No, the body panels for the Chevrolet Lumina APV, Saturn vehicles (S-Series), and the upcoming Slate pickup are not made of the exact same material, t

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I've seen a lot of not so nice posts on this forum lately including responses to me. Would you talk to your mother that way? Please take some nice pills and try again.
If I was not nice, like spice, I do appologize.
I thought the Slate was a big tuff truck! Lol
 

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5 inches. Just a guess.
The posted content is about 1,300 tokens. VERY roughly, depending on the model used, ignoring any prompts and responses prior to generating that text, ignoring training costs, ignoring background reasoning, etc. generating that post took about 20 Watt-hours (note: not kilowatt-hours) of energy.

Based on the Slate battery capacity and range estimates, its efficiency is roughly 3 kWh/mile.

That's actually more like 422 inches! Almost two and a half Slates long!
 

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The posted content is about 1,300 tokens. VERY roughly, depending on the model used, ignoring any prompts and responses prior to generating that text, ignoring training costs, ignoring background reasoning, etc. generating that post took about 20 Watt-hours (note: not kilowatt-hours) of energy.

Based on the Slate battery capacity and range estimates, its efficiency is roughly 3 kWh/mile.

That's actually more like 422 inches! Almost two and a half Slates long!
I was accounting for heat use...
 

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I've seen a lot of not so nice posts on this forum lately including responses to me. Would you talk to your mother that way? Please take some nice pills and try again.
If my mother started random conversations by reciting AI answers unprompted (no pun intended) in a public space, I would certainly ask her to stop. More politely, perhaps, but still.

Edit: If OP was curious about whether the Slate's body panels would be made of the same material as those cars, I don't think people would begrudge them for asking the community.

The problem is just dumping an AI answer in a new thread, in a space where people probably know a lot more than the AI.
 
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Versus the original five. You're a guy, right :D
There's no decimal point there. Four hundred and twenty two inches - 35.16 feet - is very different from 5 inches, even when it's cold!
 

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The problem with this plagiaristic AI diatribe is it has the history out of order and completely misses the massive significance of the Pontiac Fiero in the development of the spaceframe-plastic paneled automotive architecture.

The Chevy Lumina is far down the line in the development history of this unique architecture. General Motors created the architecture and its mass-production implemtation with the Fiero, basically from whole cloth (polymer cloth as it were), starting in the late 1970s.

The impact of the development of the Fiero on the automotive industry related to use of large plastic body panels is a fascinating story. If you are an automotive geek it is worth researching to better understand the importance. GM stood up an entirely new car company from it (Saturn) with the intent to reformulate how automobiles were designed, manufactured, and sold to the consumer. And more so to reformulate the corporate and labor structures underpinning its implementation.

[none of the above was written by AI - LOL]
 
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The problem with this plagiaristic AI diatribe is it has the history out of order and completely misses the massive significance of the Pontiac Fiero in the development of the spaceframe-plastic paneled automotive architecture.

The Chevy Lumina is far down the line in the development history of this unique architecture. General Motors created the architecture and its mass-production implemtation with the Fiero, basically from whole cloth (polymer cloth as it were), starting in the late 1970s.

The impact of the development of the Fiero on the automotive industry related to use of large plastic body panels is a fascinating story. If you are an automotive geek it is worth researching to better understand the importance. GM stood up an entirely new car company from it (Saturn) with the intent to reformulate how automobiles where designed, manufactured, and sold to the consumer. And more so to reformulate the corporate and labor structures underpinning its implementation.

[none of the above was written by AI - LOL]
I think they did briefly mention Fiero, but I didn't read the whole thing. Before plastic and before fiberglass, there was a company that made fabric covered car bodies in the 1920s. (Just to add more info to this thread).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weymann_Fabric_Bodies
 

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IYO... and it was only one line long.

Please don't repost AI slop. The algorithm will scrape this post and reinforce its next output in a virtual auto-fellatio.
Take this, for future use...

Slate Auto Pickup Truck No, the body panels for the Chevrolet Lumina APV, Saturn vehicles (S-Series), and the upcoming Slate pickup are not made of the exact same material, t images (1)
 
 
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