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cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/c/electricvehicles/p/2162853/usa-slate-s-new-electric-truck-will-cost-slightly-more-than-24950

Range is said to be 205 mi (330 km), higher than the original estimate. This price is for the basic truck. The SUV configuration is expected to be $5000 more.

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[–] Canajan@piefed.ca 9 points 1 day ago (4 children)

For the life of me I don’t know why we don’t develop something like this in Canada. It’s so frustrating, we have the people, the manufacturing space, the materials, we could do this.

Whenever something about Canada making vehicles gets brought up, all the nay sayers climb on immediately saying how it can’t be done. I’m sick and tired of them. Nothing worth doing comes easy, if left to these naysayers we’d all be still living in squalor.

We need to move away from the U.S. entanglement, the American public can’t be trusted to elect a proper government.

Building our own low cost, modest feature vehicles would be an excellent start. How many features of a car do people use for a normal commute to work, or such? I’d love a truck like the Slate, except it has to have 4 wheel drive ability. After having Hondas with all wheel drive, I’ll never go back to an older 2 wheel drive vehicle.

[–] CADmonkey@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

Ive had TWO vehicles that were manufactured in Canada. They were both fine. What weirdos are saying canada cant build cars?

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 hours ago

We don't do R&D in Canada. All we do is assemble shitty vehicles for export.

4WD is unnecessary if you use proper winter tires.

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 3 points 20 hours ago

Before the current political chaos, you would have made a mint. A little ingenuity and affordable value, along with the worlds second biggest car market next door would have been huge

[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

100000000% agree