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Okay I would want the exterior to just be this. Sell it with this camouflage pattern on it. 
. It’s just so cute.
. It’s just so cute. 
Sign me upOkay I would want the exterior to just be this. Sell it with this camouflage pattern on it.
Scout should think about doing something like this. For new Scout owners.
One thing I was bummed about with our Bronco. My daughter and I never got to do the off-rodeo which I think would have been great for her. She did the BMW teen driver class but understanding off road would have been huge for her driving skill set
Proof that we aren’t behind in EV, battery and technology adoption, we are just working on getting the best possible EV’s to market.
I am all in on what ever makes a better, cheaper and less reliant on foreign material sourcing battery. Give it a couple years of testing, who knows this could be a good step in that direction.
I have a nagging feeling that the Slate is being positioned by Amazon to fill three very specific niches:
- Last mile deliveries from their warehouses or distributors (instead of a delivery driver using their own vehicle or a truck they either are given a slate or rent a slate, the latter allows them to hire people who may not have their own vehicle at a lower cost)
- Short distance delivery vehicles. Think about medical/auto equipment trucks that deliver stuff from shop to shop or hospital to hospital.
- Trying to fill that uhaul/home depot pickup truck rental segment
Either way, you're looking at something that has to be plugged in almost every day if its going to be a daily driver, so it makes a lot of sense as a short-distance fleet vehicle. But the fact it's a truck really limits the target audience.
- Last mile deliveries from their warehouses or distributors (instead of a delivery driver using their own vehicle or a truck they either are given a slate or rent a slate, the latter allows them to hire people who may not have their own vehicle at a lower cost)
- Short distance delivery vehicles. Think about medical/auto equipment trucks that deliver stuff from shop to shop or hospital to hospital.
- Trying to fill that uhaul/home depot pickup truck rental segment
Either way, you're looking at something that has to be plugged in almost every day if its going to be a daily driver, so it makes a lot of sense as a short-distance fleet vehicle. But the fact it's a truck really limits the target audience.
It’s so weird when some random Chevy pulls up in front of my house and it’s Amazon. And here we see lots of rented vans being used for deliveries right now. That can’t be cost effective.
I just think they're going to be too small, and at that point the rivian van seems to be a better alternative.
But I also see a lot of trucks that carry auto parts from shop to shop or medical equipment, even job site stuff. May be cost effective for those businesses.
We even have what seem to be personal vehicles with a door magnet ID delivering packages as well.
Oh they show up in personal vehicles here with no magnet ID. It’s so weird.
We do as well - and a lot of them drive down my neighbors drive instead of mine! Sometimes they even leave the packages there!
From my understanding with Amazon atleast, since I was a driver, the “rentals”, used buy their delivery partners, rarely go back but instead move to different locations until they hit a service milestone and then they get retired and sent to auction. As many “rentals” have been equipped with a Netradine, that’s how Amazon ensures drivers aren’t speeding, using a phone, running red lights or stop signs. My last year as a driver, our fleet got 20 brand new pro masters from a local Dodge dealer, they were all registered by rental companies in different states, they instead of Amazon.
Those sound like Flex drivers. It’s gig work, so people can make “quick” money. Like grub hub or uber
This is how I assumed it worked so good to know I wasn't off base. If they started using Slates it would allow Amazon to basically double dip by providing (selling) the vehicles and then being able to pay the contractors less than they would a direct employee. Ugh, I hate capitalism.
You're totally right but I'm pretty sure that was the goal from the very beginning. Every detail about this vehicle seems perfectly suited for fleet sales. Also let's not forget Slate continues to show off their cars wrapped in various fictious businesses, some with humor, but still highlighting the fleet-ness of it.
Honestly I wouldn't be surprised if a hefty chunk of their 150K reservations are actually fleet purchases.
And technically every Amazon driver is a contractor, most delivery fleets are outsourced to private companies, they borrow their Amazon vans from Amazon, it helps Amazon avoid responsibility for people driving thier logos, or take credit for them when they do something amazing, they do have some Amazon ran delivery services, but the majority are contracted out to various companies, and every year Amazon gives out big bonuses to those companies to up everyone’s pay to try and avoid unions, but the year after I started one of the other companies at our warehouse took that bonus to buy himself a cyber truck and give a select few a raise, luckily I wasn’t working for that guy.
I could also see them as campus maintenance vehicles at all levels of schools. Those guys have to haul around all sorts of random stuff and rarely leave the property, hell with them plugging in it might actually remove the main reason. And those vehicles definitely don't need all the bells and whistles.
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