I sure hope so. Right now the car market is absolutely terrible. Either you pay top dollar for a brand-new car or you buy a used car that's also top dollar. And it doesn't seem to make much of a difference if it's an EV or not. The Slate is one of the few vehicles that turns my head. I'm sure I'll never buy one, but I also feel like I wouldn't buy anything else on the market right now either.
it's amazing how inflated car pricing is. idk how so many people can afford them, new or used. must be credit. Americans are awash in debt, personally and as a country. the spiral downward is dizzying
I'm riding my bike a whole lot more. I'm going to work exclusively by bike. I hope I don't get ran over. But I do use my helmet and a fluorescent yellow/orange reflective vest. I'm looking to install a S.O.N. before the days start getting too short. I got one on my wife's bike and it has worked great for several years now.
What Slate needs to offer is the same truth with a basic 4 cylinder ICE non turbo with a pogt injected intake. Also either a manual, non CVT and a non dual clutch transmission with a real torque converter. Now, I would buy one.
No problem. My BMW i3-REx had a built-in, 25 kWh generator. No transmission needed. Too early to tell but you might add your own generator for the bed and hack a back door charge circuit to the battery-motor buss. Since they claim a 200 mi range, I wouldn’t bother. Bob Wilson
Yeah, sadly the manual transmission is slowly becoming a thing of the past. I don't foresee many future cars getting a manual transmission and those that get one will likely be on more expensive models or trims, much like the GR Corolla. But I hear you. I loved driving a stick shift. Now driving is one thing, a chore. I guess the good thing is that now I do not own a manual transmission I've come to the realization that cars are only a tool. And at times there are better options than owning or driving a car. If my current car reaches the point it costs too much, or is impossible to keep on the road then I'll just try to figure out what's the next transportation tool that makes the most sense.
Seeing how there's one person in the world, named @Georgina Rudkus who'd buy on new, and one other, me, who'd wait for that one truck to become a used truck and then want to buy it, I'd say no, it wouldn't cover the costs. People buy vehicles to show off. It's a status symbol. A simple truck with a stick shift means you're on the bottom of the barrel in society's view. So very few would ever sell. This is why we don't have econo cars anymore. Sure, people (like me) complain, but then we'd never actually buy a new econo car, because we wait for someone else to buy one and hope to get one used when it's cheaper. But then the manufacturer doesn't sell enough and the car gets canceled in the USA. As a result, we used car buyers are stuck with ugly crossovers that are in many ways the exact opposite of what we want. But beggars can't be choosers. And it's a car, it gets you from point A to point B. That's all that matters.
