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They seem like they would be the perfect drivetrain for EV swapping something else, haha

Something I haven't seen discussed here that could be dealbreaker for me is insurance cost. Even if the total cost and financing works for me, if the insurance is crazy due to it being a new company it would be a problem. I use progressive, and I was just trying to see if they would quote it...

https://www.amazon.com/Modular-Battery-Swap-Everybody-Electric/dp/1956503773

The logistics of starting to implement it here would be a nightmare. I honestly think it's too late. But the advantages are massive if you consider that a swap station could be 100% offgrid and/or do grid stabilization. Batteries can be charged directly from solar, or off-peak, or whatever...

Framing it as "sharing" would be sure to kill the idea here, haha. But framed as being able to switch from ICE to EV without changing your habits could make it popular, along with not having to own the least reliable part of an EV. I agree that the latest fast charging tech mostly makes this...

There was a company called Ample in the US that was working on Modular Battery Swapping. It used multiple smaller modules, so you could get different capacities and fit different vehicles all with different quantities of the same basic modules. They were testing with modified 500e's, but I...

I love the idea of battery swapping. NIO has been doing it in China and now Europe for years (I think I heard they're at 100 million swaps now). Their current system takes 3-5 minutes to swap. There's a lot to like about the concept of battery swapping, especially in these early days of...

The weight matters very little. All about the aero.

I'm gonna make it look like this.

I break things with zero moving parts all the time.

Schrodinger's Slate. It both is and isn't reliable until they actually sell a vehicle and we find out.

1: preach 2: oh hey, a new video talking about the exact thing I was saying

Right now it's 100% just optimism based on claims from Slate. They could end up pulling a Fiskar. The thing is, I see what existing automakers are putting out, and I'm not interested. I'm here because *maybe Slate will be different* . If they end up producing trash like everyone else, I'm gone.

When you understand the concept of Embodied Energy, you have a hard time un-seeing it. Planned obsolescence in a phone is annoying, planned obsolescence in a car should be a crime. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embodied_energy

The Slate is important to me because there are no modern passenger vehicles intended to be durable, repairable goods. The problem is worse among EVs. That design philosophy has disappeared, except for some commercial vehicles. So every time someone says "you could have X vehicle for that price"...

I'll ship you a used Chevy Bolt and a Sawzall for the ultimate DIY minitruck building experience for the low low price of $15,000.

It would be the second lightest EV on the market at that weight. (500e is just over 3000)

Point the middle vents between the front seats and tell the back seat passengers to suck it up.

I can't stop laughing at the idea of industrial machinery using the latest technology. Windows NT must still be the bleeding edge of technology.

You were supposed to split off and make your own "Bolts that don't tow" forum, per old internet rules.