"Slate Auto's big bet is that Americans, fed up with overly complicated, $50,000 vehicles, are clamoring for a more basic and affordable way to get around. The culmination of that theory is the Slate truck, a two-door electric pickup with manual windows, no radio and 150 miles of driving rangeplus hundreds of customization options to spruce things up. Whether or not buyers will bite hinges on the Slate truck's ultimate price tagand that's still a question mark."
"The Slate truck is extremely basic in its Blank Slate configuration. Photo by: InsideEVs "We're still having discussions on that," she said on the sidelines of the BloombergNEF Summit in San Francisco. "We're still working really closely with our suppliers to see what opportunities we have to continue to bring costs down, to see what we can do to pass along to the customer before we announce final pricing.""
"The company says it's targeting a "mid-twenties" price for the Blank Slate, its name for a truck without any accessories. When Slate first came out of stealth in April of last year, it pitched a price of under $20,000 after federal incentives. That suggested a maximum MSRP of $27,499, since the EV tax credit (RIP) was worth $7,500."
Slate Auto is developing a two-door electric pickup designed to be intentionally basic, featuring manual windows, no radio, roughly 150 miles of range in the base configuration, and hundreds of optional add-ons. The company markets a Blank Slate trim as the minimal version and targets a mid-$20,000 starting price, though the final MSRP has not been set. Earlier projections pitched pricing under $20,000 after federal incentives, implying up to a $27,499 MSRP. Available add-ons include vinyl wraps, new wheels, a kit converting the truck into a five-seat SUV for about $5,000, and an optional larger battery with pricing still to be determined.
Read at insideevs.com
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