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But it will be a real vehicle made by a real company with things like a ‘radio’
I put a deposit down on one when they were first announced. But that was when its price was competitive with cheap used EVs. Then accepting the stripped down bare bones truck made sense. This is too close to new EV pricing. Bolt, Leaf, Ford EV are all within range of this, especially with an option or two to make it livable. Plus at $25k you’re now competing with very clean used examples of the Hyundai triplets and mustang Mach e.
Best of luck, Slate, but to me the truck doesn’t justify its price.
That's a bad thing, because "radio" these days implies "spying and enshittification."
Slate is the only EV on the entire market that isn't fucked with that deal-breaker.
CarPlay isn’t enshittification
CarPlay itself, perhaps not. The telemetry, ads, annoying safety nagging, and sometimes even paywalled vehicle features that tend to be implemented alongside it (because the underlying computerization facilitates both the good and the bad) is, though.
None of your comparators are a truck though, if just looking for an EV I agree with you.
A truck is not needed by a lot of people, but when you need one, you need one.
The upcoming ford ev truck is absolutely a truck, and a Ford truck, not some plastic startup
Im planning on waiting 5 years to see if it will become a thing and be well supported. Ive been burned by experimental tech before. But I hope to see more of these kind of projects pop up in the future.