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[bartflossom]

 

[Tom Sawyer]

Who is Tjitsme2013? 🤔

 

[KevinRS]

That's the tightest dating of delivery I've seen, "vehicles start arriving late Q4". I know many assumed that, but all we'd really seen was late 2026.

 

[ScooterAsheville]

That's the tightest dating of delivery I've seen, "vehicles start arriving late Q4". I know many assumed that, but all we'd really seen was late 2026.

Yea, that caught my attention too. My reaction is "well there goes the idea of anybody getting their Slates in Sep, Oct, Nov". When a company says "late Q4", that almost always means December 31, and then to employees - who are actually doing beta tests.

I genuinely hope I got that wrong (like everyone here, I'm reading tea leaves and telling fortunes). And that people get their Slates earlier in Q4.

 

[sodamo]

Yea, that caught my attention too. My reaction is "well there goes the idea of anybody getting their Slates in Sep, Oct, Nov". When a company says "late Q4", that almost always means December 31, and then to employees - who are actually doing beta tests.

I genuinely hope I got that wrong (like everyone here, I'm reading tea leaves and telling fortunes). And that people get their Slates earlier in Q4.

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[KevinRS]

Yea, that caught my attention too. My reaction is "well there goes the idea of anybody getting their Slates in Sep, Oct, Nov". When a company says "late Q4", that almost always means December 31, and then to employees - who are actually doing beta tests.

I genuinely hope I got that wrong (like everyone here, I'm reading tea leaves and telling fortunes). And that people get their Slates earlier in Q4.

I really don't think they mean December 31, and for employees only. I expect that relatively soon they start rolling trucks, very slowly, off the line to prove everything is working, send off for testing, prove epa mileage, crash tests, etc, and then line demo trucks. The employee trucks might start by fall. I expect some number of actual customer deliveries in December.

 

[ScooterAsheville]

>> I really don't think they mean December 31, and for employees only.

I hope you are right and I am wrong. I truly do.

 

[Shrink36s]

I don't know how accurate this site is, https://tinytrucktracker.com/trucks/slate/, they do note that the body shop line is 100% complete, and they are working on trim lines. Since there is only one trim, that will be much easier to setup than the multi-trims of other manufactures. In that case, I think they could be closer to being building and adjusting soon to get closer full-on production.

 

[ScooterAsheville]

Thanks for the link to that site. Kind of cool to see various trucks assembled in one spot. They're a bit off on a few things, but cool anyway. Kudos to the site owner for trying.

I did get a chuckle out of the "Massive funding" bullet for the Slate. $1.5 billion is a drop in the bucket in the auto industry, but I guess they're grading on a scale.

If $1.5 billion is "massive funding", one wonders what kind of small electric truck could have been delivered for the $20+ billion written off by various OEMs for "electric vehicle program losses".

Hmm. Let's do the math. Call a Slate $30K. OK, that's 667,000 free Slates. Oh, and the total reported losses across all OEMs and suppliers is way greater than $20 billion.

That's more Slates than the entire state of Wyoming. We could have given a free Slate to a whole state. That's capitalism for you.

 

[Luxrage]

I don't know how accurate this site is, https://tinytrucktracker.com/trucks/slate/, they do note that the body shop line is 100% complete, and they are working on trim lines. Since there is only one trim, that will be much easier to setup than the multi-trims of other manufactures. In that case, I think they could be closer to being building and adjusting soon to get closer full-on production.

Looking at them all side-by-side, the Slate is the most normal looking one of the bunch. The rest either have that no-hood future car design, are trying something way out of left field "Augmented Reality Windshield" or are dead. (RIP Bollinger's base pickup).

 

[Shrink36s]

Looking at them all side-by-side, the Slate is the most normal looking one of the bunch. The rest either have that no-hood future car design, are trying something way out of left field "Augmented Reality Windshield" or are dead. (RIP Bollinger's base pickup).

I think that is part of their advantage, too. People don’t like change, and familiar is comforting. Psychological win.

 

[MotoGary]

That's more Slates than the entire state of Wyoming. We could have given a free Slate to a whole state. That's capitalism for you.

Since Wyoming is one of the least EV friendly states, I doubt you'd find many takers. 🤠

 

[ScooterAsheville]

>> the Slate is the most normal looking one of the bunch

American pickup buyers are famously styling-conservative and highly conformist. Slate could have done a much more efficient design in many ways, but they saw what happens to any truck that doesn't look like every other truck.

You could drop the Slate into 1976, put fake exhaust tips on it, wrap it so it looks like cheap paint, and nobody would notice it.

 

[ScooterAsheville]

Since Wyoming is one of the least EV friendly states, I doubt you'd find many takers. 🤠

As a paratrooper, I had a friend from Wyoming who had a jackalope on the wall of his barracks room. He had me believing for two years. Back then (1974) we didn't have Google.

 

[TPL]

Since Wyoming is one of the least EV friendly states, I doubt you'd find many takers. 🤠

They'd quickly become the most EV-enthusiastic state!