Very fun. Bummer that the current administration is set to scrap the EV incentive though, along with the charging station investments started under the prior administration. Hope it isn’t fatal to Slate. We should be willing to invest in American manufacturing; that’s how BYD has eclipsed Tesler.
Check out this substack post from an innovation historian, Jason Voiovich…
https://innovationhistory.substack.com/p/there-once-was-a-truck-from-nantucket
If it’s electric I hope they enable user adjustment of the boost level. Overboosted power steering drives me crazy, especially when it’s not difficult to provide user adjustability.
Yes! Give me simple with the ability to add whatever I want. A few years ago I owned a Jeep Patriot with manual everything. Friends visited with young kids who were mesmerized by the crank windows saying, “Dad, why doesn’t our car have these“.
I’ll concede that 2-dr pickups are rare these days but I rarely see more than one or two people in any vehicle. And I chuckle when I see the huge 4-dr pickups unable to carry 4x8 sheet goods within their beds at the lumber yard. If you want a truck, buy a truck; if you want to haul people, buy...