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Wraps like this make me think that Slate should partner with sports teams for NFL and MLB themed wraps.

The thread title suckered me in. I got all excited thinking it was the T-Top removable roof option I so want. Doh!

Yea, you are correct on that. I thought the Slate was slower than it is. The released 0-60 specs on the Slate is 8 seconds with the single motor and small battery. That's in average SUV range. And as you say, BEV torque is always awesome . Compared by my 6 second Maverick it's a bit slow. But...

Actually I love it. Languages are supposed to grow and change to meet the needs of the people. It's all good!

No thanks, Organic Chemistry 1 and 2 at college was more than enough chemistry for me. I ran away as fast as I could to the humanities department for an English Literature degree. Which everyone told me was useless. But happily, it wasn't.

LFP production is coming online in the USA, as several factories are either in production, shortly starting production or headed to production. When the BEV credits vanished, they all announced pivots to grid storage. But the USA capacity for LFP and soon (in a few years) LMR (both Ford and GM)...

Anyone interested in the Ford announcement... This Thursday at 3 PM EST, Autoline After Hours on YouTube will be discussing it. Great program, with industry insiders. They're Slate fans too, so I'm sure Slate will be a co-topic of discussion. Also, if anyone is interested in the Telo truck...

CATL swears they're delivering a sodium battery this year that costs 1/10 what LFP costs. I'll believe it when I see it. But for sure, somebody (probably from China) is gonna deliver a market-destroying battery. We also have all the solid state guys - but even they are saying 2028-2030 to...

Me too. Old Ranger owner. I mean old as in last century - 4 cylinder, manual transmission, single cab. Crude vehicle, but cheap and functional. The Slate immediately made me think of that old Ranger. Also similar in performance terms (at least the single motor). I had to be a driver who thought...

Yea, 48V is hopefully on the way. Right now it's just a question of all the various motors in the vehicle having been designed for 12V. So either suppliers or OEMs have to pay for that work, and it has to be done at scale to be competitive (everything in the auto industry is about scale and...

The Telo folks are totally cool. Love their truck. Last time I checked, they had 10 employees, but two rolling prototypes. I'm hoping they're successful, because the Telo truck is awesome in its own way. I think Telo will make it. They're targeting contract manufacturing in low volumes. I'm...

That's not the castings. That's just Tesla being Tesla (we're too cool for school, so why should we change). A casting is just a structural platform part. And the dies are swapped out regularly, as they wear out. One casting machine can make many different castings for several different models...

It actually is revolutionary - for Ford. If you watched the video, they're introducing a completely new production line concept - similar to a binary tree in reverse. It takes manufacturing cost and time out of the vehicle while maintaining content (whereas Slate is taking cost out of the...

Even some OEMs have "acquisition fees". So the carmakers are sneaking in extra profit. And delivery costs have tripled in the last decade. Most dealerships these days sneak in multiple BS fees. There was an act in Congress to stop this, but the NADA lobbied (AKA threatened and bribed) to get it...

Good question. No OEM in the USA does this that I know or. Tesla had a typical Elon huckster clown show going where they had a car deliver itself to a single customer (in Austin I think). My car, Volvo, used to have a European factory delivery option. In fact, they'd fly you to Europe free, and...

The next decade is gonna be so cool for BEV fanboys and fangirls. A multitude of battery chemistries are already on the road being tested by OEMs. A multitude of smarter and more efficient batteries. Scale to bring down costs. Better charging. It's all good. But the best part of the 2030s is...

On the wiring harness... I'd love to see 48V, but you can do a smaller harness at 12V. They key improvement in the wiring harness is not the voltage, but the controller architecture. They're doing the Rivian and Tesla thing and going to zonal architectures. That means instead of 60 domain...

C'mon Slate. Come visit Asheville!

For those who didn't want the reveal - here is basically what Ford said. No opinion, just the facts as I remember them. A truck between the Ranger and Maverick in size. CY 2027 delivery - not specified when in the CY $30,000 for the base trim. "Long range". Painted. High tech and screens...

There's also the question of bandwidth and human resources to consider. Human beings actually have to sleep. A company a small fraction the size of a major OEM is trying to deliver a vehicle from scratch. I'm guessing the Slate employees are spending every waking minute of every day just trying...