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To start, there is no indication they will have any link to Amazon, besides investors in common. As many as possible of the parts are going to be industry standard commodity parts. An easy one is the headlights. It looks like they are one of the standard LED headlights you can buy pretty cheap...

The problem is while fuel consumption is somewhat proportional to weight, road wear is much greater based on weight. It's actually weight to the 4th power. From the GAO a fully loaded 5 axle truck has the same impact as 9,600 automobiles.

OK, the cooker does appear to be a "3 in one breakfast maker" that is on amazon and other sites, available in multiple colors, that is 120v 350 watts. The plug looks to me like a 12 volt plug though, and I can't find an image of the cooker's plug. I know I have seen DC cigarette lighter plugs...

Exactly, no company just goes and releases all their testing results, but some here seem to think that amounts to some kind of betrayal.

They likely have had panels in testing starting before the April announcement last year, back when they were running dark.

Everywhere Slate put under 20k they also put after federal incentives, and every video I saw from a content creator also mentioned it.

It's not all good, if it's this warm now, what's it going to be like in a few months?

And that photo appears to show a 12v plug. We haven't even seen an image of what kind of outlet will be there. The angle in this one hides it, most images show nothing there at all. On using the charging port as an outlet, that would depend on the charging connection being designed for output.

I think that while you shouldn't be too optimistic, there is a bit too much pessimism here on delivery dates. The line should start running late spring-early summer. That would be the 10 a week time, and most of those would be going to testing, certification, and events. That fits with starting...

That truck wouldn't have had the final panel materials. I don't know that we have seen one with the final panels, people have been told at events that the panels they were seeing weren't final.

The truck may not have an AC output at all, that's still unclear. The issue with running high powered stuff is it's a small truck with a small battery. Try to get through a day of work off of it and you likely need to then charge the truck before you can drive.

80s-90s in Southern California, much of the west has been spring or summer like for the past month.

They do seem to have repeated locations, and done locations within a few miles of each other. I'd like to see them make an effort to have each location at least 30 miles from previous ones, and drop the weekday morning ones that no one even posted about after.

AFAIK none of the new vehicles by startups or established manufacturers have announced an actual price 9 months out and stuck with it. Slate probably has them beat just by not already increasing the planned price in the past year. If you can't wait, you can't wait. Slate isn't going to ship...

I think the idea would be they are using AI to speed the transition to automation in factories that have a dated, non-automated flow. Manufacturing that was designed from the start as automated would not be a target for them to acquire.

I was really expecting they would go back to at least one every few weeks, with 3 future events showing on the page by now. Then once they are getting trucks off the line at even a slow testing rate, ramp that up to every week, some weeks multiple simultaneous events in different parts of the...

Whoever they have on updating the events page, it must be a very minor part of what they do. The only event shown was almost 2 weeks ago, the fleet page is just as out of date, with 2 events that have passed, and 1 still to come. I know they only have a limited number of event trucks, but I...

While it's not giving us the results of the test, it shows that they are doing the testing. Can you think of anyone just publicly showing their test results on a product at this stage? One that has potential competitors? Probably we will see a lot more stats and test results when they are...

Just from what I can read before the paywall, they are looking to buy up manufacturing firms and use AI to accelerate moving to automation. This likely wouldn't even look at a newer company like Slate, that is built from the start with automation.

I can understand a fee that is equivalent to the average driver's gas taxes, in order to pay for road maintenance, even better if it's done by miles driven, and heavily weighted by vehicle weight. But if it's 284% of the average? Gas taxes are charged both federally and by the state, in theory...