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The truck is still a year from first delivery. That would be an incredibly long time in advance to expect ground clearance, fluid capacities, wiring details, etc. Actually, fluid capacities... which fluids? Windshield washer, yes Coolant is likely to be realistically like 10 year+ life, it isn't...

I wouldn't worry about details like visible wires in any photos or videos yet, these are prototypes, likely without a finalized wiring harness. They may have by now finalized the design, but you won't see it on these trucks that were hand built 6 months or more ago.

Pretty much none of these videos are going to have anything we don't already know. The only ones that might are the ones where there is a new interview with someone at slate. Slate just isn't giving out new inside info to these content creators. Info might be new to people new to slate, who...

So far answers from slate are that it will come with only a 120 v charger. Someone should ask for clarification, showing this page with the conflicting information. If it is only a 120v charger, they need to search their pages in depth to correct. One big issue is an "appliance outlet" is...

Yes it is, it will be required in all new vehicles starting in 2029. Probably knowing that, Slate is building it in now, rather than have to re-engineer just 2 years in. If you insist on a vehicle without it, you are looking at used for the rest of your life.

No one with those details is posting here, if they are even finalized. It's just going to take some patience, probably in a few months they will start dumping more detailed specs, along with all the pricing on accessories etc.

Sure 40 years ago when they started working on it, but they continued at least into the 90s, when yes ceramic parts were being made for airplane engines, it's not impossible, but it's expensive, and they never found a way scale it up to making hundreds of thousands of engines and bring down the...

Towing capacity used to be whatever the manufacturer said it was, now there are actual tests to perform so one vehicle's capacity can be compared to another and it actually means something. Part of it is a vehicle has to be able to tow the specced load up a certain grade in Arizona on a hot day...

My understanding is that it isn't just the driveline shocks, which could be cushioned, but difficulties in manufacturing large parts, at mass production scales. Something like a toilet is ceramic and possibly even bigger, but doesn't have tight tolerances. there can be a quarter inch variance...

I expect we will be closer to an answer before 18 months. The plan is to start delivering vehicles late next year, so I expect they will be converting reservations to orders at a minimum a few months before, and at that point we will be seeing directly or indirectly what kind of conversion rate...

Looks like development on those went on into the early 90s, but no one ever overcame the manufacturing issues. Ceramic is brittle and stiff, so hard to make large parts to tight tolerances, and make in volume.

Yeah, even with electronic parking brakes, there should be a sequency of actions to do that retracts the calipers, without any special tools and subscription. Not only paywalling it, but revoking the license because you aren't a service center is going way too far. Like class action far.

While Thailand might be a market, I think it would be more likely they would just in a few years if successful, and the market is there for it, build them there for the asian market, or contract/license for a company there to do it. Though if successful and there is demand there it's likely a...

It wasn't really an informational video, just a quick social media response to a comment. The tie down locations none of us know yet, the prototypes shown in these videos and at events may not have them, at least the final version of them anyway. That's something I feel like can wait to be...

Yeah, that sounds difficult. Assuming the dirt road is well graded so that won't be an issue, it would probably be easiest to just put in some solar and storage batteries at the cabin and set up so you can charge there, probably at level 1, along with getting the extended battery on the slate.

I think some of the options shown in the maker are preliminary. By launch there will be more options and variations on some of the parts shown now, particularly on the interior. For example currently for console there is none, black or brown, and there's no reason they wouldn't add colors, and...

The thing is streets were originally for both pedestrians and vehicles, the later citations for crossing where there isn't a crosswalk, "Jaywalking" were supposed to only be when there wasn't a marked crosswalk or intersection within a certain distance, and they were often selectively enforced...

It is meant more as a city truck, so the usefulness depends on what you mean by "backwoods" There are portable/mobile EV chargers, meant to charge a dead EV, both battery powered and gas powered, but I haven't researched them

That is all probably coming, in a few months. It was a very short video, that basically showed the no prep alternate way to load strong 4x8 sheets. In some cases with these social media videos, shorter is better, and gets more eyes on it.

At the point hoods have reached, pedestrians can't be a reason, they have reached a point where the driver might need a grill camera to see a pedestrian in the crosswalk the truck is stopped at. I think I miscalculated the tailgate heights, 2 feet seems to be the low end now, some seem to be...