As Canadian...
American company?, nope
Owned by Bezos?, hell nah
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I'm interested, despite Bezos' involvement, but I'm going to wait until I can read up on what it's like to own one for a while.
Rule of thumb...never buy a new model from a legacy automaker. A new model from a new company? Talk to me in 10 years.
That's about how I feel too. Worth considering. My hesitation was reinforced, perhaps unfairly, at a prototype/mockup event. It wasn't very long ago, and prototype had a little too much slap-together feel. I know it was just a prototype, but I was hoping for something that looked a little closer to 'ready for production' if not exactly 'finished'.
New factory, new build methodology, new employees. I'm going to need about a year of consumer feedback, personally. But I'm glad there are more intrepid souls ready to buy now.
The modular approach is very appealing to me, even though I have little use for a pickup truck. For example, I read that the SUV configuration moves the back glass to the end of the SUV shell when you install it. That makes the SUV top lighter and cheaper.
Oh, that explains why the fastback is more expensive than the squareback. I'd been wondering about that.
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~~Owned~~ directly funded by Bozos who will gain majority the moment it is opportunistic
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I just looked it up and he's just an investor, not the owner.
He's still involved with the company though but I wanted to clear that up so we aren't accidentally spreading misinformation 👍
Since when are investors not owners?
Yes but the company is Amazon through and through, its being led by ex-Amazonians
Someone else posted this link in this thread:
https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/08/inside-the-ev-startup-secretly-backed-by-jeff-bezos/
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Yup. No thanks.
No it isn't.
Fixed for those that don't understand these are basically the same
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However, this price doesn't include the destination and delivery fee that's baked into the cost of every new vehicle because it has not yet been finalized.
I've always wanted to go electric but the tracking in modern cars was a nonstarter for me. This is a huge step in the right direction, thank you for sharing!
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I think it's pretty cool but honestly it's too expensive. It is so minimalistic I doubt many people will want it in it's basic form called the "Blank Slate." Everything is essentially a la carte and many of those upgrades are only available as a kit for the owner to install. For instance, there is no sound system, no power windows, no power mirrors. It's one color. It can't go over 90mph. I like this kind of thing personally, but I think normal car buyers will be a bit upset when they find out all the extras add up to the same price as a Chevy Bolt.
Nah, this is exactly what we want
Maybe I'm wrong, but their website makes it seem like whatever add-ons you add at time of purchase they will install for you. I was also under the impression that there's only one stretch of road in the US that has an 85mph speed limit and everything else is lower, so being capped at 90 isn't exactly a problem.
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This looks really promising. I never drive more than 30 miles a day outside of a couple of annual road trips. I’ll have to see a video of what the SUV config looks like as I have kids but this would probably work for my lifestyle. It’s a rarity that I have to drive anywhere outside of my town.
That's my driving pattern too. Probably averaging <5mi since I don't drive most days, but yeah, 30 is as far as I'm likely to go when not on a trip.
You might also want to check out the Telo truck. It's a little more biased toward passenger space. It has 4 doors and a bed in the footprint of a Mini.
I wish the Telo was a bit more modular like the Slate design, with easily replaceable parts. And currently their rear glass is structural, so you can only remove the lower part of that rear partition when you put a shell over the bed, making it less like a normal SUV. I am also a bit more nervous about their viability/capitalization. Will they be around for a decade or more? Hope so, but not sure.
Telo is still vapor.
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