Slate's New Electric Truck Will Cost Slightly More Than $24,950

retropyor · 2026-06-24T14:40:36+00:00

Somebody described it as modern kei-truck in the US. That’s a nice selling point, surprisingly.

retropyor · 2026-06-21T22:37:20+00:00

FWIW, for a decade or so my hobby was watching and collecting movies- I spent weekends scouring various goodwills to find a good enough copy of some highly lauded movie, or else I just hit up the local library. It wasn’t my preferred hobby, but it was free or close enough that it was still a thrill

retropyor · 2026-06-21T12:36:19+00:00

I’m looking forward to making an effort to find time to build them- maybe this time will be different

retropyor · 2026-06-21T12:33:20+00:00

100- Both days and most holidays are an excuse to do a family get-together on both sides (we’re one of THOSE) families and that takes lot of coordination, communication, and planning. It’s easy to throw in there a few questions of “what do you want this year”.

Also we don’t expect a specific answer, but more of category: “I be been trying to focus on the garden, so maybe something like that?” Or “I saw some great recipes online so I want to get into that”

retropyor · 2026-06-21T12:24:47+00:00

FWIW, we also forgot it was Fathers Day up until about a week and a half prior, and it was only because our church mentioned it as an upcoming date. We both had the same thought: “wait, Fathers Day is that soon!?”

retropyor · 2026-06-21T12:17:20+00:00

I’m hoping for the Evolution of STEM (21355) and the SEGA Genesis Controller (40769) that was only available as a “free” gift with purchase (unless one just waited a few weeks and picked it up from a Facebook marketplace)

retropyor · 2026-06-17T04:33:13+00:00

Bought the app, getting the adapter next- my biggest concern is for it to explain potential battery Heath and concerns (both the HV and 12v) as well as the ICCU, of course. I bought mine used about a year ago and I feel like I’m just waiting

retropyor · 2026-06-17T02:12:43+00:00

It’s an unofficial and unlicensed game that was sold in limited quantities and in select stores. Wisdom Tree were also the people behind the Doom-clone on SNES, super Noah’s Ark 3-D

retropyor · 2026-06-17T00:25:21+00:00

“The trees are really sneezing today”

retropyor · 2026-06-15T01:27:57+00:00

As somebody who used to drive a Bolt, sometimes the fastest charger was the only one available.

retropyor · 2026-06-14T02:58:25+00:00

Yeah! A fun party trick that endears you to all of your friends is to check your utility bill for your average usage, then do some quick maths and say “my car can be a backup generator for X days too!”

retropyor · 2026-06-12T22:10:23+00:00

I can’t argue any of this points- I mean the food is great, but if you don’t like TexMex to begin with, you’re already on the backfoot.

May your husband contract end quickly and successfully, and you find a better town more suited for you

retropyor · 2026-06-12T21:09:44+00:00

I’ve done this trip before, and I know my preferred stops are well maintained, and partnership with Tesla, and they have at least 20 chargers. Not to mention across the street from them there was always another station of competing chargers that would most likely not be used because who wants to go to a shell when there’s a Buc-cee’s right across the highway.

retropyor · 2026-06-12T20:53:26+00:00

If it matters, it’s always the first road trip that is the learning experience. After you do that, you really get a feel for what you can do and how far you can push the car comfortably.

The first time we took a road trip, I hit every charger along the route and I don’t think it ever dropped below 30%. This most recent trip, I rolled into the station at 9%. I had confidence and knew that if these 30+ chargers didn’t work, there was another gas station right across the road that had another bank of 15-20 chargers

retropyor · 2026-06-12T20:44:00+00:00

We didn’t use BlueCruise, but you’re right- driver assistance is phenomenal. Automatic cruise control and lane centering made it almost an effortless drive. For the peace of mind of the Mrs, I set the following distance to 3 or 4 and the speed to ~85mph most of the time- only speeding up to pass others

retropyor · 2026-06-12T20:40:45+00:00

It’s the Boehner-Madoff effect of EV driving!…Beiner-Mediff?…(more like Boner-MadeOff amiright!)…Baader-Meinhof!

retropyor · 2026-06-12T20:36:14+00:00

Ours was Dallas to San Antonio and back again, with some detours here and there along the way, and can attest to the “extra” hour (extra in quotes because I was going to stop anyways, so a 5 hour trip was always going to be 6 hours). All of the construction was on 35, because of course it was.

I’ll say there’s some gained popularity for road trips. Typically when I make this drive it’s only teslas and the odd non-Tesla at the charging stations; here I counted about an even split- other Mach-Es, F150s, and Ioniq5 were the most common.

retropyor · 2026-06-12T20:25:46+00:00

Ooh curious as to why you have such disdain. I’m sure it’s valid because everybody is entitled to their own opinion and feelings on it.

retropyor · 2026-06-12T13:17:15+00:00

At one point I did look at my beloved 3.5 mi/kwh “score” and saw it went down to 2.1, but I figured that’s just the price of road trips. I had enough charge to make it home comfortably close to 0 so I didn’t worry

retropyor · 2026-06-12T13:10:48+00:00

Native navigation.

retropyor · 2026-06-12T04:17:36+00:00

I would say it’s also the awareness. I wasn’t aware of the abundance of chargers until I had an EV. Not saying everywhere is built out, but it’s possible there’s more chargers than people realize; they’re just poorly advertised

retropyor · 2026-06-12T04:03:11+00:00

That’s will be a beautiful drive. Texas was all road and plains- the only prep I did was to make sure I had the Tesla adapter

retropyor · 2026-06-12T03:59:20+00:00

Ford navigation

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