Slate vs. Telo

[cvollers]

I was doing some research and stumbled across this Telo fanboy vid. Enjoy.

 

[cvollers]

This is a much better Telo vid...Jay asks some good questions:

 

[Swinefuzz]

Seen it before.

It is literally apples-to-oranges comparison IMO.

The Slate is for DIY folks and cheap commute folks and holdouts like me who have waited YEARS for a sensible option to present itself.

And the Slate is for companies needing to build up their fleet. If a worker bashes into a pole, you could literally swap a fender in an hour, maybe even wrap it. Your company would have spare body panels and vinyl wrap pieces in stock for quick in-house repair VS sending the truck out to a body shop and waiting days or weeks.

Who is the Telo for? I guess for folks caught up in the techy car fad. It has capacitive door handles. You slip your hand under the door handle and, get this, you DON'T PULL OUT on the door handle, you wait for it to sense your presence and it unclicks the door for you. Gee whiz. Who needs that? Especially when a zombie herd is closing in. And how much do FOUR of those door handles add to the price of the car? One of the many, many reasons that goofy looking little truck is priced at over $40K. Another reason: the glass roof. That is an enormous slab of heavy glass, so heavy it must be a serious ding on your range. And how much does it add to the cost of the vehicle? And how much does it cost to REPLACE when someone breaks it and it leaks water into your $40K EV every time it rains. And how long for the special proprietary replacement piece of glass to ship to you and how many workers to install it? It takes 1-2 men to replace a regular windshield. It would take 4 men to replace that dumb roof... I could go on. The first time I saw the Telo's "features" I predicted it would fail.

The Silicon Valley tech geeks won't want it like they want (wanted) Teslas.
Companies concerned about costs (literally all companies) won't want them for their work truck fleets.
The common American family with thousands in debt won't want it if they have more reasonable options. Even a crappy Maverick is a more reasonable option, even with all its recalls and tech mishaps.
The common insecure male won't want that silly Telo. They want the big, manly, masculine twucks with the big wheels and the tow packages that never get used. The Telo won't look good on them. Sends the wrong message.

Who is the Telo even for besides a few enthusiasts with YouTube channels and techy car stans?

 

[cvollers]

Seen it before.

It is literally apples-to-oranges comparison IMO.

The Slate is for DIY folks and cheap commute folks and holdouts like me who have waited YEARS for a sensible option to present itself.

And the Slate is for companies needing to build up their fleet. If a worker bashes into a pole, you could literally swap a fender in an hour, maybe even wrap it. Your company would have spare body panels and vinyl wrap pieces in stock for quick in-house repair VS sending the truck out to a body shop and waiting days or weeks.

Who is the Telo for? I guess for folks caught up in the techy car fad. It has capacitive door handles. You slip your hand under the door handle and, get this, you DON'T PULL OUT on the door handle, you wait for it to sense your presence and it unclicks the door for you. Gee whiz. Who needs that? Especially when a zombie herd is closing in. And how much do FOUR of those door handles add to the price of the car? One of the many, many reasons that goofy looking little truck is priced at over $40K. Another reason: the glass roof. That is an enormous slab of heavy glass, so heavy it must be a serious ding on your range. And how much does it add to the cost of the vehicle? And how much does it cost to REPLACE when someone breaks it and it leaks water into your $40K EV every time it rains. And how long for the special proprietary replacement piece of glass to ship to you and how many workers to install it? It takes 1-2 men to replace a regular windshield. It would take 4 men to replace that dumb roof... I could go on. The first time I saw the Telo's "features" I predicted it would fail.

The Silicon Valley tech geeks won't want it like they want (wanted) Teslas.
Companies concerned about costs (literally all companies) won't want them for their work truck fleets.
The common American family with thousands in debt won't want it if they have more reasonable options. Even a crappy Maverick is a more reasonable option, even with all its recalls and tech mishaps.
The common insecure male won't want that silly Telo. They want the big, manly, masculine twucks with the big wheels and the tow packages that never get used. The Telo won't look good on them. Sends the wrong message.

Who is the Telo even for besides a few enthusiasts with YouTube channels and techy car stans?

I'm somewhat baffled by the Telo. Its expensive. It doesn't look like a truck...it looks like a clown car (even Jay is questioning why they are calling it a truck). It doesn't have a frunk...that tunnel storage looks fairly unusable to me, much less usable than what the R1T has. That front end just doesn't look safe. The rear suspension seems compromised. What they are doing with the battery density could be interesting, and I do like the use of L-track in the bed. But the whole thing feels (and looks) seriously bootstrapped...they built the prototype specifically for the PR opportunity of being featured on Jay Leno's Garage. I'm guessing that if this thing does make it to market, they might sell a few in Silicon Valley, but middle America is never going to buy it.

One more thing: Doug Demuro likes the Telo for its "quirks and features" and if that's not enough reason to pass on it, I don't know what is.

