Reusing and recycling accessories

[Letas]

The Systems Thinkers at Slate will come up with a good solution, just you watch.

Yes, that we can agree on.

The solution is one central distribution system. I’d bet my reservation fee that the delivery partners are not holding any significant amounts of inventory. It goes against the ethos of the company.

 

[AZFox]

I suppose I’m reading between the lines too much of what “before delivery” means.

I think so, yes.

From a practical sense, it doesn’t make any sense to outsource these to the “field”.

That's a matter of opinion.

And if they are, I would expect to have to eat the full cost of a second set of wheels. Reverse logistics for them would be expensive, clunky, and overall silly. I would expect to have to throw those 4 tires in your garage.

As I wrote before, I think doing that would be a mistake. It's wasteful. Selling an EV with throw-away wheels just plain isn't good look.

 

[AZFox]

All that's happened here is I've conjured up a way to not make the buyer eat the cost of wheels and bumpers they aren't going to use.

Ship the bumper, packaged, in the bed. Allow the alternate to be installed without creating a barely-used bumper that goes to waste.

The solution is one central distribution system. I’d bet my reservation fee that the delivery partners are not holding any significant amounts of inventory. It goes against the ethos of the company.

I think forcing customers to buy parts that go to waste is against the company ethos.

We can agree to disagree and hang tight until we see what happens.

 

[Letas]

All that's happened here is I've conjured up a way to not make the buyer eat the cost of wheels and bumpers they aren't going to use.

Ship the bumper, packaged, in the bed. Allow the alternate to be installed without creating a barely-used bumper that goes to waste.



I think forcing customers to buy parts that go to waste is against the company ethos.

We can agree to disagree and hang tight until we see what happens.

Sure, fair enough. I think a pre-delivery install of these (next door to the Warsaw site maybe) solves these problems and then some.

I’d only assume Slate has these hashed out, and one of their lurkers is reading this thread getting a giggle out of our speculation.

 

[KevinRS]

The only way to get an answer soon about swapped out parts is going to be for someone doing one of those interviews with slate that we've seen several of so far to ask.
The answer may just be "we are working on that"