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Yay! me too, my 1984 Mazda morphed into my 2018 Tacoma, ( by way of a convertible). The Tacoma is the "mid-size", a great truck, but I still need the escalator option. I want one of those 80's small trucks again, maybe even smaller.

Published towing capacity is usually way low, not sure why. The "old" rule-of-thumb, from the 1960's, was a vehicle can tow its own weight. That was with wimpy motors, manual-transmissions but high-octane gas. Now? a monster truck cant tow the turkey back from the grocery store. Its just BS...

And my 1984 long-bed Mazda was 117-ish (If I remember) and that was considered SMALL So? is there a Smaller-Slate, (remember the Subaru Brat) possible?

Ditto my 1984 Mazda B2200, Tho I added a rear bumper made from a treated 2x12, for that rustic look.

Folks, as soon as it hits the street Reese will have a 2" hitch tow package, with the wiring, on the market. If I know them it'll be the week before the first Slate ships

posted my stats, but the res-by-dae chart does not show up would really like to figure out where I am on "the list"

Long ago (1984) I had a Mazda B2200 Diesel, small truck, 2 door, 2WD, long bed. I drove it over 180,000 miles, sold it to my neighbor as his work-truck (contractor). he put another 100k on it, gave it to his son as his high-school-car. By that time it was as old as he was. Kid wrapped it around...

The idea is go underground. In our case dryer outlet is against an outside wall, so just ran cable down the wall in a conduit, throught the wall, then buried it 8" deep in a little trench in the dirt outside, all the way to the post. Direct-burial cable does not need a conduit. Tho sounds to me...

cadblu, you said this: "Since it’s reservations holders only, Slate could make the test drive an after hours private event at a baseball stadium parking field, . . ." Please, make it Daytona! You will be mobbed.

I'm 100% off-grid. There is a power-pole right across the street from me. Florida-Power-and-Darkness want $7500, to bring it to my side of the road, and put in a meter. Then there is a charge, every month, even if I do no use it at all! SO I decided few years ago to experiment, (old retired...

I like sodamo's explanation! Never heard that before. I will put golf-balls on throttle and engagement levers on my lawn tractor!

I think the tri-fold rigid design also lends itself to lightweight solar panels! - flat, neat and easy install with a few fat SS screws and fender washers? - folds up to the front, natural place to put the solar controller on the wall behind driver - can be completely removed, just 1 little...

That unused 30A dryer circuit is your gold-mine! Just get 50ft or so of #10 cable, run it to wherever you park the truck, put a 4x4 treated pole in the ground and mount an RV outlet on it. Where the dryer outlet is, wire it up inside the box and put a plain cover on it. Remember to write a label...

"big" is the problem - everyone wants the "big" vehicle, because thats what they see on TV - guys? you want the "big" girl? - girls? you want the "fat" guy? just wake up everyone, buy what you need (or really want). Vote with your wallet

Now thats a quote!, if I can find it. This is one of the things that "should be true" but probably is not. OK, Ford: Mini truck! any possibility at all, before say 2028 model year? please?

I doubt very much that the panel is 80, probably 100+ or more. for an L2 charger you need a 30A circuit at 220v, uses #10 wire (if distance is short, say less than 50 ft) If this is not sufficient? Please, do not get an EV, you will be disappointed. The payback for an EV is all about low-rate...

Really, read the press, its totally Haigspeak, I could not get a single sense of purpose out of it at all. 1) engineering: nothing "we will build a factory", Ford have done that for a century, does not work any more 2) electric tech: even less "we will use xxx to surpass the yyy competition"...

VERY good point here, if something is wrong, figure it out early, before you have 100,000 battery recalls I want my slate in central FL, we do not really have a "winter" But I have lived in NJ, upstate NY, Switzerland, (and England) so I do know what snow means Lets see a slate (with snow...

well, if a Brother or Cousin visit, by the time we get back from the airport the old accent is back. I now live in Central-FL, no "hillbillys", its flat here, just "swampbillys". Even I am a redneck these days tho, farmers tan all the way. BUT, we all drive pickups! Tacoma, Chevy, F150's by...

Don't know if you follow the Brit aristocracy, but they are back to "Kings English" now. Even if I can't speak it any more, too long in the Land-of-Burgers, tho I do like the fries.