Suspension Poll: Lifted, Lowered, or Standard Height?

[AZFox]

Do you expect to order one of the kits for lifting or lowering your Slate?

If you change your mind you can change your vote in the poll.

What are your reasons for lifting or lowering?

What do you think the tradeoffs of lifting or lowering will be?

Images of the suspension heights (lowered, standard height, lifted):

 

[SichuanHot]

I'd keep it stock. Slate would function as my daily driver around town and to and from work. What I'd lift is my X5 and turn it into a proper overland rig.

 

[GoinPostall]

I'd lower mine. To me, it looks a little cooler, and the most I'm going to have in it is 10 or 20- 40lb bags of wood pellets. Plus in my head it may get better range due to less wind resistance. It's also going to replace my 2020 Honda Civic, which is my current daily driver, and that has no issues with ground clearance on the mountain roads.

 

[evtruth]

Height is TBD for me. I sat in it yesterday (I'm 5' 11") and the height felt pretty good factory. I'll probably keep this in an open air configuration from April to October and make it my mountain bike hauler, so may lift it and put some off-road tires on it. We'll see.

 

[Karl Childers]

I like the lowered look in the pic. I think subtle 1 to 1.25" inch drop would be ideal balance of look/ ride quality.

 

[metroshot]

If my Slate doors hits the tall curbs or the front bumper scrapes the parking berms & driveway apron, I will lift it.

Had to do a 1.5" EIbach lift on my Mach E to clear the curbs, not scrape the front bumper dam and not hit the steep driveway aprons.

Now my lifted Mach E is a breeze to drive.

 

[skidoofast]

I’d like to lift it, but then I’d want the more aggressive tires so to avoid $$$ I’ll probably leave it alone or add later

 

[5ohbrad]

I want to lower mine and reduce the frontal area for a small efficiency gain. I might consider a wheel tire change for the same reason. As much as I like the look of lifted on 32” tires, it will effect the range.

 

[AZFox]

I want to lower mine and reduce the frontal area for a small efficiency gain.

I'm curious how much difference lowering it an inch would affect the drag coefficient.

I'm sure there will be "High Milers" lowering their Slates and installing lightweight tires and wheels that have whatever other attributes they think will be most efficient.

See also:

 

[skidoofast]

I'm curious how much difference lowering it an inch would affect the drag coefficient.

I'm sure there will be "High Milers" lowering their Slates and installing lightweight tires and wheels that have whatever other attributes they think will be most efficient.

See also:

I hope they never make a topper like that, gives me wannabe cyber truck vibes

 

[5ohbrad]

It’s not that I’m a hyper-miler, but I do enjoy modifying vehicles. In the case of a RWD EV truck, lowering makes more sense (to me) than lifting and might pick up a small bit of efficiency. There is a case to be made for a pre-runner/buggy type situation. The Slate appears to have a near balanced 50/50 weight distribution if I were to wager a guess. Ditching the front weight bias can really help the capability of a 2wd vehice.

 

[skidoofast]

It’s not that I’m a hyper-miler, but I do enjoy modifying vehicles. In the case of a RWD EV truck, lowering makes more sense (to me) than lifting and might pick up a small bit of efficiency. There is a case to be made for a pre-runner/buggy type situation. The Slate appears to have a near balanced 50/50 weight distribution if I were to wager a guess. Ditching the front weight bias can really help the capability of a 2wd vehice.

not that I will, but a trip back to my youth, lift, slightly bigger tires, a roll bar in the bed and a whip cb antenna

like a large scale RC truck

 

[skidoofast]

not that I will, but a trip back to my youth, lift, slightly bigger tires, a roll bar in the bed and a whip cb antenna

like a large scale RC truck

Something like this but not Silverado

 

[Luxrage]

Something like this but not Silverado

Funnily enough I was just looking at Chevy LUVs, P'ups and other older two door pickups trying to see what the Slate could look like with that kind of rear light bar mount:

I'd hope with a slanted aero topper it'd look like a pre-runner,

But I think with the standard ride height and wheels it'll probably look more like this:

 

[evtruth]

I'm curious how much difference lowering it an inch would affect the drag coefficient.

I'm sure there will be "High Milers" lowering their Slates and installing lightweight tires and wheels that have whatever other attributes they think will be most efficient.

See also:

As someone who has put over 70K miles on his Teslas with 25K+ of those miles being roadtrips (Indiana to... DC and back, Tampa and back, ATL and back, St. Louis and back, etc) I don't really care about efficiency anymore, to the point I put 18" wheels and off-road tires (they lifted the car about an inch) on my Tesla. I've never been anywhere near stranded and honestly I rarely ever look at the charge percentage indicator anymore.