Open Air Mode Slate Pickup w/ Blue Wrap (from Rhode Island event showing)

[KevinRS]

For mail carriers, I wonder if a slate would fit. Range would be the potential issue. An EV with regenerative braking would probably be ideal for some city/suburban to rural routes. In my area, they are stopping about every 110 feet, then gunning the gas to get to the next box. A slate would need little modification, add the "delivery shell" that's been posted in some images, that looks like the SUV shell with no windows, or maybe a taller version and take out the passenger seat, and probably put in some racks for mail.
Some research, and the NGDV contract specified 90 mile range, including 600 starts/stops, 0-60 in 35 seconds. Some will be built awd, some fwd.

 

[Doctors Do Little]

For mail carriers, I wonder if a slate would fit. Range would be the potential issue. An EV with regenerative braking would probably be ideal for some city/suburban to rural routes. In my area, they are stopping about every 110 feet, then gunning the gas to get to the next box. A slate would need little modification, add the "delivery shell" that's been posted in some images, that looks like the SUV shell with no windows, or maybe a taller version and take out the passenger seat, and probably put in some racks for mail.
Some research, and the NGDV contract specified 90 mile range, including 600 starts/stops, 0-60 in 35 seconds. Some will be built awd, some fwd.

Now you are feeling me!

 

[AZFox]

They never said just under $20k.

The Internet remembers.
Search and ye shall find.

https://tech.yahoo.com/transportation/articles/slate-truck-know-low-cost-080815456.html

The Slate Truck is a simple, electric vehicle made in the United States, with an expected price of just under $20,000, according to its website. Slate Auto is a firm backed in part by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, according to a report by NBC News.​

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/au...e-auto-unveils-affordable-ev-truck-rcna203014

Its starting price point: $20,000 after federal EV incentives.​

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a64564869/2027-slate-truck-revealed/

Nascent automaker Slate is putting a lot of faith in the federal EV tax credit sticking around, because with the $7500 subsidy, the company's battery-electric 2027 Truck will cost consumers a little less than $20,000. Even without that, the Slate Truck will retail for just under $27,500.​

On the bright side, sometimes they left out "just under".
https://www.theverge.com/news/658223/slate-factory-electric-truck-location-indiana

Since Slate Auto came out of stealth mode last week, the internet has been abuzz with speculation about the finer details of the ultra-barebones electric Truck, which is set to cost just $20,000 when it enters production next year -- assuming our [federal EV incentives] are still in place by then.​

 

[Trace26]

I think it's very possible that they intended to sell just under $20k with incentives but they might drop the price to make up for the loss of the credit. "Mid 20s" leaves wiggle room for what that price will be.

 

[danielt1263]

https://tech.yahoo.com/transportation/articles/slate-truck-know-low-cost-080815456.html

Your quotes are not from Slate representatives. When I said "They", I didn't mean just any random internet article.

No Slate company representative ever said "just under $20K". They have always and consistently said either "mid-20k" or "under-20K with 'current' incentives (which they stopped saying once the federal incentive went away.)

And even at $27.5k they are still the least expensive EV that can tow without voiding the warranty. (If I'm wrong on this point, please point it out because that's what I'm lookin for, a new EV that can tow without voiding the warranty.)