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The Slate truck website has a little thing to customize one (ostensibly to get you to pre-order it) but I just treated it like a fun picrew

That said, yeah, I WOULD drive this

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I wasn't sure what I was gonna do with it until I saw the orange stripe design for the side and then it all clicked into place

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The one issue I have with these trucks is they have no integrated radio head unit. I understand why, it's an easy cost saver and most people use their phones anyway, but like. You gotta have a radio.

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They're marketing this these as being extremely customizable tho so I wouldn't be surprised if one of those dash panels could come off and you could plonk a head unit in there

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@coriander radios can interfere with the electronics of electric vehicles if you don’t do them right and a lot of EV manufacturers do not care enough to do them right and would rather leave out the radio

tedium.co/2023/12/08/am-radio-

Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet.Why AM Radios Have Beef With The Electric CarThe electric vehicle finds itself in the middle of the big debate over the future of AM radio. Could the AM dial get pushed off to the side?
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@Lady Oh that's fascinating, I had no idea

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@coriander i think the problem is mostly just interference on the radio side and not anything on the engine side but i am not an electrical engineer

@Lady Either way it is an interesting thing I was entirely unaware of