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[Neil Nelson]

Here comes this annoying moron again.

Try to give an informed argument. For example, why am I an annoying moron?

 

[atx_ev]

Try to give an informed argument. For example, why am I an annoying moron?

Slate said under 20K with the federal tax credit. You then take it as law that it is 27,500.
Then after the vote to cancel the EV credit, slate said mid 20s and didnt correct an interviewer when they said 25K, you ignore that.

We have multiple posters doggedly hanging on to 27,500 without acknowledging concrete statements of mid 20s and not contradicting 25K in an interview.

I wouldnt be surprised if it was 30K, but at this point, the best current info is around 25K.

 

[Adam W]

Does every thread need to deteriorate into a pissing match about price?

 

[Neil Nelson]

Slate said under 20K with the federal tax credit. You then take it as law that it is 27,500.
Then after the vote to cancel the EV credit, slate said mid 20s and didnt correct an interviewer when they said 25K, you ignore that.

We have multiple posters doggedly hanging on to 27,500 without acknowledging concrete statements of mid 20s and not contradicting 25K in an interview.

I wouldnt be surprised if it was 30K, but at this point, the best current info is around 25K.

I do not think that qualifies me as an annoying moron. We are disagreeing on how much the customer cost of the Slate truck is. I have seen several videos and articles giving $27K to $27.5K as the price without federal incentives.

The actual starting price is set at just under $27,500, and that sub-$20K price was with the expiring $7500 federal EV tax credit. https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a65317250/slate-truck-price-change-ev-tax-credit/

 

[KevinRS]

Every one of those videos and articles has been created by people who have exactly the same info slate has given us, which is very little. Slate doesn't even know what the end price is going to be, tariffs may go up or go away by that point, or we may be in a full blown recession by then. So it appears they will say nothing more on price for at least the next 6 months.

 

[sodamo]

Does every thread need to deteriorate into a pissing match about price?

Of course not, only those that contain words. An open invitation to say “ I can read better than you”

 

[sodamo]

It's been my observation that Slate is doing a masterful job of keeping potential customers engaged. Way better than any other OEM I've dealt with over the last 50 years. They have a staff that answers questions in hours. They put out a series of fun little video shorts. They're doing tours. They're promising test drives in 2026. They are knocking it out of the park.

But Slate can't share what Slate does not know...

• The market environment is changing so incredibly quickly that I doubt they can even pin some suppliers down to a cost figure right now.
• And if they can, they don't know what the wildly fluctuating tariff might be.
• Or even if any given supplier they selected will be in business in 18 months.
• They don't have a true production line representative vehicle - the ones they've show contain non-functioning buttons and software.
• They don't know what interest rates will be.
• They don't know if anyone will actually buy a BEV without incentives.
• They don't know what the competition is gonna release before the Slate reaches volume production in CY 2027.
• They don't know if they'll even meet the late 2026 target date for initial production (ask Tesla about "production hell").
• They don't know what proportion of reservations will convert to sales (ask Tesla about a million Cybertruck reservations).

The operative phrase is "they don't know". So they can't share what they don't know. Do you really want to end up like the Elon Musk fanboys? Being promised full self driving 10 years ago? Or being promised a Cybertruck with 300 miles range and a $40,000 price. Except it was less range and triple the money at release. Or a hundred other Elon Musk BS promises that never materialized?

Patience is a virtue right now. You ain't gonna get an MSRP until the order banks open. Promising a price today that they can't meet in 2027 is simply going to generate angry customers.

Slate is behaving responsibly. We should appreciate that.

Why would anyone want Slate to post anything “they don’t know” kinda irresponsible. We have many willing to post the unknown. But will they have a tidbit from time to time not worthy of a major announcement? Might they want some free feedback? Might a well placed fact stem wild speculation? Nature abhors an information void and we have too many too will to fill it.
Personally, I think Slate is going a great job, will continue to do so.

 

[The Dude]

I would like to know if the SUV package is one price that includes everything or all separate pieces and prices? Wouldn't mind SUV without rear seats. And will you be able to open the back SUV window without putting the tailgate down?

 

[ScooterAsheville]

There's also the question of bandwidth and human resources to consider. Human beings actually have to sleep. A company a small fraction the size of a major OEM is trying to deliver a vehicle from scratch. I'm guessing the Slate employees are spending every waking minute of every day just trying to get the vehicle over the finish line.

They have software to write. They have a year of testing to complete (we want a reliable vehicle, right?). They have supplier contracts to negotiate. They have a manufacturing line to set up (incredibly demanding). They have more problems to solve than there are hours in the day.

I get that every Slate fanboy (I'm definitely one) wants a constant stream of insider information to feed their Slate addiction. But I'd rather suffer from a lack of information, confident that Slate employees are investing their time in engineering, testing, building and delivering product - and not in keeping us fanboys satisfied.

When they have something to say, I'm sure they'll say it.

 

[sodamo]

I would like to know if the SUV package is one price that includes everything or all separate pieces and prices? Wouldn't mind SUV without rear seats. And will you be able to open the back SUV window without putting the tailgate down?

I think that is eagerly awaited for many of us.
very early on I queried and was told to just take seat out, but more recently it’s been hinted (interview video?) that we may be able to order more akin to the cargo van, hopefully just the topper, hopefully without rollbar etc.

 

[AZFox]

I think Slate will meet its 2026 target date because building the Slate seems fairly easy.

How easy is building a company and a factory?

IMHO that doesn't seem very easy.

 

[sodamo]

How easy is building a company and a factory?

IMHO that doesn't seem very easy.

Not easy, but they seem to have the right talent

 

[AZFox]

I don't have much of an opinion about Projected Pricing because I realize that market equilibrium price will be determined by basic economic principles (cross elasticity of demand, price elasticity of demand, really just supply and demand forces in general) in a future market that doesn't exist yet.

 

[AngryMedic]

My opinion only, new companies releasing their first product need to be hush as much as possible. And not spend to much time on what the forum warriors are saying. They said what their plans are, now they need to do it. How many times have we seen the “ I won’t buy unless it has xyz”. It’s their first product, and they have to be 100% or the whole thing goes into the toilet. Features and add ons, come later when the turn a profit for sustainability. I wonder how many accounts here have other motives with intentions of increasing doubt and or misinformation.

 

[AZFox]

I wonder how many accounts here have other motives with intentions of increasing doubt and or misinformation.

FUD Accounts! Hmmm. 🤔 Probably a number greater than zero now that you mention it.