I have no idea, but good thinking!

it will be relatively easy to replace the body panels on this truck

IDK, if they’re injection molded plastic then it kinda seems like the only way to get major damage repaired is to buy a replacement from Slate Auto. You can’t just visit the junkyard and start cutting material to weld on for patches.

Slate Auto will have a monopoly in addition to having a more expensive manufacturing process. Going with plastic panels means they need less capital to build the factory, but it also means the panels will take longer to produce. Stamping sheet metal can be done fast and cheap, but the machines to do that have a higher up front cost.

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some might like the style, but you’re right, a lot of people who buy trucks just want a pavement princess

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Headline is misleading and assumes the government is going to subsidize production. The initial, and likely optimistic price is $28k.

How much will the 240 mile extended range battery cost? That’s going to be just about mandatory to make the thing useful. You don’t typically fast charge past 80%, and start looking for a charger when you get down to 25%, so the effective range of the 150 mile battery is actually only 83 miles (150 * 0.55).

That aesthetic, of highlighting rather than hiding battle scars, is key to the Slate ethos.

I wonder how the owners will feel about the scars on their truck when a plastic body panel cracks and they need to caulk it back together?

I wonder if its a product of colliding galaxies?

That’s fair.

People like that will say “just block them” with one fork of their tongue, and then “sort it out through discussion and voting” with the other fork.

Building cars in “Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game” and then exporting them to BeamNG.Drive is the most fun I’ve had sim racing. Automation really lets you dive deep into the nuts and bolts.

This.

Also, look at the attic, check for roof leaks and adequate ventilation. Make sure your soffit vents aren’t clogged, and the soffit baffles and ridge vent have actually been installed properly.

Doubt.

Innovation comes from people who are not content to put all of their energy into trying to be the most mediocre.

Most people want to be normal, and in a low tech society, the ones who view statistical averageness as some kind of virtue will be exposed to different creative norm-breakers depending on geographic location. This results in diversity among normie cliques - while they’re each competing to see who can be the most mid, their definitions of mid will be different.

Even if the kind of humans that have the desire to be seen as normal were to all form a singular herd, the source of their previous diversity will remain. People who don’t actively mold themselves to become statistically average will still be here, setting trends, attracting followers and haters.

Its likely that OP’s author doesn’t see things that way because they’re in the camp that views conformity and the mediocre as virtuous.

who seeks glory

Aviassembly.

Its fun in the way that building airplanes in KSP is fun. The game is small, and the physics are simple, but for $10 its a good value.

you can balloon the box out a ways to get more volume

that number needs 2 more zeros

You dig.

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There’s a lot of state sponsored propaganda from right wing, authoritarian countries that pay lip-service to popular communist ideas to keep the dictator in power.

A lot of the noise comes from just a few of the users, so for the moment its easy enough to just block them all.

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