Destination and Documentation Fees

[AZFox]

TL;DR: The question is:
What should we expect Destination (a.k.a Delivery) and Documentation fees to be? If you expect other mandatory fees, what are they?


I'm asking about this because I got curious what my out-the-door price for a Slate Truck might be, and there's a big Question Mark where some of the fees go.

The total "Out-The-Door" cost of a new Slate will include

* Price of the vehicle
* Sales Tax
* Destination (a.k.a. Delivery) Fee
* Documentation Fee
* Title and Registration Fee
* Junk Fees (Prep Fee or whatever)
* EV-Specific Fee (some places)

Wow, what a buzzkill that list is!

I started to make a "delivery and document fees" poll, but delivery charges presumably will be location-specific, so that idea fizzled.

What should we expect?

 

[Neil Nelson]

Sales Tax for the Utah area varies but is roughly 7%. Delivery should be less than $1,000. Title and Registration will be around $100. Everything else is negligible if they happen at all.

I forgot to mention paperwork when you are financing the Slate. The charges and interest when financing will be considerable.

Another item to mention is automobile insurance.

 

[Luxrage]

Another item to mention is automobile insurance.

I'm interested in how insurance will be, it's carving out a new category for compact EV pickups.

 

[Neil Nelson]

Since my vehicles are paid for, the only insurance I need is for accidents with other drivers.

 

[AZFox]

I found title and registration by searching multiple places. The best result (YMMV) was from a Brave search for:
Arizona new vehicle license and registration cost for 27500

MSRP + Sales Tax + License & Registration + ? = OTD

Sales tax here is 9.1%, so for $27,500 it's

$27,500 + $2,502.50 + $480.50 + ? = OTD
or
$30,483 + ? = OTD

 

[KevinRS]

Sales tax and registration fees depend on the state.
Documentation fee is charged by a dealer to process the paperwork, some states limit it, so it might vary. Hopefully with no dealers and only 2 base models with different batteries, slate will have the paperwork automated and not charge much for this.
Destination fee covers delivery to a dealership normally, slate might charge this, and might charge a delivery fee on top of this if they are delivering to your curb if their pickup locations aren't close.
Hopefully slate is going to skip all the other possible fees dealerships tack on.

Hopefully insurance won't be much of an issue, but the first buyers might have to have their insurance companies physically look at the truck if it's not in their system so they can build out what the potential repair costs would be.

 

[sodamo]

My recent Hawaii purchase:

Taxes 4.712%		4.712%
DMV Reg /Title		$225.68
Doc Fees		$529.00
Other Fees		$25.00

Will be interesting to see how Slate handles various States.
Maybe Tesla approach provides insight?

 

[Neil Nelson]

I doubt Slate will handle the various states. That will be up to the people in the states who buy Slates.

 

[Luxrage]

I'm looking at 6.25% and probably $300 in reg fees based on my county. No vanity or custom plates.

 

[KevinRS]

I doubt Slate will handle the various states. That will be up to the people in the states who buy Slates.

How do tesla and others deal with it?
Most states are going to require Slate to collect sales tax if they have sales tax.
Looking up how Rivian does it, it looks like they do handle title and registration as part of the digital experience.

 

[1yeliab_sufur1]

I found title and registration by searching multiple places. The best result (YMMV) was from a Brave search for:
Arizona new vehicle license and registration cost for 27500

MSRP + Sales Tax + License & Registration + ? = OTD

Sales tax here is 9.1%, so for $27,500 it's

$27,500 + $2,502.50 + $480.50 + ? = OTD
or
$30,483 + ? = OTD

Yah that’s about right unless you get a custom license plate that’s 25 extra