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@Imhotep, Thats the one! Now that I look again, i guess the front fender is two pieces at the coach line. It tucks up under the hood that hooks over the top. I assume the rear wheel and bed rail is one piece like the door.

Any company currently making body kits or ground effect kits for the tuner scene would be able to produce kits for the Slate, I would imagine. Just tap into the existing mounting points and you're good to go. It's worth noting that the horizontal coach line down the middle isn't a seam between...

The panels are pretty flat, without a lot of compound curves. You might even be able to do a real wood veneer, and not just a fake wood sticker.

Blank Slate. Standard battery. Maybe a wrap, but i'd actually like to install myself so that might come later.

They're Michigan plates, and the M in the center denotes them as manufacturer plates. These are issued to Slate and they can move them from car to car as long as Slate keeps detailed records of which car they're on and when. if you like legal docs, here you go.

That is kind of a drag. I'm looking forward to the day this forum switches from fan-club to owners-club.

I think a 1990 VW Scirocco has the right style lines for a Slate coupe.

The gloss wraps I've seen all have a weird plasti-dip look to them. Not sure why that is, maybe they were just lower quality material. You don't get the same deep luster you get with paint and a gloss coat. Matte, satin, pearl, or flake paint is usually more of a premium thing, and they're...

oh, cool. So you can *be* drunk, just don't *look* drunk for the camera. Damn me and my resting-drunk-face. Just like all those new UK age verification systems that are AI driven to make sure a person "looks old enough" to play online videogames, irregardless of their actual age. It's safety...

I hope Slate can do some proactive outreach with the common insurers. Show them the benefits of the design in keeping repair costs down, and almost eliminating insurance claims for a lot of common dents and scrapes. That would certainly help their customers with the total cost of ownership.

This is quickly going to get political, so I'm trying really hard here. But the things that are legal today can easily become illegal tomorrow. Some people today, depending on skin color, cannot go to a peaceful protest. An activity that's constitutionally protected for every person (not just...

The pervasive encroachment on our privacy is something I'm really concerned with, if that wasn't obvious from other threads already. I'll just touch on backup cameras for the moment. Backup cam for my personal use in the vehicle: fantastic safety device. That video being stored in the car and...

Ding ding ding! This is the fun logistics issue I'm looking forward to seeing the solution to. Presumably you won't get the 20s on the truck and the full set of 17s thrown in the bed. But maybe you will?! Everything so far has been talked about in terms of "add on" and not "replacement." So...

This all sounds wonderful in theory, cars talking to other cars so they all can make better predictions about how to react to the situation. That is a ton of telemetry data though, and there's not a company on earth that I would trust not to find "alternative and lucrative" uses for that...

Barman said "double din" in this interview. But this was back in May and we're still in the pre-production phase so who knows what's changing, and what's just an occasional misspeak.

There's U 1FAAB for a drained battery, which would be funny for an old EV. 🪫

Not really odd, they've started in the northwest & northeast and are working their way down and around. They'll get to the southern states soon enough, and it'll be when the weather is much nicer for outdoor events. By then it'll be rain/snow in the north anyway.

The plate I want is really esoteric. People probably won't even recognize it as a custom plate: U 1F50B It's the Unicode codepoint for the full battery symbol. In regards of the original intent of the thread, In Washington, every car I've bought new came with paper tags and the dealer...

I still have a reservation on the Scout Terra. It's a LOT of truck, more than I need, and probably 3x the price of the Slate. But it is pretty. I'd continue to watch the development on that if the Slate doesn't pan out, but I'm not super excited about it like I am the slate. Not sure if I would...

Done! Now we wait for Slate to make their official partnership announcement!