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That does sound better than a Halloween night car show in a small park. Still a 3-4 hour round trip for me depending on traffic though. Don't know that I want to invest that much time to get a chance to see a prototype/mockup of the truck, unless I had another reason to go most of that way. LA...

I think part of the problem with cold weather estimates is it can vary a lot. Vehicle stored in relatively warm garage, and precondition battery and passenger compartment before unplugging, you will go a lot farther than if parked on the street or a driveway in sub-freezing weather and start...

I haven't even seen a photo posted from there. Sounds like it was even worse than I feared. There was no mention of a low rider show in the event details. I'd have been coming from even farther away, probably twice as far as either of you. They need to be sure there is access, available parking...

On repairing the motor-drive unit or battery, that probably won't be happening. If one fails, it will probably just be a swap, at least within the warrantee period. Any shop that does EV powertrain work should be able to do that quickly. Maybe after that people will start working on the...

Almost everything should be relatively easy to DIY. On repairs and maintenance, the same except the battery and motor. All those things should be relatively cheap at a shop once the standardized labor rates go out. Battery or motor are going to be in the same category as if you blow up an engine...

Hmm, yeah you are right. I'd seen stuff about asking for an RV outlet to be installed instead of an EV outlet because of electricians up charging for EV, but that must have been about 50 amp outlets.

Exactly. There is a lot of 3rd party and self upselling going on with range. Manufacturers build considerations like that 80/20 and just what type of cells they are using into their charge controllers and range estimates. Just as cell phone manufacturers are more recently limiting max charge and...

It should be possible, but you've got to research chargers. You need to be able to set the charger to allow charging at no more than 24 amps, and the ones where that was possible I looked at needed to be hard wired, which is apparently a permit and electrician job. If you do go that route, it's...

The 150 estimate is combined, and it isn't finalized. As long as slate has done their work in aerodynamics, the truck config shouldn't be terrible. a lot of the ever more stylized swept looks are chasing smaller and smaller percentages.

On the batteries, they already have a contract, so it's doubtful they were pressuring for a renegotiation, or that it would be a bad sign of where they are with design. Mentioning it publicly, they could easily be farther with it than they let on, or it could be for more production capacity, and...

It may have at least part of the cameras needed, because pedestrian detection and automatic emergency braking are listed in the safety features. They will be required on all new vehicles in 4 years.

It's been stated a couple of times that in what we are seeing, the rear window wasn't finalized.

Yeah, but there's a whole range of V2L classes possible, 12v out and multiple USB outs may be standard, an inverter for AC out for tools and appliances etc seems likely even if it's an add on, but I'd expect limited amps/watts otherwise you may drain the battery too fast to make sense as a use...

They already have running boards shown on the maker, though some have commented that they may not be necessary even at standard height, and I'm not sure the couple of inches from the lowering kit will make much difference, the truck just isn't that high to start. Hand holds, grab straps seem...

I have to expect that once they have the line put together, and are (relatively slowly) putting together final build worthy units at even a couple a day, they will start quickly ramping up the tours, getting to a lot more cities and getting us those test drives.

Outside of powertrain work, you wouldn't be touching anything that wouldn't be on an ICE vehicle, so most "Normal maintenance and upgrades" just about any shop should be able to do. Would you expect any random shop you pick to be able to rebuild your engine or transmission in house? At this...

That I believe should be coming some time early next year. As of right now they probably don't know what the prices on many accessories will be, and probably don't have half of them even in the maker yet.

That repairpal site does let you filter by vehicle type, and repair type. Hopefully before Slate launches it will be updated with which shops are ready for it. If a shop refuses to work on an EV because of "weight" they could easily look at the sticker inside the door and read the weight, and...

My understanding is that the Maverick price went up anyway though right?

There are only a limited number of fasteners visible, and of those on the body panels, it looks like the panels extend under or wrap to locations where there will be more fasteners that can't be accessed without opening doors, frunk, or tailgate. So maybe someone can steal some fasteners, but...