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Most trucks have zero reason to be as big as they are.
Slate has been getting a shit ton of advertisements for just starting out and they seem suspect. But something that size with a hot swap battery would sell very well.
But Slate also swaps between a small "kei truck", cargo van, "SUV", and hatchback.
It's all modular kits attached to the base truck.
They don't have hot swap batteries tho.
Bezos can pay for a lot of publicity.
Are you getting your billionaires confused? That’s easy. They’re all reprehensible in one way or another.
I don't think so?
https://www.foxnews.com/tech/jeff-bezos-backs-radical-20000-small-electric-pickup-truck
Ah. Thanks!
Most trucks are the size they are because US fuel economy standards scale inversely with the size of the vehicle. It's hard to make a 45mpg small truck, but large trucks only need to hit 22mpg so poof, all your trucks are now big trucks.
It's not just that, they literally get bigger every year because it's a figurative dick measuring contest.
They didn't just hit that limit and stop, they continue to get larger
Removable batteries aren't going to happen. The extra mechanical parts needed to make it happen take up space that could be more battery. This isn't a couple of AA batts, here; the voltage and weight mean everything has to be chonky.
Doubly so for a company like Slate that wants to keep things cheap. They need to pick existing parts off the shelf as much as possible. Removable EV battery parts don't exist.