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>The driving and ownership experience of electric vehicles is MUCH better Until EVs solve the cost problem as well as the "tracking device" and the "I have 8 i
by everdrive 10mo ago
>The driving and ownership experience of electric vehicles is MUCH better
Until EVs solve the cost problem as well as the "tracking device" and the "I have 8 iPads built into the dash" problems I'm not very excited.
The Slate looks pretty exciting in this regard but I'm worried it will ever exist, or if it will fall badly short of cost estimates. It's already slipped to ~$27.5k due to the expiration of the EV tax credit. In practice, whenever a car says "starting at $xx it's usually impossible to find that model and you can only get the midrange models which are $5-$10k more than the base price.
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Interestingly as well, the Slate sidesteps the towing problem by refusing to attempt to tow. It's rated to tow 1,000 lbs, which is effectively nothing. It's still got a respectable payload, though, so it does work as a truck.
- pavel_lishin 10mo ago> Until EVs solve the cost problem as well as the "tracking device" and the "I have 8 iPads built into the dash" problems I'm not very excited. Are these problems exclusive to EVs?
- dabluecaboose 10mo agoThe problem isn't exclusive to EVs, but thus far EVs are exclusively aforementioned rolling iPads. With ICE cars, at least you still have the (dwindling) option of buying an older vehicle
- everdrive 10mo agoYes. For ICE cars I can just buy older cars. _Some_ modern ICE cars avoid this. As recently as 2024 the Nissan Frontier base model has no cellular modem, and also only has one small screen but otherwise has physical buttons and physical gauges. The Slate would be the only EV coming out that avoids this problem, which combined with the price is one of the reasons I'm interested.
- bluGill 10mo agoYou can buy an old ICE and convert to electric. At this point most ICE that isn't a tracking device is old enough that you need to be comfortable doing your own maintenance anyway so the effort of the above is no longer an excuse.
- bdcravens 10mo agoNo, but I believe that EVs tend to have way more bells and whistles to create some perceived value due to the inherently higher cost.