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Jeff Bezos knows a thing or two about penetration pricing. Contrary to the impression you get from articles I've seen, I don't think Bezos has much involvement with Slate Auto aside from providing some Series A funding.

In retrospect I neglected to include the key fob remote. The remote should have a precondition button that gets the cabin and batteries to an appropriate temperature for departure.

I've been of the mindset that Slate Auto's main big accomplishment will be to build an economical, dependable, and adaptable vehicle. Now I'm starting to realize their main big accomplishment will be to build an economical, dependable, and adaptable factory.

For clarification, my Sour Grapes posts are not meant to disparage people who see an economic incentive and take advantage of it. I'm just pointing out that those incentives have other consequences most people wouldn't ever consider, including saddling future generations with extra federal debt...

POSIWID is pernicious. Here's an example: Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) Standards. CAFE Standards have resulted in bigger and bigger vehicles, pickups and SUVs in particular. Wrap your head around that for a minute. Fuel Economy standards caused the complete elimination of lightweight...

The extremely rich person I thought would come to mind reaped benefits from selling the EVs, not buying them.

The sword has a double edge. Can you think of any Extremely Rich persons who've benefited tremendously from EV tax credits? It boils down to POSIWID - The Purpose Of a System Is What It Does, which is not necessarily what it was intended to do when conceived.

I would be surprised if there isn't a power wire at minimum. Cars are mandated to have a camera in the back. It's only a matter of time before a forward-facing camera is also required. For the good of the children, of course. ;)

It's easy to convince people to buy things with Other People's Money. Here's another potential moral hazard to consider: EV ownership skews toward higher-income demographics, so the EV credit is a Tax Cut For The Rich, at least to some extent.

Precisely that, yes. Requires the "Hardwiring Cable to hardwire your dash cam to fuse box for parking surveillance mode"

Gotcha. 👍 I bought a dash cam in 2003 that has Parking Surveillance mode. I don't know how common that feature is, but it's available.

From the transcript... and and then a lot of people are concerned about um you know the theft of body 37:07 panels and others. So we've made sure that uh there are fasteners that are a little bit more difficult to get to uh 37:13 that only the customer will be able to get to uh that...

Two words. And a link. 😃 I interpreted what you wrote to mean Slate should be designing-in Sentinel Mode. That belies the "as simple as possible but not simpler" ethos that brings us roll-up windows and paintless body panels. I could have written "excessive ongoing expansion or addition of new...

Feature Creep

Reminds me of when they first introduced Kryptonite u-locks. There was lots of fanfare about the robust security, including the unusual circular key. Someone figured out you could open them by cramming a Bic pen body into the circular keyway. 🤦‍♂️

The secret to getting a good wrap is to play Wrap Music during the installation.

In this AZFox And The Grapes story the sour grapes are the fact that the rebate is a moral hazard because it saddles future generations with extra federal debt.

I was surprised not to find a ruggedized CarPlay / Android Auto screen. Virtually everyone would leave that in the car, wouldn't they?

Much appreciated. That helped me find other rugged Android tablets, but none that claim to handle extreme heat. (One claimed to handle extreme cold.) I'm above-average at finding suitable technical products because that has been my profession. So far, nothing. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Lucky you. That would be beyond wishful thinking here in the Desert Southwest. Right now it's 133°F in my car... and that's with the windows cracked and a light breeze blowing.