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Accessories and replacement parts. I’m guessing the profit margin is higher on accessories than vehicles. How impactful, who knows. Also, you’re maths not mathing here. Let’s say the profit per Slate is $3500, which puts them about in-line with Ford and GM. It would take 2 2/3 years at full...

I am positive the visually impaired will disagree with the premise that the sound is not needed.

No idea what sound Slate uses. The sounds are necessary, though, for safety. Especially in big cities where you have people with visual impairment who rely on hearing cars at cross walks for safety. EVs can be so quiet they would have no chance otherwise. I believe all EV’s have to have a sound...

Wildly speculative without actual specs. One of the most common sizes is 5 x 114.3 (5 x 4.5). One could surmise since Slate prefers off-the-shelf, a more common size is what they chose. However, I wouldn’t go buying wheels until specs are released.

I like the locking while driving. I do not like the walk away locking. I see the appeal, it just doesn’t work for me. Anyway, my preferences matter not. I don’t think the added complication of having low frequency sensors to detect the closeness of the key, and the extra compute power to...

I think that is part of their advantage, too. People don’t like change, and familiar is comforting. Psychological win.

I don't know how accurate this site is, https://tinytrucktracker.com/trucks/slate/, they do note that the body shop line is 100% complete, and they are working on trim lines. Since there is only one trim, that will be much easier to setup than the multi-trims of other manufactures. In that case...

Most people outside of us sycophants here in this forum say that no one wants to buy a single cab truck with nothing in it for that much money. I ask them, show me another single cab truck in this price range? They can't find one. It seems a lot of people do not get the appeal of simplicity.

I noticed that too. I just figured they were adjusting the model for the larger tires.

Cars painted with this Black 4.0 paint is mind bending.

Look at the bright side, less electronics invading the dashboard, and other behind the scenes BS like wifi and 4/5G connectivity and such, means less chip usage. Less CPU and memory needs. Those prices, at least, won't increase the cost. Friggn' $600 to get two more sticks of 16GB ddr5 for my...

Oh, 100% agree with you. Our up-coming new driver will get the hand-me-down, I'll get the new EV (or hybrid, depending on how things shake down).

Monster! What kind of person can wait that long!

I assume they'll be closer to 35-40% conversion rate, to be honest. I have nothing but feels to back that up. Don't quote me.

My $50 reservation was only a few weeks back, presumably > 160,000th. I received the email too. Clearly they are banking on a lot of people falling off, because there is no way they are delivering 160,000+ vehicles in year one. This is interesting. ... Where's my popcorn?

I thought all the various connectors for EV charging were not simply electricity transfer, and all of them had data connections as well so the car's system "talks" to the charging system. If that's true, why would this system need the addition of an OBDII BT connection as well?

Read the EULA when all there stuff when the app goes live. You can determine how invasive that it will be. Fact is, the batteries and charging systems are complex and require software management. Sure, they could default to only allowing 80% charging, and face potentially losing a lot of people...

Says the guy who tries to turn every single thread into how much smarter he is than ... *gestures generally out to forum participants*

https://www.slate.auto/en/cold-test They go decently deep into icy water in that video. It may not be launching a boat deep, though I don't think it makes sense just to throw this out. You can even see they went deep enough for that slush, water, and ice to build up around the wiring harness...

I am so happy for you that you found a place to feed your self-perception of superiority.