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Where would people even go to buy the things? Are they planning on using existing dealerships somewhere to sell and service them?The Slate Truck Will Cost $24,950 According To An Apparent Website Mistake - The Autopian
The slate EV truck price leak shows that this is the cheapest EV truck in America, and cheapest truck with a price under $25,000
$25k. Interesting idea. We’ll see how it works. I like the idea. I’m not interested in a two seat truck, but that is fine for a lot of people. Should’ve at least put a bench seat in there.
You’ll buy them online. Carvana will be their certified dealer.
Yeah, but who’s going to work on it? Does Carvana have repair shops?
You're more thank likely right, but I'm curious why you think it can't work? I think carvana would have to figure out the service part, clearly. But otherwise isn't this similar to how tesla/riviaan/etc handle their "dealerships"?
I can see a lot of those being used as fleet trucks for different businesses. Theyve just got to have the parts and service in place or some way to get parts and service easily and it could probably work.
I have no idea how Tesla and Rivian handle their dealerships. I reckon they have one in New Orleans somewhere, but for this Slate truck to have any level of success they'll have to have either a partnership with current existing dealerships for delivery and service, or they'll need to start building some physical locations that are within respectable driving distances for folks. I think if someone were to buy one of these Slate trucks for personal use, they would want to be able to take it to a physical location for service when it needs maintenance or fixing. After these things have been on the market for a few years, you'll probably start seeing them for sale as used vehicles at traditional dealerships. Then those traditional dealerships will probably have no choice but to service them at that point.
In a world of $100,000 trucks a cheap truck option isn’t a bad thing. I just hope this isn’t the Yugo of the electric truck market.
Fear of the unknown is a big reason they would need to articulate a service plan that was compelling.
I think with ev's that's very doable. I think with ICE cars, all the environmental regulations basically require the engine be so complicated that so much stuff is packed under the hood that changing out a lot of things is going to be complicated because multiple parts will have to be removed.
Yea, I think there is a market for a glorified golf cart at a cheap price, but you've got to have 4 or 5 seats I think to make the market a decent size. But I think basic teslas are under $40k now? So if you do probably need to keep it below $30k to be compelling, or you need to start adding features to make it more like a normal car, in which case it doesn't take too many add ons and now you're just competing directly with low end teslas which is probably not where you want to be.The Slate Truck Will Cost $24,950 According To An Apparent Website Mistake - The Autopian
The slate EV truck price leak shows that this is the cheapest EV truck in America, and cheapest truck with a price under $25,000
$25k. Interesting idea. We’ll see how it works. I like the idea. I’m not interested in a two seat truck, but that is fine for a lot of people. Should’ve at least put a bench seat in there.
Throw the kids in the truck bed.
Flat towing an EV seems like a engineering challenge, given the nature of electric vehicles.
Should just charge the battery up really well as long as you tow it backwards.**
May be harder than it seems but all a generator is is an electric motor spun mechanically to produce a charge.
Buddy in high school had a Ford F100 with a straight six and three on the tree. Two people could literally stand on the ground between the engine and front fender well to work on it. Hit my shin on that I Beam front axle many a time.
You just have to be able to uncouple the motors from the wheels essentially. I assume that would not be that difficult of an engineering problem to figure out, but at the expense of a lot of the things that make electric motors desirable (relative simplicity; fewer points of failure and fewer systems to maintain). So you could do that for your cars when most people won't be towing their vehicle flat, or you can just let the people that would prefer to two it flat spend the extra money on a tow set up that gets two wheels off the ground one way or another.
