Slate's New Affordable Electric Pickup Truck Will Cost Slightly More Than the Reported $24,950
www.caranddriver.com
The bare-bones Blank Slate's base price will rise to over $25,000 once its mandatory destination fee is finalized.
  • UnderpantsWeevilEnglish
    2·
    17 hours ago

    Go to the garden store, buy 20 bags of mulch

    I can’t afford a car, but I’ve got a house with a yard that needs that much mulch?

    • 🔍🦘🛎English
      1·
      2 hours ago

      I’m sorry? We have an acre that we’re converting from all grass to trees, shrubs, herbs, crops, and wildflowers.

        • 🔍🦘🛎English
          1·
          2 hours ago

          We got very lucky. A coworker was looking to get a bigger house when I started my job and we wantes to get out of an apartment. We didn’t use a realtor and paid $170k for 1200 sqft and an acre. We’re on the outskirts of a small college city so it’s fairly quiet but close enough for a 15 minute walk downtown.

      • UnderpantsWeevilEnglish
        1·
        2 hours ago

        You can get a flatbed pickup for $25k if it’s not brand new. And it does the job just as well as whatever this thing is.

        • EndlessNightmare@reddthat.comEnglish
          2·
          50 minutes ago

          So what? Should no basic, inexpensive vehicles be produced because you could get a nicer or more capable used one for a similar price?

          Also, this one is electric. Sans the Cybertruck, there aren’t too many electric pickups out there, and probably not many on the used vehicle market.

      • greyscale@lemmy.grey.oooEnglish
        13·
        9 hours ago

        People act like the home depot wont deliver, and that trailers don’t exist and that they have to daily a pickup so that they can move mulch once a year.

        My brother in christ its a codpiece for insecure people. What you need is a fiesta, rented/borrowed/shared utility trailer and a removable tow ball.

        • EndlessNightmare@reddthat.comEnglish
          2·
          54 minutes ago

          codpiece for insecure people

          Are you saying that the Slate being discussed in the article is a codpiece? I hardly think so. It’s a pretty damn basic vehicle.

        • 🔍🦘🛎English
          11·
          2 hours ago

          Delivery of heavy things is costly you know. It simply comes down to: if you’re making use of it, it’s worth it overall. Our pickup was only 35k, same price as the Subaru we’d otherwise be buying. We’re outdoorsy and we’re converting our yard from grass to trees, shrubs, and wildflowers, so a pickup is getting its mileage. If you only need this stuff a few times a year then it’s certainly not worth it. People have different needs.

            • 🔍🦘🛎English
              1·
              2 hours ago

              What has you so bent out of shape? We make use of it. It’s not even my car, it’s my wife’s. I drive an electric moped to work most of the time and my sub-SUV the four months it’s too cold. Would you rent a uhaul to go kayaking!? We drove 2.5 hours to my wife’s parents for a long weekend (Juneteenth) and brought an inflatable bed, kayaks, paddle board, and we came home with their smoker (they’re retiring and downsizing). Besides, it’s a Ford Maverick that gets 36 mpg, it’s not a massive gas guzzler.

              Drive what works for you, but what we’re doing is economical and no more environmentally unfriendly than any other car.