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1 posted on 04/24/2025 9:52:00 PM PDT by Red Badger
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I like the concept ...if it wasn’t electric.


2 posted on 04/24/2025 10:11:44 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustmilents offered here free of charge)
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I am not at the moment enamored by its looks or size.

Plus, only 2-door? Nowadays?

Its like the smaller Bronco II, but even smaller than that.


4 posted on 04/24/2025 10:25:23 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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My wife’s Nissan Rouge will give me about 35 miles per gallon efficiency and is not electric. My Ram 1500 will go 500 miles at 19.5 miles per gallon and is not electric. That is both combined city and open road. I would never consider an electric vehicle for long trips due to recharge times and costs. Oddly if I had a daily commute to work of less than fifty miles and a vehicle that could fully recharge on my home 220 voltage it might be logical.


5 posted on 04/24/2025 10:27:06 PM PDT by cpdiii (cane cutter, deckhand, oilfield roughneck, drilling fluid tech, geologist, pilot, pharmacist ,MAGA)
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Bezos has gone after Musk in Space and in EVs and lost every time.
Blue Origin has yet to put any human or satellite in orbit, even as Musk's SpaceX has put over 7,000 sateites into orbit and regularly puts astronauts into the Space station in orbit.
Bezos has Kuiper which is supposed to take on Musk's Starlink. That is not even going to be a real fight. Musk will crush them with one hand tied behind his back.
In EV’s Bezos backed Rivian by putting $700 million into Rivian in 2019.
Needless to say Tesla is crushing Rivian too in sales, profis, market cap etc. This new Bezos EV company will get nowhere. EVs have too much competition.
6 posted on 04/24/2025 10:35:59 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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In five years, it will still be making suborbital flights to the end of the street and back. Another five years and it will make orbital flights around the block.


7 posted on 04/24/2025 10:48:14 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“Diversity is our Strength” just doesn’t carry the same message as “Death from Above”)
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It looks like offspring of Yugo and a Cyber Truck.


8 posted on 04/24/2025 10:53:46 PM PDT by Nachoman (Proudly oppressing people of color since 1957.)
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can’t tell us the real price ? gutless...


9 posted on 04/24/2025 11:06:13 PM PDT by stylin19a ("Artillery Brings Dignity to What Would Otherwise Be Just A Vulgar Brawl" )
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$20K? I doubt it.
How many waivers will it need to meet safety standards?
With gas below $2 by ‘26 who will buy it?


11 posted on 04/24/2025 11:25:42 PM PDT by O6ret
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Looks like a transformed toy Autobot.


13 posted on 04/24/2025 11:27:11 PM PDT by Ciaphas Cain
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Trump/Congress need to cut the subsidies, this is ridiculous. Paging DOGE...


14 posted on 04/24/2025 11:37:30 PM PDT by EnderWiggin1970
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Hmmmm….
“Slate Auto will build a factory somewhere…”


16 posted on 04/25/2025 12:46:52 AM PDT by lefty-lie-spy (Stay Metal)
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If it works as good as his space ships last flight . . .


17 posted on 04/25/2025 1:40:10 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again," )
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A truck bed that short and small is almost useless, why even call it a truck when it won’t be ‘trucking’ much of anything?


18 posted on 04/25/2025 1:45:03 AM PDT by Bullish (I've never seen such morons... Have you?)
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Also available in SUV configuration.


19 posted on 04/25/2025 1:48:10 AM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism. )
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“ Slate Auto’s new vehicle is designed to make EVs more accessible by making most features optional add-ons.”

Add-ons. Like turn signals? Sure, why not; they seem to be an optional add-on on BMW’s and Teslas judging from what I experience on our highways and surface roads.


21 posted on 04/25/2025 2:48:42 AM PDT by normbal (normbal. somewhere in socialist occupied America, MAGA/MAHA rising.)
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Kinda looks like what the Tacoma used to be, but isn’t any longer.


22 posted on 04/25/2025 2:58:18 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Kamala defines herself in just 4 words..."Nothing comes to mind.")
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I read the headline quickly and thought it said, ... new combustible EV truck.


23 posted on 04/25/2025 3:15:01 AM PDT by KingLudd
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(Some car parts will still have to be purchased from abroad because they are not made domestically at all—like the manual window cranks.)

That would be one of the easiest things to tool up for.

24 posted on 04/25/2025 3:31:23 AM PDT by Pollard (Zone 6b)
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25 posted on 04/25/2025 3:36:01 AM PDT by Pollard (Zone 6b)
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Ford will likely sue.. the SUV looks like a chinese knock off of the bronco.

and ford loves to sue.


33 posted on 04/25/2025 4:55:32 AM PDT by cableguymn (Can't cancel all of us)
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