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  1. Another fun commercial: "We’re bringing back crank windows. Get ready to get strong."

    I definitely want speakers so I can hear the navigation (from the phone) when I’m driving somewhere unfamiliar. My first car had that, it was a way way lighter car then sʟᴀᴛᴇ, or even just the battery pack on the sʟᴀᴛᴇ! My second car started a long line of cars with power assist steering...

  2. Slate is "confident in our plan -- [tax] incentive or not."

    At $50/year you are probbably paying about half of what the gas tax would be for your milage. So naw, Hawaii is slightly pro-EV in that way...

  3. Is ~150 mile range adequate for a fleet vehicle ?

    It will really depend on what the fleet is doing, and how big the service area is. Most existing fleets will already have someone that knows how far each vehicle travels on average per day in service. They will be a little less sure of what a maximum travel day looks like as opposed to an...

  4. Slate pickup sighting in downtown Warsaw, IN! (w/ frunk, bed, charging port closeup)

    Yeah, you are probably paying the price for the design goal of it being easy to wrap which makes flat expanses good and curves bad.

  5. PSA: Extended Range Battery can NOT be added / retrofit installed after purchase (confirmed by Slate)

    I don’t know how many chargers the island is going to have, or what ungodly price they will charge you, but since you really only need to get a few more miles out of the deal you will likely be able to use almost any on the way there or back, and for a pretty brief period of time. I don’t know...

  6. It looks like SLATE has pathetic EV efficiency. (and a rant).

    The Slate is a smallish pickup truck, and like any pickup truck shaped vehicle it is about as aerodynamic as a...I was going to say brick, but pickup trucks are even less aerodynamic then that. The bolt is a small subcompact, so small that it looks extremely off to the american car buying...

  7. Flat towing (with regen)

    Better _and_ worse. Generally once you get to a full battery you don’t just get to turn that off, it still makes power, the power still has to go somewhere, and sending it to the battery is exceptionally bad at that point (reduces life time of the battery, either gradually, or all at once by...

  8. Flat Tow support for Slate truck in the works [confirmed]

    You can flat tow a Rivian, under some limited circumstances. Mainly it is going to try to regen so it can’t have a full battery otherwise there is nowhere to put that power., and you ought to have someone in it to steer.... out of spec did a video on it, and the rivian team did it in the...
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