Deep dive article: 70 Slate prototypes built already

[bartflossom]

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/07/jeff-bezos-slate-auto-ev.html

 

[cadblu]

Well, there were a couple of interesting facts I picked up from this article. Slate assembled 70 betas and prototypes in a makeshift factory located 20 miles from their Troy headquarters. That's impressive since they were mostly hand built without automation. Granted, it took them 2 years to accomplish this working in stealth mode. At full rate production they will crank out about 70 vehicles in one hour. And I like that they play music in the factory!

 

[sodamo]

Not even 3 years yet! 70 prototypes vs 1 Telo!
The naysayers can be wrong. Will be most interesting to get a six month update.
i know I can hardly wait.

 

[slateya]

“Dozens of prototypes”. Hadn’t heard a number that high yet.

 

[sodamo]

From the article

Slate is using the location — a stone’s throw away from a massive General Motors assembly plant — to produce more than 70 vehicles for internal testing, certification and everything else a company needs to prepare to produce and sell vehicles in the United States.

 

[cvollers]

Well, there were a couple of interesting facts I picked up from this article. Slate assembled 70 betas and prototypes in a makeshift factory located 20 miles from their Troy headquarters. That's impressive since they were mostly hand built without automation. Granted, it took them 2 years to accomplish this working in stealth mode. At full rate production they will crank out about 70 vehicles in one hour. And I like that they play music in the factory!

In that same amount of time (or longer), Telos built exactly one Alpha prototype that looks like it was slapped together in a month.