Review by InsideEVs - I Drove Slate’s $25,000 Electric Truck. It Could Be A Real Game-Changer

[stEVe]

Not gonna lie, one of my favorite things about my current car (2024 500e) is that I can hear that motor whine. It’s interest and character and if there’s one thing EVs are known for it’s their drivetrains just being devoid of character.

My EV keeps me from dealing with those characters at Jiffy Lube. 🤭

 

[BCondrey]

Sure, but how long till we get level 5 self-driving autonomy, CarPlay and Apple Music? /s

 

[nicomalo]

Aw nuts, I was hoping to catch a whisper of the sound in one of these videos. That explains why no one has recorded the AVAS sound yet nor commented on the spaceship chorus or hisses or tire-on-gravel or whatever. Still hoping for spaceship.



Wow, that's great! I'm an industrial controls engineer and I've worked on too many CNCs, robots, servos, and VFDs with bad inverter coil whine, I've heard cheap electric scooters and electric motorcycles that do the same and I've hated it, but I'm hoping that there's none in the Slate. The author is 53 years old, so maybe his ears are less able to detect very high-frequency squeal than a younger person's ears, but at least I can be confident that I'll be unable to detect it in a couple decades!

Check it out! Finally have a chance to hear the AVAS sound and reverse tone.

 

[tubes]

Check in out! Finally have a chance to hear the AVAS sound and reverse tone.

Perhaps I'm old. There was too much jumble for me to figure out what's what. Is it really going to go Ding, Ding, Ding in reverse?

 

[Freyar]

Perhaps I'm old. There was too much jumble for me to figure out what's what. Is it really going to go Ding, Ding, Ding in reverse?

I interpret it as:
0:06 - Low Speed Audio (for Pedestrians)
0:08 - Signal Audio
0:10 - Reverse Warning Audio (sounds like)

 

[nicomalo]

I interpret it as:
0:06 - Low Speed Audio (for Pedestrians)
0:08 - Signal Audio
0:10 - Reverse Warning Audio (sounds like)

This is what I hear as well!