Comment on Slate Truck is a $20,000 American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, and no touchscreen
AndrasKrigare@beehaw.org 4 weeks agoAlso, the “(after federal incentives)” is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. The basic option for the 2023 Bolt comes out to about $20K after federal incentives, but you get way more range and a bunch of those “luxury” features this is missing. Considering how cheap low-end smart phones are, I have a hard time imagining that infotainment systems actually add more than 1-2% of the cost of the vehicle. Feels more like a type of virtue signal than a real cost-saving measure.
Powderhorn@beehaw.org 4 weeks ago
Your vehicle not being yet another surveillance vector can be a selling point.
AndrasKrigare@beehaw.org 4 weeks ago
I mean, I guess, but that’s only a selling point to the small number of people without smartphones, which isn’t a large enough group to make it a sound business strategy.