News: Slate First Deliveries Could Begin in December! Reservation & Distribution Info Coming June 22!

[cadblu]

Slate makes front page news in the Kosciusko County local newspaper:

 

[KevinRS]

It does have a date of June 22 for their announcements, but with the mistakes made by going through the filter of the writer, not sure how much else is solid, like "doesn't rely on steel parts"

"Deliver by the end of the year" may have been turned into "deliver beginning in December"

 

[ScooterAsheville]

The guy being quoted is a sales lead. I remember during my time at a Fortune 50 corporation, our sales leads always had a product guy at their side. The product guy was there to stop the sales guy from promising things we could not deliver. Which sales guys do like breathing.

 

[cadblu]

I found the sales lead’s comment teasing AutoZone as a potential Repair Pal partner rather interesting.

 

[KevinRS]

I found the sales lead’s comment teasing AutoZone as a potential Repair Pal partner rather interesting.

Yeah, Autozone? do some Autozones have repair shops? I know Pep Boys does service, but maybe in that part of the company Autozone is similar?

 

[KevinRS]

The guy being quoted is a sales lead. I remember during my time at a Fortune 50 corporation, our sales leads always had a product guy at their side. The product guy was there to stop the sales guy from promising things we could not deliver. Which sales guys do like breathing.

Part of the details could be that kind of thing, and part could be misinterpretation by the writer. No steel body panels might have sounded like no steel parts.

 

[Susan]

The guy being quoted is a sales lead. I remember during my time at a Fortune 50 corporation, our sales leads always had a product guy at their side. The product guy was there to stop the sales guy from promising things we could not deliver. Which sales guys do like breathing.

We met Christian Kreipke at the Slate event at the San Francisco Zoo last summer. Very knowlegeable guy. And interested in what we wanted out of a Slate. Hoping to talk to him again soon.

 

[AeroWolf]

Yeah, Autozone? do some Autozones have repair shops? I know Pep Boys does service, but maybe in that part of the company Autozone is similar?

Yes, I believe Autozone and Pep Boys merged, or partnered, within the past few years. I have a seen the Pep Boys shop near me which had a parts store attached recently change to Autozone colors.

 

[bartflossom]

Man. I'd forgotten how oddly formatted newspapers are. And the whole "continued on page x" thing. I'm waxing nostalgic now. I miss my sports section.

 

[1yeliab_sufur1]

Yeah id say that date is most likely

 

[PNWEng]

Yeah, Autozone? do some Autozones have repair shops? I know Pep Boys does service, but maybe in that part of the company Autozone is similar?

I took it to mean the official parts distributor to Repair Pal shops, with the full set of Slate parts. I wonder if they are considering AutoZone for handling sales of all Slate parts, including add-ons, so Slate can focus on just the manufacturing.

 

[sodamo]

We don’t have a local RepairPal but we have AutoZone 🤙🤙🤙

 

[KJRaven]

We met Christian Kreipke at the Slate event at the San Francisco Zoo last summer. Very knowlegeable guy. And interested in what we wanted out of a Slate. Hoping to talk to him again soon.

Christian is awesome, i have a few conversations with him about the truck now, at GFX last year, and when i got to see the truck at a fleet demo earlier this year.
He came from Ford and brings a lot of knowledge to the Slate Fleet team.

 

[Letas]

Important to remember customer deliveries does not mean the people in this forum. Slate likely will start with employee (customer) deliveries, then high profile (read: influencers), before selling to general public. If I had to guess, I'd say we will see a 2-3 month latency between the first "customer deliveries" getting announced and the general public receiving the first cars.

 

[sodamo]

Important to remember customer deliveries does not mean the people in this forum. Slate likely will start with employee (customer) deliveries, then high profile (read: influencers), before selling to general public. If I had to guess, I'd say we will see a 2-3 month latency between the first "customer deliveries" getting announced and the general public receiving the first cars.

Personally hope you are wrong, but maybe some mix of the above with some of us thrown in.