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Out of curiosity, where are people seeing Slate marketing? I don't think I've seen any advertisements for Slate at all. And I only sometimes use ad blockers (I have a couple ad supported web sites that I want to support by not blocking.)

Slate will be good at the things that you want to use it for. They're just marketing to what they think will be the most lucrative group. Maybe they figure people like you already know how great it will be.

To figure it out, no. To get government funding for figuring it out, yes. :)

Self-driving cars wouldn't make human drivers less safe than they were before, so they shouldn't affect insurance rates for human drivers.

Assuming of course that the Blank Slate is successful enough to spawn a second model, because of course it will be, what makes sense for Slate the company to build for their second model? Full size truck? (Four door option, two door with very long bed option? Body on frame? Three row SUV...

"Could" Also, the 12th Imam could return and endorse Slate, driving all other car companies out of business.

Every Lightning owner I've seen comment about it says they love their truck. I don't want or need something that size but it made me slightly jealous; I wish someone would make an EV version of my favorite car that was so excellent. Ford canceled it (for now) because it was less profitable...

Melinda Gates? :) Though even in her case, her parents were middle class enough to send her to a private school.

Their money actually doesn't sit. It gets constantly reinvested in things like Slate.

They'll be better off at higher paying jobs.

It really depends what kind of improvements are available, as you note. Every ten years there might be some significant ones. In ten years I expect sodium-ion batteries that cost less than a grand per car and solid state batteries that cost, perhaps, quite a bit more than that for quite a bit...

I would love to see how a Slate van would differ from the "SUV".

But now how will Bezos haters slag Slate? Buying outdated factories and modernizing them sounds like a great way to spend $100 billion.

Shut up and take my money.

I believe that's the point. Slate picked 1000 lbs and then engineered to that number, instead of picking 3500 lbs and engineering to that number for more or less the same cost.

Was it a Prius? Our Prius C original 12V battery lasted 14 years!

This is about the 12V battery. I don't expect Slate to put extra impediments in the way of normal maintenance like other carmakers. (Remember that thread where some guy needed expensive software to replace the brakes on his Ioniq 5?) If Slate offers any ability at all to replace/upgrade the...

Openpilot seems to have synergy with Slate -- they both have the do-it-yourself thing going on. https://comma.ai/openpilot https://comma.ai/shop/comma-four

The car I wanted before the Slate was an EV version of our Prius C. It's the perfect form factor for us. The Bolt comes closest, but is a bit big, and I trust Toyota quality more than Chevy. Maybe the forthcoming Corolla EV will be available as a hatchback. But of course, it won't have the...

Only terrible compared to expectations, I think. IIRC the EPA rating was 37 MPG at a time when the Prius was 50 MPG, which was disappointing for me.