I’m really curious to see what happens with the Slate truck. The price keeps ballooning to the point that I don’t think consumers will be able to afford it over an econobox, but an electrified 1990s Ford Ranger is exactly what would give me the most utility from a vehicle. It goes further and hauls more than my cargo bike without any extra shit that will break, while having more safety features than a kei truck that can’t drive well on the roads I would need it to.
Outside of a BYD at half the price, it’s the only vehicle I could see myself buying. Either I get a really nice car at a nice ebike price or a purely practical car at an econobox price. Otherwise it makes infinitely more sense to wait for solid-state batteries to proliferate outside of Chinese models so I don’t have to deal with any of the drawbacks to EVs.
wake up, look at the sports score, my team lost 0:2