What's the Slate's maintenance like?

[brian10x]

One hill to die on at a time. No, an EV is not a perfect solution, but it's certainly an improvement. It's about progress,not perfection. Coal is bad, but so is drilling, transporting, refining, transporting and burning gas and diesel.

Where I live we also have nuclear (which has different issues) and hydro generated electricity, and wind is being developed. There are also enough homes with solar putting electrons back *into* the grid to create a small but still significant difference in the supply side pollution equation.

To me the zero emissions from my vehicle is only one small benefit of the vehicle as a whole. The fact is that even if it were an ICE truck, the Slate just fits my needs better than most of the rest of the market.

I really like SAFE nuclear energy. I hope America starts to embrace nuclear as a safe, clean power source. I'm actually old enough to remember when we thought cars would be powered by a tiny nuclear reactor!

 

[brian10x]

Windmills kill birds, as do skyscrapers, houses, deforestation to mine coal, and the garden variety house cat. All of these have a greater impact on the avian population than windmills.

From MIT: "A 2012 study found that wind projects kill 0.269 birds per gigawatt-hour of electricity produced, compared to 5.18 birds killed per gigawatt-hour of electricity from fossil fuel projects. That’s in part due to collisions with equipment (wind turbines aren’t the only energy infrastructure birds can fly into), but mostly because of the environmental impact of fossil fuels." https://climate.mit.edu/ask-mit/do-wind-turbines-kill-birds

Honestly I can't tell if you're a troll, a killjoy, a (bad, juvenile) comedian, or someone who just likes to crap on other people's optimism. For someone who's supposedly looking forward to owning a Slate, all your comments on this thread seem to be hyper critical and designed to tear down the entire concept of an EV.

I'm an AI troll and a spelling NAZI. You absolutely nailed it. Guilty.

 

[Luxrage]

I'm an AI troll and a spelling NAZI. You absolutely nailed it. Guilty.

Well you definitely struck a cord with sum of us with you're cereal spelling/grammar corrections, just don't overdue it or users may loath your posts and you won't get the desired affect!

 

[brian10x]

Well you definitely struck a cord with sum of us with you're cereal spelling/grammar corrections, just don't overdue it or users may loath your posts and you won't get the desired affect!

Duly noted!

And it's SOME. You are welcome!

 

[GaRailroader]

Duly noted!

And it's SOME. You are welcome!

It’s also Overdo.

 

[Luxrage]

It’s also Overdo.

There's a whole lot more in there, I pulled no punches on grammar problems in that post!

 

[brian10x]

There's a whole lot more in there, I pulled no punches on grammar problems in that post!

I try not to be too obnoxious or overbearing. Please forgive my spelling corrections. I'm mildly retarded and slightly artistic. I also have a slight conundrum in my thought process. I will make every effort to be more friendly and pleasing.

 

[Bud The Elder]

I really like SAFE nuclear energy. I hope America starts to embrace nuclear as a safe, clean power source. I'm actually old enough to remember when we thought cars would be powered by a tiny nuclear reactor!

Same here. Do you realize that The Jetsons was produced 63 years ago and set in the year 2062 which is only 37 years in the future? We have a *lot* of ground to cover in the next 3 decades to get from EV trucks to floating cities!

 

[cvollers]

I think E90400K had referenced a Forbes data point that said 10 cents per mile for maintenance on an ICE and 4 or 6 cents per mile on EV. Let’s just call it 5 cents a mile on maintenance savings and 10 cents a mile on fuel savings. 15 cents a mile is $15k difference in 100k miles. A $25k Slate could pay for itself in reduced maintenance and operating costs over an ICE vehicle in 167k miles.

Boom.

 

[AZFox]

I try not to be too obnoxious or overbearing. Please forgive my spelling corrections. I'm mildly retarded and slightly artistic. I also have a slight conundrum in my thought process. I will make every effort to be more friendly and pleasing.

Your knot bing awl fun duh mentally Sirius, argh yew.

 

[Driven5]

Your knot bing awl fun duh mentally Sirius, argh yew.

If you smell something burning, it's just my brain trying to wrap itself around this.

 

[KJRaven]

Your knot bing awl fun duh mentally Sirius, argh yew.

Thanks AI!!