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Does advice like this depend on battery chemistry? I think it may. The Slate truck will have nickel-manganese-cobalt (NMC) cells.

Somehow I have the impression that the Extended Battery option adds 300 pounds. Do we know how much weight it adds?

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The $4,000 is a speculative estimate for the upgrade price.

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This. Much preference for the windows to roll all the way down.

"Just top it off" is almost certainly your answer. NMC batteries are made for frequent partial charging. They don't have Memory Effect properties. Consider this: Regenerative Braking does a lot of micro-charging. I don't think regen is harmful to the battery.

Good point. 100% certain it's something (because physics), but possibly negligible. There are other tradeoffs. Lower payload capacity, obviously. Acceleration, braking and handling are affected, also because physics.

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From a cost-of-ownership perspective the price is more than what you pay up front. Hauling around an extra few hundred pounds of batteries everywhere you go requires some extra energy per mile.

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To extend or not to extend? Good question! Especially considering the Extended Battery can't be retrofitted. Your Range May Vary. In fact it certainly will vary, so one question is "by how much"? What differences does the Extended Battery bring with it? Some of them might not be obvious...

What's your hypothesis regarding why no new small pickups exist?

Thanks for posting, @jwocky. These always are fun. Especially when people notice things that are easy to miss, which seems to happen every time. :) I see a fuse access panel I've never noticed before. Also the wheels are the original non-vented type. The spoiler is missing. Have all of the...

Saw an article I had missed in Slate's listing of articles. Does this Car & Driver article remove any remaining doubts?

If the projected price was (just under) $17,500 after incentives they would have said that. Instead, Slate published on their website headlines with the $20,000 price.

Here's a bullet point from an article about the skunkworks that's linked from that article: Ford will bolster future Model e EV business unit profits by selling more aftermarket software and services to customers. Yikes. Let's hope Slate Auto doesn't go anywhere near this route for bolstering...

It's what any random article said. Because that's what writers were told. By Slate representatives. See also Slate's website. Edit: Mobile version