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[–] 30 points 1 month ago (8 children)

Thanks to President Trump’s leadership, we have finally ended the illegal mandate that forced automakers to produce more expensive electric vehicles that American families didn’t want,” Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy said in a statement touting vehicle affordability, vehicle safety and investment in American auto workers.

Damn straight! If my car or truck ain't big, loud, inefficient, polluting and running exclusively on completely nonrenewable, expensive to refine, 100 million year old fossil goo, I ain't interested! Who cares if only less than 25% of the energy contained in a tank of gas is actually used to move my car, while the other 75%+ is totally wasted as heat. Efficiency is for nerds.

Seriously, though, I really don't want an expensive EV. I want an affordable EV. We need more of those.

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  • [–] [S] 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (7 children)

    Same, I'd like to not have to pay 50K+ for EV sedan and 100K+ for a giant, extra heavy EV truck that can't haul shit, then again, I can't even find a decent ICE small truck in the US that isn't geared toward pavement princess drivers.

    I was looking at the new Slate truck and that at least looks somewhat promising but I'm not exactly holding breath given how these new EV companies operate and wish they'd offer a long bed for lumber.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    I was looking at the new Slate truck and that at least looks somewhat promising

    Yeah, the Slate is interesting. The fact that it doesn't have a massive infotainment screen is itself enough to keep me intrigued. I'm not an early adopter, though. I'm going to see how their first model run goes, at least.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (1 child)

    New vehicle from a new company -hard pass. Even legacy makers can't seem to make a reliable new model.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    I too feel similarly, but electric engines aren’t exactly new tech. Idk what battery composition they’re using but that’s probably the only iffy part to me if they are innovating anything there

    If the base model is truly simple, it’s probably gonna be an alright product

    We’ll see though, totally conjecture on my part

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Bezos is a investor in the company but not in charge of the company.

    From: wikipedia

    Slate raised at least $111 million in Series A financing, including an undisclosed amount from Bezos. Slate then raised $600 million in 2024 from Mark Walter, the controlling owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers and CEO of Guggenheim Partners, Jeff Bezos, and General Catalyst, a venture capital firm.[5] In mid-2026, the company said it had completed a $650m series C investment round, which took its total capital raised to $1.4bn.[6]

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