 

[Swinefuzz]

I'm somewhat baffled by the Telo. Its expensive. It doesn't look like a truck...it looks like a clown car (even Jay is questioning why they are calling it a truck). It doesn't have a frunk...that tunnel storage looks fairly unusable to me, much less usable than what the R1T has. That front end just doesn't look safe. The rear suspension seems compromised. What they are doing with the battery density could be interesting, and I do like the use of L-track in the bed. But the whole thing feels (and looks) seriously bootstrapped...they built the prototype specifically for the PR opportunity of being featured on Jay Leno's Garage. I'm guessing that if this thing does make it to market, they might sell a few in Silicon Valley, but middle America is never going to buy it.

One more thing: Doug Demuro likes the Telo for its "quirks and features" and if that's not enough reason to pass on it, I don't know what is.

I haven't watched enough EV test drive videos to know, but this Telo sounds bad. Lots of loud motor whine and road noise.

Jay: "Buttons. Screens."
Telo Guy: "We, uh, we... A...combination of screens and buttons. Yeah, that's the ticket."

I'm somewhat baffled that Jay Leno is still alive. Or is that a puppet? Or a Tesla bot?

And, yes, Doug Demuro. I didn't know who he was before a month ago. I still remember his reaction to the Slate Truck. He literally seemed angry that it existed. Insists EVERYBODY wants BIG and four doors and tech and screens and features up the wazoo and we're all towing boats or campers. He spends the whole video SNIFFING LOUDLY and tending to his nose like a cokehead, then finishes the video with an ad selling financial assistance for people with crushing debt.

 

[slateya]

The Telo hitting the US market will fair just as well as it hitting a dodge Ram. DOA.

 

[cvollers]

I haven't watched enough EV test drive videos to know, but this Telo sounds bad. Lots of loud motor whine and road noise.

Jay: "Buttons. Screens."
Telo Guy: "We, uh, we... A...combination of screens and buttons. Yeah, that's the ticket."

I'm somewhat baffled that Jay Leno is still alive. Or is that a puppet? Or a Tesla bot?

And, yes, Doug Demuro. I didn't know who he was before a month ago. I still remember his reaction to the Slate Truck. He literally seemed angry that it existed. Insists EVERYBODY wants BIG and four doors and tech and screens and features up the wazoo and we're all towing boats or campers. He spends the whole video SNIFFING LOUDLY and tending to his nose like a cokehead, then finishes the video with an ad selling financial assistance for people with crushing debt.

Demuro’s review of the Telo is so ridiculous I could not bring myself to post a link to it.

 

[1yeliab_sufur1]

I think the telo will struggle to bring a good profit I believe they said there first run is 500 units and they also liked it to a side by side which is bad marketing since for that price you can get a much more capable side by side with about the same features and more protection plus no safety rating unlike the slate since telo I believe has been around longer right? I’m not mocking the design since crumple zones exist but it reminds me of me of old vw buses if you get on a head on collision that steering column is well going in you and I feel this could be very very similar with the telo even if a airbag is there it could result in more damage to the driver and passenger maybe even fatalities because of this design and I don’t trust that guy in the video jay Leno is fine but something about this demure give me creeps but idk why people get actually mad over these things it’s something new both the telo and slate I think the slate with the backing will last but may struggle early on but once the growing pains are done it should last quite some many many years and the telo might succeed in the short term but long term I don’t think it will last with the design and function it’s like every one else planed obsolescence while slate even though a ev has change ability and uses common and widely available parts from the ground up so even if god forbid they go out there will still be replacement parts for well ever at this time

 

[E90400K]

Open front tires is an aerodynamic killer.

 

[1yeliab_sufur1]

Open front tires is an aerodynamic killer.

But didn’t they make the door holes just for the reason but is a closed design better the open it seems the open would cost more since instead of it being just a panel it’s now a panel and extra hmmm

 

[E90400K]

But didn’t they make the door holes just for the reason but is a closed design better the open it seems the open would cost more since instead of it being just a panel it’s now a panel and extra hmmm

I'd bet there is still a lot of drag in the design.

 

[cvollers]

I'd bet there is still a lot of drag in the design.

And a lot of rattling. Watch the Demuro review vid. The prototype looks like it was designed by a fifth grader.

 

[HiSlate]

Slate, because its a two door.

 

[1yeliab_sufur1]

And a lot of rattling. Watch the Demuro review vid. The prototype looks like it was designed by a fifth grader.

that is true rattling looking at it it looks to be a full thing they should have ironed that stuff out before presenting it to a big shot car guy with millions following the video sits at 600k views as of today but if the next showing is the same as this one it would be a nail in the coffin I think because it would show the true lack of progress and polish

 

[SichuanHot]

Everything about Telo screams vaporware cashgrab. I don't see it hitting the market, just like Aptera. The founders of Telo seem like a bunch of con artists who won't truthfully expect to sell and make an EV. I foresee it going the way of Canoo.