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While trucks do statistically spend most of their time doing non-truck stuff, 2/3 of owners reported using their trucks frequently or occasionally for towing/hauling and only 1/3 reported doing so rarely or never. Yes 1/3 is certainly very significant, I'm not sure I'd call a 2/3 majority 'an...

Thank you for this demonstration in exactly the type of observation bias I was talking about. You just described me and my truck, thank you very much. Like so many others, my daily commuting solo is the only thing the vast majority of people on the road have ever see my clean late model...

It doesn't bother me if people think they look dumb, since I do too. Single cab short bed are the good looking ones. I only get actually offended by people that ignorantly claim 4-door short bed trucks are just oversized wasteful fashion statements that aren't used and/or useful for 'real' truck...

...And unsprung weight at that. But in all fairness, my previous comments were also from more of a theoretical standpoint. As with almost everything, the answer to which is better in practice is 'it depends'. Each has its potential advantages in different circumstances. and execution matters...

From follows function. There is no other vehicle type that can do the combination of things I do with my 'stupid looking' 4-door truck. And yes, fleet sales is part of the quiet brilliance of the Slate plan... Something I'm very interested to see how it plays out.

R3 is currently the next most interesting EV to Slate IMO.

Spec Slate would be awesome, even if it doesn't make any logical sense. The problem with Watts link is that it's a lot of complication and expense for no real benefit. From a performance perspective, a credit card (or even USB charging cable) worth of lateral movement that doesn't actually...

As far as I can tell, not hard at all. Just replace the lift-kit on the pictured Slate with the lowering-kit. It's almost as if they intentionally designed the Panhard angle to match the handling level.

My F150 tailgate sits at 35" and the step is at 22", and I'll admit it's handy with that bed height. It also makes the tailgate much heavier and more expensive. The Slate tailgate looks to sit about even with the top of the bumper sides. Those are noticeably below the tops of the ~29"...

You mean exactly like Slate has publicly stated, and been discussed here previously, must be done to remove them on Slate too? Just because you can see fasteners, doesn't mean you can see ALL the fasteners.

It's interesting and I appreciate the effort. I'm curious what the motivations for constraining it to fitting inside a closed tailgate comes from? Tailgate down, or removed entirely, opens up 1-piece shell options.

The 'technically more correct' term is aluminum alloy. But since any metal that is not commercially pure is technically an 'alloy', if you're going to drop one of the words for brevity, it is more functionally descriptive to drop the word alloy and keep the base material name (aluminum) instead...

Yeah, you're right. A full size screen definitely makes it easier to spot. Sometimes it's better to be working with equipment bigger than 6 inches.

:idea: Ohhhhhhh... So when you said 'hub' you meant wheel, and when you said 'wheel' you meant tire. That makes so much more sense! Thanks for the additional clarification. I was so focused on trying to see what was wrong with the hub in the wheel that I wasn't even seeing the wheel in the...

So apparently as the equal and opposite of people with nothing to actually contribute to a subject resorting to posting AI summaries about it, now we've got people with no actual knowledge of a subject resorting to posting 'AI' accusations about it... :facepalm: Everything on the Slate site is...

"This video makes me angry!" in 3... 2... 1...

This is NOT from Ford. It's pure fantasy from insideevs.com.

1) Slate has job postings that don't seem to be closing. 2) This could mean multiple things on the bad-good spectrum. 3) Ghost jobs have become a common practice by existing corporate ('BS in BS postings') HR ('deception') departments. 4) This is one possible 'not good' explanation for (1)...

I'm guessing those 'couple of pickups' were all body on frame? Slate is not, which makes it a while nother can of worms.