Slate testing on solid ice & snow at Baudette Proving Ground in MN (video)

[Luxrage]

I want to see the Slate video where they show how it handles a washboard curve at 30+ mph. Because I have known fear in my RWD Rangers in said conditions.

I hit a slalom washboard section of the Chicago Skyway going about 70 in a single cab '99 Ranger. Great way to go from 😁😁 to 🫥 🫥 silence in no time flat!

 

[jonboy108]

In my teens and twenties, I drove Corvairs and VWs. On one Corvair I had recapped tires, on the other I had (just becoming available) Semperit radials. The rear weight bias caused me no end of trouble as I overcooked corners (I was a teen with a four speed) but never once did I have any trouble in the winter. That was in northern Ohio with heavy snowfall in those days. The rear weight bias in those was pretty severe, so that the late model Corvairs used the same brake shoes as Pontiac Tempests, but reversed front to rear. I think the rear motored Slate, with the additional weight of the battery pack, will do just fine. I'm interested in how the De Dion rear suspension handles irregular pavement, as was pointed out, for example, on washboard roads or gravel...

 

[1974D2004X4]

In my teens and twenties, I drove Corvairs and VWs. On one Corvair I had recapped tires, on the other I had (just becoming available) Semperit radials. The rear weight bias caused me no end of trouble as I overcooked corners (I was a teen with a four speed) but never once did I have any trouble in the winter. That was in northern Ohio with heavy snowfall in those days. The rear weight bias in those was pretty severe, so that the late model Corvairs used the same brake shoes as Pontiac Tempests, but reversed front to rear. I think the rear motored Slate, with the additional weight of the battery pack, will do just fine. I'm interested in how the De Dion rear suspension handles irregular pavement, as was pointed out, for example, on washboard roads or gravel...

Oh how I would love that to work on 6-9o grades

 

[1974D2004X4]

Slate folks show that truck in testing running up and down STEEP grades with the AW tires and no chains and I might bite.