? Tongue weight is usually supposed to be 10% of the trailer weight afaik, so should only be 100 lbs on anything the Slate tows, putting 750 on the hitch would probably bottom out the rear. Even assuming that...

Plenty of stories out there about people getting a new truck, taking it and getting a load of dirt or gravel, and figuring out that's way past the weight capacity. A month or so ago driving to work I was behind a pickup that was going slow, when I got to a turn lane and got beside it, it had a...

It's been mentioned in several places that there are changes not seen on the prototypes that have been to the events.

My car has a load capacity in the 900 lb range, of course it's already built for 5ish people, and has a (compact) spare tire. Even 4 of those 200 lb average people are pushing close to the limit with the trunk empty. Figure on at least part of the people in it to be smaller, maybe kids or teens...

According to the California DMV part of the fee is based on: The unladen or declared gross vehicle weight (GVW) and the number of axles your vehicle may have. They also have a fee calculator, For pickups, you have to choose commercial. Checking, and for under 10k lbs you choose the unladen...

Yeah, actual cost to the dealer that is covered by "doc fees" should be way down in the computer age, They used to have to fill out the paperwork by hand or on a typewriter, with carbon copies, and physically deliver a copy to the state, etc. Now it's all going to be automatically copied over...