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Slate, a customizable EV pickup for $20k (electrek.co)
submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by paequ2@lemmy.today to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Range

  • Small battery range: 240km
  • Big battery range: 385km

Motor

  • Motor: Single motor, rear wheel drive
  • Power: 150kW
  • Torque: 264Nm
  • 0-100km: 8s
  • Top speed: 145km/h

Dimensions

  • Bed length: 1.5m
  • Vehicle length: 4.4m
  • Vehicle height: 1.8m
  • Vehicle width: 1.8m

Comparison

  • 2025 Kia Niro length: 4.4m
  • 2025 Ford Maverick length: 5.1m
  • 1985 Toyota Pickup/Hilux length: 4.7m

Weights

  • Curb weight 1634kg
  • Max payload 650kg
  • Max towing 454kg

Charging

  • Port: NACS
  • Onboard charger: 11kW
  • Level 1 AC, 3.6kw, 20-100%: 11h
  • Level 2 AC, 11kW, 20-100%: under 5h
  • Level 3 DC, 120kW, 20-80%: under 30m

Safety

  • Traction Control
  • Electronic Stability Control
  • Forward Collision Warning
  • Automatic Emergency Braking
  • 2-stage Driver/Passenger Airbags
  • Full Length Side Curtain Airbags (Truck 2) (SUV 4)
  • Seat Side Airbags (2)
  • Backup Camera
  • Pedestrian Identification
  • Auto High Beam

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[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

150kWatt and a top speed of 145? That's kind of insane?

Wait a minute, mph not km/h I guess.

[–] paequ2@lemmy.today 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, 145km/h might be a liiitle under powered. I drive between 120km/h to 130km/h on the US interstates.

[–] CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

How are you doing kph in the US?

[–] paequ2@lemmy.today 1 points 2 minutes ago

Every car I've owned has had a way to change the speedometer from freedom units to ✨ metric ✨ .

For knowing what speed I should be going, I roughly follow these numbers. (Note, these are not equivalent.)

  • 35mph -> 50km/h
  • 60mph -> 100km/h
  • 70mph ->110km/h

Also, very roughly 10km ≈ 5mi.

However, most of the time I just follow the flow of traffic.

I voluntarily switched to metric like 10 years ago, so meters, celsius, grams, etc make more sense to me now.

[–] SpiceDealer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Squinting your eyes on the smaller numbers on the speedometer. I do it all the time!

[–] coronach@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Be careful, you might get pulled over for doing kph instead of mph in the US.

[–] SpiceDealer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 days ago

No imperialist (system) is going to stop me!

[–] CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

So you're saying your car is able to use mph when in the US? Fancy car!

Btw, I was trying to make a joke about mph being some different kind of "fuel" that's not compatible with kph, in case that wasn't clear.