Their headquarters is down the road from me. I will let you know when the sign no longer lights up. Should be a few days.
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phutatorius@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
It’ll be interesting to see how Slate does, if it makes it to production.
FenderStratocaster@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
It won’t do well. Wrong country.
CallMeAnAI@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s DoA. At 20, they kinda make sense. At 27 without the EV credit you could be buying a maverick.
blitzen@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Or the fully electric small truck Ford is working on.
As proof of concept, Slate is cool. Up against a vehicle from an actual truck manufacturer, it’s probably a hard sell.
grue@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Except the Maverick isn’t an EV. It’s a hybrid, at best.
CallMeAnAI@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
And? It comes with everything you’d expect from a ‘normal’ vehicle before you load up on your slate for several thousand dollars. You also get towing up to 8500lbs.
What’s the value proposition here? I only see this being successful in area where you MUST own an EV and even then it’s a hard sell without the tax credits.
grue@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The value proposition is that an EV is a Hell of a lot cheaper and simpler to maintain in the long run (I say as the owner of a mid-1990s small pickup truck, among other vehicles). Your emphasis on towing capacity and purchase price is subjective preference, not objective superiority.
For my subjective preference in particular, it may well be the first modern EV (“modern” meaning not some NiMH fleet sales only compliance car from the '90s) that I can actually stand to own, because “everything you’d expect from a ‘normal’ vehicle” includes spyware that makes it a deal-breaker for me. Having it stripped down is a feature that makes it worth more to me, not less!