Expected price now "Mid-Twenties" for Slate truck

[Letas]

How does this relate to this thread, you ask?

Slate needs to guesstimate what the demand curve and price accordingly.

Penetration pricing means "erring on the low side" for the jump-start effect of selling units rapidly while things are getting going.

Eventually guesstimating the demand curve will be easier based on how things go.

Slate could also take a cost-plus price model and share that with consumers. Younger generation values transparency a ton.

 

[Daemoch]

I'd be fine with knowing what it actually costs and still realizing folks gotta feed their kids and pay their bills and stuff so the price will have to be "cost+". I own a business. I get it. I wont let my vendors under charge me because they have to make ends meet too....or I'll always be shopping for new vendors (and that costs me time=$).

Consider this: just look at what costs have done globally in the last 5 years. Now assume SLate has some setbacks and they come to market 5 years from now (FINALLY! YAY!). Do we REALLY expect them to honor the original pricing projections they started with? ARE YOU INSANE? lol

 

[Trace26]

You could buy a used pickup for $5k off of marketplace, if not cheaper, and not spend another $20k on it for the next decade or more, to match the cost of the new slate

Thats not knocking the slate, thats just reality. My '03 F150 was like $3500

If you don't do all the work yourself, you can hit that $20,000 in repairs real fast if you're unlucky.

 

[Daemoch]

I bought a used 2000 S10 (2WD, auto, ext cab) for $2500 from a good friend with about 120k on it He'd bought it a few years prior from the original owner with about 40k on it and had all records down to mpg records per tank (for business purposes). The drive shaft made noise. Turned out it was a 2 piece HD shaft that in addition to being rebuilt needed to be rebalanced, too. There was only one shop in the Chicago area we could find that could/would do it and they charged $4k just for the rebuild and balance. Cheap trucks arent always.

 

[cadblu]

I’m going to repost a picture I took yesterday.

This is what you can expect with a 25 year old pickup truck with 150k+ miles. This is why you should buy the Slate.

Any questions?

 

[sodamo]

Soooooo, is that $$$ just resting on the pavement?

 

[GaRailroader]

Hard pressed not to consider as competitive to a Slate. A truck with paint, radio, and 6' box.

This is very similar to what I got rid of 3.5 years ago when I concluded it would be more cost effective to daily operate an EV and rent a truck on occasion when I need it. In early 2022 I sold my white 2019 Chevy Colorado extended cab RWD 6 speed and bought a 2022 Nissan Leaf with 150 mile battery. Everyone’s EV operation costs vary, but I save 10 cents per mile driving the Leaf versus the Colorado. I do rent a flat bed truck from Home Depot a mile down the road pretty regularly. So I am going to hold out for the affordable EV pick-up versus going back to ICE.

 

[cadblu]

Hard pressed not to consider as competitive to a Slate. A truck with paint, radio, and 6' box.

Nice truck. I'm sure the dealer will add in some options you don't want to inflate the out the door price.

Final assembly point, Mexico. Just a side bar question, how is this exempt from tariffs?

 

[GaRailroader]

Nice truck. I'm sure the dealer will add in some options you don't want to inflate the out the door price.

Final assembly point, Mexico. Just a side bar question, how is this exempt from tariffs?

When you see that asterisk next to the price you can rest assure that is not the price. Read the fine print and find out all the junk fees they are adding to it. When I make an offer at the dealer I tell them I will pay this price plus tax, tag and title. Whatever junk fees they want to charge they just need adjust the numbers so with their junk fees it comes out to my offer price. This levels the playing field between dealers.

 

[cvollers]

Because what people say on the net is inaccurate.

In this instance it's based on observed opinions, with references.

Now let's leave this thread to discussion of the OT.

Garbage in, garbage out.

 

[AZFox]

Hard pressed not to consider as competitive to a Slate. A truck with paint, radio, and 6' box.

...only if you believe the mid-sized Toyota ICE pickup and the Slate Truck are substitutes for one another, which they aren't.

The Ownership Experience in general, and long-term Cost-Of-Ownership in particular, are vastly different.

That dog won't hunt.

 

[Dorbiman]

The comparisons to Tacomas and Mavericks are exhausting.

EV is a primary selling point. I'm not considering another ICE vehicle at this point.

 

[AZFox]

And it will last 300,000 miles.

Maybe 1% will.

And it will require a lot of maintenance and repair cost and hassle to make that happen because of all the extra moving parts.

 

[Trace26]

Hard pressed not to consider as competitive to a Slate. A truck with paint, radio, and 6' box.

Yeah you're right. The Toyota hauls more weight and tows more weight. Refuels in 5 minutes and has no range limitations. It does truck stuff.

And it will last 300,000 miles.

With the way they built stuff nowadays I have a hard time believing it will last that long. Toyota isn't what it used to be.

 

[Adam W]

I want to haul stuff, not people. And do it with electrons not oil. That means the only comparibles for me are:

Truck Model	Starting MSRP (Base Trim)*
Rivian R1T	$70,990
Ford F150 Lightning	$54,780
Chevrolet Silverado EV (commercial)	$57,095
GMC Sierra EV	$64,495
Tesla Cybertruck	$72,235
GMC Hummer EV Pickup	$96,550
Slate Truck	~$27,500