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Slate Truck is a $20,000 American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, and no touchscreen (www.theverge.com)

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago (10 children)

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?

[+] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (5 children)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

it will be relatively easy to replace the body panels on this truck

IDK, if they're injection molded plastic then it kinda seems like the only way to get major damage repaired is to buy a replacement from Slate Auto. You can't just visit the junkyard and start cutting material to weld on for patches.

Slate Auto will have a monopoly in addition to having a more expensive manufacturing process. Going with plastic panels means they need less capital to build the factory, but it also means the panels will take longer to produce. Stamping sheet metal can be done fast and cheap, but the machines to do that have a higher up front cost.

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