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    Range extender - please adjust spec to 250 miles of EV Range

    I think I saw somewhere 15gal for the fuel tank which puts this closer to 23.33... MPG. I'm still waiting for the official number like everyone else though.
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    Range extender - please adjust spec to 250 miles of EV Range

    I calculated 23.33 MPG based on whatever numbers I could find.
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    Externally configurable buttons

    If I were doing it, I'd just implement a long press, or a double click function on an existing button. Adding hardware, just creates more things to break over time.
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    Slate Truck Methodology

    That would be worth every penny.
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    Slate Truck Methodology

    I think you're saying it better than me. Simple and basic can be good. Shoddy and corner-cutting is bad. I'll still have my eye on slate, but the Scout is the one I'm more interested in long term.
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    Slate Truck Methodology

    Haha, I'm getting the scout for the opposite reason, to collapse my responsible vehicles (Landcruiser and Prius) into one so that I can spend my mid-life-crisis bucks/energy on something dumber (probably a Cayman). The Slate has my interest because I work with vetronics, and it sounds like a...
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    Slate Truck Methodology

    I don't think we differ at all. I just worded whatever I said poorly. Slate has good ideas, simple base model with the lowest price they can pull off, and additions that will make it better. The scout is a completely different class vehicle. An example of what I'm trying to say might be...
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    Slate Truck Methodology

    Hopefully Scout will take the good ideas from the Slate concept and make them their own (simplicity and price being key. The fewer things to break the better). This is the problem with announcing a vehicle years before it's fully baked. It's basically going to be old news by the time orders...
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    How about a cheap version that i can actually take offroad

    Oh yeah, that slate truck has a 150kw motor, which is about 200hp. The problem with EV's without selectable gearing is that you can't just go into a lower gear and get there slower. You either have the umph or you don't. If they made a front motor kit for the slate, you might be able to tow...
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    How about a cheap version that i can actually take offroad

    I have concerns that I might end up with a scout and the slate... All of that is dependent on how modifiable the slate actually is.
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    How about a cheap version that i can actually take offroad

    To the point of this original post. Yeah, if this scout stands the test of time, the one with the harvester is exactly what you want. Just as an older car when the price goes down.
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    [Terra] Heat ducts in the bed

    I'm with you on this. I kind of want the minimum number of things built into the truck that can break.
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    Range extender - please adjust spec to 250 miles of EV Range

    Does this sound about right? compare that to a Jeep Wrangler that gets 14 MPG. Traveling 500 miles would consume 35.71 Gallons of fuel and cost $142.86 dollars. The funny thing about all this is, we already know it does worse than a small car, and better than a truck. It might be inline with...
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    Range extender - please adjust spec to 250 miles of EV Range

    While I was playing with those numbers, I added some comparisons for other vehicles. This is for a 500 mile trip starting from a place where electricity costs $0.13 per kWh. P.S. If anyone wants to add their known MPG into the list, I'm happy to add it for additional context. all I need is a...
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    Range extender - please adjust spec to 250 miles of EV Range

    I punched in those numbers for comparison: and got this for costs on that the same 40 mile trip that I mentioned in the last post (notice this estimates your fuel economy closer to 42MPG) In a scout (with harvester) that same 40 miles in your location should look something more like: and...
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