This is basically my dream truck. Small, basic and flexible platform that has user modification and repair built into the design. It’s also can be converted between truck and SUV. I’m cautiously optimistic and if it makes it to market under 30k with the presented vision, I will be buying one.
How much would it be with a stereo and some paint?
We need more cheap, good vehicles for the masses, or way better public transport. Until then the divide between those with cars, and those without, gets bigger and bigger. Also, I can crank my own windows up and down and manually lock my doors as well.
Yes please.
As much as, some people love all the bells and whistles; we need an electric "Volkswagen Beetle "
cheap~~~~ inexpensive as possibleBasic electric car. 200 miles range would be nice, but not mandatory.
Please Ford GM one of you. Please make this, you’ll sell a million
Ford&GM: “Why would we want to sell a million for $1k profit when we can sell a million big ass trucks for $30k profit? And sell more when they break down from our piss poor quality after a 3 years”
Headline is misleading and assumes the government is going to subsidize production. The initial, and likely optimistic price is $28k.
How much will the 240 mile extended range battery cost? That’s going to be just about mandatory to make the thing useful. You don’t typically fast charge past 80%, and start looking for a charger when you get down to 25%, so the effective range of the 150 mile battery is actually only 83 miles (150 * 0.55).
That aesthetic, of highlighting rather than hiding battle scars, is key to the Slate ethos.
I wonder how the owners will feel about the scars on their truck when a plastic body panel cracks and they need to caulk it back together?
I wonder how the owners will feel about the scars on their truck when a plastic body panel cracks and they need to caulk it back together?
Who gives a shit? It’s a truck. Will it still drive? Haul? Tow? If yes, then there is no problem. If you’re getting it to look good, then you have completely missed the point of a truck; which, to be fair, most truck owners have.
some might like the style, but you’re right, a lot of people who buy trucks just want a pavement princess
I don’t even like trucks, but the plain interior, ev qualities, and low price is very attractive. I hope they make a kei van version, or a sedan/crossover. A smaller vehicle could be a really interesting proposition for city use.
It’s supposed to be able to modularly convert into a SUV, so we will see how that works.
I hope they have A/C and heat hookups for the back seats, might fog up if they don’t during winter x3
I like the idea, but I do hope they come out with a smallish car for those who don’t need a bed or truck formfactor. My bed would be so clean all the time, lol.
Yeah I don’t really like that aspect, because it kinda hints that the cab and the bed share a bulkhead and a non-permanent one at that like a Chevy Avalanche. That kind of thinking reminds me of Nintendo. That first Switch commercial, they show the guy playing Breath of the Wild on his TV at home, then it’s time to go so he slides the controller apart, slides the joycons onto the console and lifts it out of the dock, and now he’s playing on the bus/train/whatever it was. Then the next 2/3rds of the commercial are “Yeah! Yeah! And…” with people having rooftop parties playing two player games holding the joycons sideways like little controllers, which has happened precisely 0.0000 times since the launch of the console.
"It’s a reasonably priced, reasonably sized, barebones little electric truck, and for the sake of simplicity we’re only making it in one color and trim level. But we’re planning on offering a bunch of aftermarket options, and we’ve compromised the dry chafey B-cup tit fuck out of the design to accommodate the 3% of this shit that we’ll actually make before the company folds.
