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Good to know. Seems more secure than just having the fob in your pocket.

Who knew de-centralized electron storage was even a thing? Thanks for posting.

If so, that's arbitrary and deliberate. Preconditioning could be initialized any way Slate wants it to be. Button on the remote. Flash the high beams while parked. Spell S-L-A-T-E in Morse code on the break pedal. Anything. It's programmable. An event happens and preconditioning starts...

Museum Delivery Experience. Details in another post.

T100 was a different beast entirely. Toyota's original small pickup was called the Stout in the 1960s. Hilux (global name) was '68-'95 between the Stout and Tacoma. Sold as Hilux originally in 1968. Sold as Truck from 1973 to 1976. Then it was Pickup for almost two decades until 1995.

For construction it depends on the trade. Framers, Painters, Electricians, Plumbers, Roofers, Landscapers, etc. all have different needs. An Extended Cab version would make a better work truck because you can put your tools behind the seat and still have the full bed to work with.

Slate Auto is the company name. Slate Truck is the vehicle name.

The Slate App will have infotainment features? From the Rich Rebuilds video: And it'll help you find charging stations, like you can plan your route and it'll say, "Oh, you 5:42 need to charge here for this long and charge here for this long." And it'll do all that sort of stuff as...

Four notes! I didn't know you could get that many notes. 😄 My purpose for upgrading horns is a practical one. People are driving around with the windows up, air conditioning on, and radio playing. That, or even worse they're wearing earbuds.. or using their smartphone. Distracted driving is...

Hear, hear. 📣 My interest in the truck is despite the online marketing , not because of it.

Defense against that is a Faraday Box or a Faraday Fob Pouch.

[No intent to hijack the thread. Just a clarification..] My point about JMK might have been a little obtuse. Keynes promoted government stimulus specifically during an economic downturn, and is famous for that. He never said the stimulus should be a permanent fixture. What has become known as...

There are petroleum subsidies and there are are petroleum taxes. A self-licking ice cream cone? Somewhere in there there's a Transfer of Wealth that involves lobbyists. Meanwhile Slate sidesteps all of that and stands a good chance of surviving on its own merits.

Extremely reliable. The RFID part of a key fob is passive (no battery required) and its ID is unique (tied to the specific vehicle). The power comes from the radio signal provided by the RFID reader. There are encryption and anti-cloning features. I would prefer a metal key.

Subsidies are analogous to Starter Fluid for an internal combustion engine. Good to get it started, but not a good fuel for running it once it's going. I'm pretty sure even John Maynard Keynes himself would acknowledge this.

See Cross Elasticity of Demand, where the demand for something increases when the price of a substitute increases. For example if the price of tea increases, the demand for coffee will be affected because coffee and tea are, to some extent, substitute goods.

Oh that. I considered that part meeting them halfway. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ The Elephant In The Room is that the marketing is Low-T. It matches the Low-T Meep Meep Horn. I'd prefer something more substantive and informative. I'm not shopping for a lifestyle because I already have one of those. I want...

So am I.

Good idea. Maybe the energy from a solar tonneau could somehow be used to run the battery's cooling system.

Hmmm... Needs to be something that will fit into the attention span of a firefly. How about this, titled "You Can Fit a Big Block in a Slate Truck" Show some dudes at the speed shop using a forklift to put a shiny V8 into the bed of a Slate Truck and strapping it down. Let this back seat guy...