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The seat would have to have the side airbags Outside of ebay, I am seeing the most basic F150 front seats, cloth, manual, used, from a 50k mile truck, going for $1269 for the pair. I haven't found where Ford would list complete seats, I am seeing cushion covers for around $500 each, back frames...

What I'm saying, probably a large majority have no interest in a bench. Of the minority who say they have interest, even at highly scaled up production, it's going to cost probably $500-1000 at a minimum, more likely 1000-2000, assuming the development and testing costs were already paid off.

It's the safety testing that is the issue. Front seats have airbags built into them on modern cars, so for Slate to offer a bench front seat, they would have to design a whole new seat with airbags in it, and do all the required crash testing that involves those airbags with that configuration...

I haven't looked at automotive cell phone boosters in a while, good ones do extend range, but they run $300-500 from what I can see, and the whole market and brands have changed since my knowledge of them. The phone will need to be in the cradle that comes with the booster for it to work...

"Boosters" work where the signal is marginal, at the edge of service. Particularly they work where signal doesn't get to the phone inside the car, but you could step outside for a minute and get some level of service. All this does not apply to those cheap "booster" stickers that were sold to...

The possibility I am looking at is that most of the rear legroom in the SUV is already in the truck cab, behind the front seats. That could be the reason for the silence from Slate about using the dead space in the pickup configuration, if there really isn't much dead space at all. From looking...

What I want to see is a good shot of the inside of the cab behind the front seat as a truck, and compare that to the same area as an SUV. If that rectangular panel with 2 screws visible only hides the bolt down points for the seat, and the "footwell" is only that maybe 2 inches covered by the...

Yeah, that's why I'm not currently running a dash cam. My last one melted, in Spring, and I haven't found any that mention what temperature they melt at.

When there used to be a store in every town that had that kind of thing, it was easy to go in and compare antennas. I know there are CB and shortwave whip antennas made for no ground plane, that adhered to the glass, with a matching piece with the antenna cable that adhered to the inside of the...

Looking at how far back the seat went in the recent video showing 3 different people sitting in it, the 6-5 guy had the whole seatback hidden behind the door frame. If the vertical line in this screenshot is the doorframe, then the seat would go back almost to the back seat, leading to the ~2...

But I haven't seen a comparable shot of the truck form to try to figure out where the wall between truck cab and bed would lie. If it lines up with that middle bump, the whole thread is moot, there's not enough space to worry about for like 2 inches.

Until we see some more info, it's hard to tell what will be possible. When there is a video or photos of doing the SUV conversion, that will probably be enough. We don't even know what size or shape the space under that cover is. If we can use the space, I see 2 possibilities: 1. Access from...

This is true, and the whole reason sodium based batteries are even being developed. I'm sure in 5 or so years, lower range vehicles will be switching to them. It just takes time to get to the efficiencies of scale to actually take advantage of the raw material cost. For those thinking Sodium...

Yes radio is becoming obsolete. in the past few weeks probably the strongest local station, on FM, and serving an area with ~500k people, moved frequencies, also moved transmission locations, and where the majority of those people live, the station now is weaker and has static. No word on the...

Looks like Ford beds can be 37 inches or more from the ground to the bed without any lift. Rough measurement of a photo is giving around 30 inches for the Slate. Those tailgate steps on Ford trucks apparently are at ~20-22 inches? An aftermarket step certainly could be an option, and would make...

1. That door pull is the same part as the center console options. Identical part used for both doors and for optional console top. 2. The maker shows several bluetooth speaker options. Below the HVAC knobs is one, there is also center speaker, 2 side speakers (speaker pair), all basically in the...

That still hypothetical Ford truck, that so far as we know is still just a platform and a vague plan, will highly likely have a lot more pounds/kilograms of battery than something like the Slate. Those CATL Sodium batteries are claiming to be on a par with LFP, but it's not something that has...

A bigger pack takes more space and weighs more. Potentially Sodium will become cheaper than lithium batteries, but they aren't there yet, and it's not even theoretically going to get more energy dense. The lower energy density is the reason there is less fire hazard after all, energy = energy...

Sodium batteries may be in the future, but that's still where they are, the future. Also charge density is lower, so you start with an even lower base range. Where NMC gets 240-350 wh/kg, and LFP 140-190 these new CATL Sodium apparently get 200, lose 10% and you are down to 180. A lot of that...

Most modern cars look similar because the manufacturers are nearly all working towards a min-max solution on aerodynamics and capacity. Need for MPG or eMPG ratings when "style" means you drop a few points means most are dropping the style instead.