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My absolute requirements for car selection have been: hatchback, stick, cruise control. I'm now on my third vehicle in 30 years, and I've probably reached the end of the line for reasonably affordable vehicles matching that selection space and available in the US. It's going to be a bit of an...

My uncle had a GMC Syclone for a while.

I lean very strongly toward being self-sufficient. I gutted my house to the studs and rebuilt it myself. I built my shop (30'x12', 10' walls) solo except for a group of friends on foundation pour day and one friend who also wanted to play on jackhammer day and standing up the first wall, and I...

But not this Coda: (If anyone's unfamiliar with Aging Wheels, there's a whole library of past videos on YouTube to delight you. 🤩)

I'm always torn between wanting this or this. 😅

So, no real need to keep up weekly artistically comedic updates now that everyone seems to have gotten a delivery window, but I figure I should at least have a coda... July found us all Next year should be a good year Now joined the waiting

Winter salt is a very real concern. Having the early Slate trucks become visibly salted with possibly adverse effects could make for a little bump in the early rollout. There's really only one reasonable thing to do: Send the first Slate trucks to Louisiana, where there won't be any road...

I hope it's not too much like the Domino's pizza tracker. Our local Domino's basically hits the button when it goes in the oven, and then that's the last update you get until it suddenly has been ready for pickup this whole time. Extra fun is their SMS-based order updates service. I get the...

Interesting. I was assigned Q3, and I do have the options all the way back to December 2026. (I still think it can't possibly be that easy, but at the same time, obviously, I picked December 2026, just in case.)

As someone in technology, I'm going to put in my two cents and say my money's on bad UI/UX. Having all the options doesn't mean that they have such a low number of preorders that they can let anyone who wants jump right to the front, even December. Having all the options means that the...

I've been doing a bit of early casual research, and so far my strongest conclusion is that United Chargers Inc., the makers of the Grizzl-E series, should be avoided like Broadcom if you like openness. They used to support OCPP, and then they threw it behind a $200 paywall... and then they...

My thoughts exactly, but I was looking for details that would unequivocally confirm that, and... bingo! The shadow of the charging door is impossible. The door itself may cast that shadow, but the door has to connect to the truck, and the door hinge casts no shadow. There are plenty of other...

At least one video I saw sometime in the last month expressly confirmed that the three were coolant, washer fluid, and brake fluid. Indeed, we all deduced it correctly.

A lithium ion jump pack will certainly be somewhere in my Slate, but not for me. I carry one so I can help others as necessary. I used to carry cables to give anyone a jump, but my cars have remained little hatchbacks while everyone around me seems to drive gargantuan SUVs and giant trucks...

Correct on all counts. As for Louisiana BBQ, if you find yourself in Baton Rouge, stop by Hannah Q. You can get some excellent BBQ, and they also have "BBQ Jambalaya", a Cajun (not Creole!) jambalaya made with all their BBQ meats. It's fantastic.

Oh, glory be! They went right to the wire, but they actually assigned delivery windows inside the 30 day limit. Delivery Window Jul - Sep 2027 That's actually a whole bank earlier than my previous uninformed guess. Suppose this means a bunch of upgrades to the Club DWCS Emeritus crew. 😎

Oh, I have no direct insight. I'm just going by the fact reservation time was supposed to matter and I was very early in the opening hours of reservations. Whatever queue I'm in, there can't be many people ahead of me if reservation order matters, as we were told it would. Of course, they also...

If you don't make the reservation preorder cutoff, you move to the end of your queue, but they have different queues for different areas. I may be in Club DWCS, Louisiana Chapter, but I'm right at the front of that queue whenever it eventually decides to move. If I didn't preorder, I would be...

Once a member, always a member. 😁 Wait! I just meant we're inclusive! Please, Slate, don't interpret that as "Leave them in the club permanently." 🤣

Hmm... the largest annual gathering of Geocaching will actually be coming to Baton Rouge (of all places) for Memorial Day weekend next year. Sure, it's not SXSW or Burning Man or whatever the rich people go to, but Slate really ought to make sure that they have a Slate truck there so they can...