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Ah that makes sense. Being LFP it's safe to charge to 100% regularly, unlike NMC, right? So it may actually represent a slightly higher usable range.

Surprises Disappointments 205 mile range No extended range Base price Base price Delivery window (Q2) Solar tonneau cover

I went from 100% going to preorder today to not even sure if I'm ordering one anymore without an extended range. 240 barely fit my needs, but I could make it work. 205 isn't going to work for me.

If it's less energy dense it wouldn't achieve more range. I doubt they switched to LFP to achieve this.

Similar in Georgia. All BEVs and any plug in hybrids that get the alternative fuel plate are subject to additional tax to replace the gas tax. Annoyingly, the tax is more than what I’ve actually paid in federal and state gas taxes combined in the last year, even ignoring that Georgia suspended...

USB-C is a lot more versatile, is on most consumer electronics released within the last decade and on all consumer electronics released within the last couple of years. If you really need it, Apple makes a cable that goes directly from USB-C to 3.5mm

Plastidip gets real hard to remove. It lasts much less time than vinyl, and it suffers a lot from the sun. Getting some off that was ~1.5 years old and applied by a previous owner was miserable. Took two large bottles of the removal solution from dip your car and a pressure washer. Still took me...

I’m looking at most likely using an iPad mini with a cellular connection. Larger than my phone, but not so large as to be obtrusive. Will get software updates and the like, and can be easily upgraded if I decide I need a larger screen or it no longer does what I need.

I had called out from work because I was sick that day. Opened up a number of streaming apps and then YouTube trying to find something to watch and the algorithm served me content about the Slate. I had toyed with the idea of buying an EV but wasn’t sold prior to seeing the Slate. Did more...

Quite the opposite experience here. I’ve had the TPMs alert me that a tire was low before I felt anything while driving down the freeway a few years ago. I thought it might have messed up and drove a few more minutes and then started feeling it get a little soft and pulled over to check and...

There's a number of things that go into what makes a tire good for EVs. I know that Continental, for example, doesn't market any tires as being for EVs, but instead says the following on their website: "All Continental tires are designed for usage on both Internal Combustion Engine (ICE)...

I wish there were more EV specific tires in the 16-17” sizes. Unfortunately it seems that they’re mostly in the 18-20” range. Hopefully the stock Kenda’s feel good, have low rolling resistance, and aren’t too loud. Tire/road noise is very apparent in an EV because there isn’t an engine that...

I’ve been pretty vocal about this in other threads, but I’ll say it again here. They need to surprise everyone by having the base slate be on the low end of “mid 20s” so that with any of the add-ons like the extended battery, SUV kits, cargo kit, etc it’s still a good deal. If they come out...

At least for the mobile wallet car keys like Apple CarKey I think they need to from the OEM. Even if it was an additional add-on I could buy after the fact or down the road and add it then, I’d be happy with that.

i figure I’ll be able to test drive it on the way back to my house from wherever they let me pick it up.

I heard on the Engineering Explained channel during a video about EV tires that on an ICEV the drivetrain makes up ~50% of noise in the cabin but less than 15% in an EV, which is why the road noise feels so loud in an EV even though it’s overall quieter.

I reached out in January and suggested adding support for Apple’s CarKey standard. I went as far as sending them a link to the spec sheet. As I understand it it doesn’t require adding anything like cellular, and would greatly improve functionality. Day to day I only carry my phone and a little 3...

Wireless charging in a lot of scenarios is great. A car really isn’t one of them. Current MagSafe and Qi2 charging can do like 25W of charging but that requires a phone that can handle it, a charger that can handle it, and cooling to sustain it because it generates a lot of heat. I have a great...

The thing previously holding me back on getting a truck is that I want a single cab but it would be a primary vehicle and I need to throw groceries and the like some place other than the bed. A frunk easily solves that complaint for me. I just dislike the look of crew cabs on a truck, and I...

In the “Quick Update On Price” video, Chris says “We’ve been working tirelessly to get the lowest price possible.” And then later confirms the blank Slate will be in the mid 20s. Given the loss of the federal EV tax incentive, and that the batteries they chose are made in the USA in order to...