Slate's New Affordable Electric Pickup Truck Will Cost Slightly More Than the Reported $24,950
www.caranddriver.com
The bare-bones Blank Slate's base price will rise to over $25,000 once its mandatory destination fee is finalized.
  • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
    341·
    18 hours ago

    Never mind the low price, not having that shit built in is the killer feature for me, making it the only new car I would even consider buying. (It’s just too bad they won’t have a 4x4 version for another couple of years.)

    It is kinda good that there’s an optional module available, though, because it means there’s an interface that, in theory, a third-party module running Free Software could hook into.

    • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      3 hours ago

      You don’t need 4 wheel drive with an EV truck, the weight is properly distributed between the 4 wheels, not like stupid pickups that put all the weight over the wrong drive wheels.

      • bluGill@fedia.io
        3·
        1 hour ago

        A pickup is supposed to be used such that the weight is properly loaded. If you don’t have the back full of firewood or something else anyway you are doing it wrong.

        Then again if you don’t have a full 8 foot bed you are doing it wrong, and those are almost impossible to buy.

    • Adulated_Aspersion@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      14 hours ago

      because it means there’s an interface that, in theory, a third-party module running Free Software could hook into

      Absolutely this!