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Nexus Auto Transport says shipping a car can cost from $250 to $775. I expect Slate would charge less than $1000 for most US locations. Maybe a little more in some of the bigger cities and likely quite a bit more for non-contiguous parts of the US (Alaska, Hawaii, and other US territories.)

I asked them about towing, and they said:

Hmm... Sale's Tax and Title here in Florida is 6% + $50 (county sale's tax) + $250 (about to transfer the title.) I'm guessing on destination fee based on what other car companies charge. What I'll be avoiding is the $1-2K "dealer fee" that all the dealerships tack on around here.

Yea, I've seen interviews with their chief engineer and he explicitly said that will not be the case. The high-voltage system will not be user serviceable.

They should so put a live web-cam in the factory! Or at least take a few pictures a day and put out a stop-motion video of the progress. I'd watch that for sure. Better than watching a baby hippo.

Fortunately for me, my trailer is only 600# (including the boat.) But yea, maybe the confusion here is trailer capacity vs trailer weight. U-Haul's 4' x 7' utility trailer weighs 630# when empty...

Man, I was hoping those were external, add on, batteries!

This has been an interesting discussion and it made me think... I've owned something like 10 cars over the years I've been driving. All have been 2-door and manual transmission (I take that back, my first car was an auto and was gifted to me, so I wasn't counting it). I've never owned a truck...

All of them. One person asked if they are in such demand, why don't dealerships carry them? The answer is profit margin. A 2 door takes up a parking space just like a 4 door, but doesn't net the dealership as much money.

I would think that 10+ years from now, the "upfit kits" for Slate 1.0 will be handled by aftermarket companies producing "OEM" parts. Other than that, everything said sounds about right to me.

Of course a 5% profit margin, at first, is technically cash flow positive...

I've said it before. If you plan to slap on the SUV kit, and extended battery, and maybe even just a few other options, from the start... Then you likely would be better off just getting a Kona. It will be intersting if the base truck comes in at $23k and with extended battery is $27k. IE, both...

Listen again to their original ad on YouTube... CEO: "A Sate cost in the mid20s. Brand new." Now I get that this is likely a "ball-park" figure but so is Ford's. Sure, the consensus is that it will come in between 25 and 27.5... But why take Ford at their word? You don't really think that Ford...

Everybody always bumps the Slate by $2,500 but takes Ford at their word @ $30k... How about say Slate is at $27.5k and Ford is at $32.5k? Or Slate is at $25k and Ford is at $30k? Hell, Ford's price should be less accurate because they are estimating two years out on a vehicle that doesn't even...

I think someone who is looking at a Slate SUV with the extended battery out the gate would be better served with the Ford EV or even the Hyundai Kona EV (which is already out.) Such people aren't looking for a cheep pickup truck, they are looking for a cheep SUV with extended range. In the case...

I don't know if this is typical, but every dealer in my city has a "dealer fee" ranging from $1-2K that they add to all vehicle sales. If you ask, they will even tell you that this fee goes directly to the owner of the dealership.

When I worked at a dealership, I learned that the person who comes to your car to chat with you in the service line works on pure commission.

But what else can we possibly talk about other than speculation about [unannounced] price and unannounced features?

Except they said "mid-20s" from the beginning. They even said that before they said under 20K with incentive.

No Slate representative has ever been quoted as saying anything other than mid-20s or under 20K with incentives. Could they have told reporters something they haven't told us? It seems to me far more likely that reporters heard "mid-$20K", and "under $20k after incentives", then added the...