Destination Charge

[The Weatherman]

For those you out there that don’t believe the details that @EV Trek has been providing, stop by your local dealership (any brand) ask them. You’ll get same answer.

 

[Luke42]

Too bad there’s not an option to pick it up from the factory, like some of the European makers had (possibly still have?). I’m in west Michigan, so I’d gladly take the trip to Warsaw, IN to save a destination fee. 😉

Rivian over in Illinois does factory delivery.

I picked mine up a the factory and it was really cool.

 

[Twisted Santa]

Yeah, my trip would be 2,256 miles and 32 hours. I can wait for the auto carrier to get here.

 

[EV Trek]

I bet you could contact Slate and arrange to pick it up at the Factory, but you would still have to pay a destination charge.

I was thinking of trying that, take a Greyhound bus to Warsaw and drive it home to Tennessee.
It would take me about 13 hours including 4 to 5 charging stops.
I could make it in two stops in my Equinox EV…

 

[GrizzlysGhost]

I bet you could contact Slate and arrange to pick it up at the Factory, but you would still have to pay a destination charge.

I was thinking of trying that, take a Greyhound bus to Warsaw and drive it home to Tennessee.
It would take me about 13 hours including 4 to 5 charging stops.
I could make it in two stops in my Equinox EV…

I was thinking earlier how it would be cool to fly over to Warsaw to pick up my truck. Maybe eat some Slate cookies, walk barefoot on some Slate grass, breathe some Slate air, talk to Slate people about Slate things. Then drive my truck to the shipper, fly back home, and wait for my truck to meet me there. The more I think about it, the dumber it sounds... never mind.

 

[Rocks]

Should Slate choose not to charge a "destination fee" and instead charges a "delivery fee" of exactly what it costs to ship to a given location, they could tailor it so that factory pickups were zero cost.

The name of the fee is what actually matters. It's dumb but that's how most things in the franchised dealer world are.

 

[LevelHeaded]

I think it will be no-fee pickup from closest Carvana, or last-mile delivery fee to your house from closest Carvana!

 

[Medicfrost]

I think it will be no-fee pickup from closest Carvana, or last-mile delivery fee to your house from closest Carvana!

This is what I am hoping for.

 

[Rocks]

I have a suspicion that Carvana is going to play a role in this somehow. With all the Stellantis stores they've bought, and how they went from zero to largest CDJR seller basically overnight, adding Slate would give them another line of new cars to sell.

Stellantis went along with it because they need a large volume dealer more than they need the goodwill of Backwater Billy's Ram store.

Slate would get someone that would be will to ship out a single sku truck for the cost of delivery and a doc fee for the non-DSO states.

And I would totally take $30K in quarters to go get a Slate out of the Vegas vending machine.

 

[MadKemist]

😭

😆 most of the drive is through Illinois, it’s not that bad.

 

[GrizzlysGhost]

😆 most of the drive is through Illinois, it’s not that bad.

This part here though. No.

 

[MadKemist]

This part here though. No.

Oh my! That is a bit of a nightmare

 

[Tom Sawyer]

Hit the campground at Theodore Roosevelt National Park and check out the Badlands while there. Have a glass half-full of the lemonade you just made out of all those lemons.

 

[EV Trek]

I looked it up and a Chevy Colorado destination charge is $2,095 I check three dealers in different states and destination charge was the same at every one.

 

[Rocks]

Yeah, being able to separate the destination charge from the MSRP for the advertised price really makes a mockery of the process.