Slate vs REO Runabout (Probable Scam)

[cadblu]

Contact info:
REO Industries, Inc., 9041 Garland Rd PO 2, Dallas, TX 75218.

if you look up that address... here is what comes up...
White Dog Ship and Print!

 

[ElectricShitbox]

Contact info:
REO Industries, Inc., 9041 Garland Rd PO 2, Dallas, TX 75218.

if you look up that address... here is what comes up...
White Dog Ship and Print!

They're definitely doing R&D in that PO box

 

[ElectricShitbox]

Dear whoever Slate has looking at the forum, please send a pile of Slate merch to that address!

 

[YDR37]

Well, REO Industries does have a job posting:

We're currently building out the design and visual identity ahead of customer reservations. We engage selectively with designers, illustrators, and 3D artists whose work reflects mechanical authenticity, considered proportion, and craft over trend.

Seems pretty conceptual at this point.

The listing indicates that they also own the "reoautos.com" domain name, which was also registered in May 2026. It redirects to "reotrucks.com".

 

[sodamo]

Slate said their base price was gonna be less than $20,000, and I jumped on board because I liked the looks of it, you won’t even show us what it’s going to look like and it’s supposedly going to be out in several months. Definitely think this is BS and is AI just wanting my $25 to go to somewhere in Kenya

No, no, no, Slate NEVER, said Base less the $20k without mentioning $$7500 tax incentive. been nearly a year, time to leave fantasy land or take a course in reading comprehension.

 

[sidneyhornblower]

And to name it after a 70s rock band and pulling Ransom E. Olds into the mix is just a display of poor taste.

Umm...the '70s rock band named themselves after the car company. There absolutely was an REO Speedwagon automobile (I think it was a fire truck) and it appeared on the eponymous album cover. And now I feel real old.

 

[sodamo]

Umm...the '70s rock band named themselves after the car company. There absolutely was an REO Speedwagon automobile (I think it was a fire truck) and it appeared on the eponymous album cover. And now I feel real old.

My Dad had one as his 1st vehicle, so also just a pu type. Sometime in the 30’s
of course I never saw it, but he’d talk about it.

 

[YDR37]

No, no, no, Slate NEVER, said Base less the $20k without mentioning $$7500 tax incentive.

That's correct, Slate said "under $20,000 with the $7,500 federal tax incentive". When the feds took that away, Slate stopped saying that.

But even without the federal incentive, some people will probably still be able to get a Slate for under $20,000, because of state incentives. For example, the Slate should qualify for the Oregon Charge Ahead rebate, which provides a $7,500 rebate on a new EV for low-income buyers.

 

[YDR37]

Umm...the '70s rock band named themselves after the car company. There absolutely was an REO Speedwagon automobile (I think it was a fire truck) and it appeared on the eponymous album cover. And now I feel real old.

Not sure if the album art is a literal depiction of an REO Speed Wagon, but yes, it was a well known truck brand in the early 20th Century.

 

[Mac-Tyson]

It makes sense that scammers would claim to be creating a Slate-like truck, since Slate's characteristics are so appealing to a wide general audience.

I mean, if they claimed to be making a 30k EV truck that their dealers won't mark up like crazy, nobody would believe them.

The thing is they say the final design will be unveiled by the end of the year not the prototype the design. So all the numbers they are saying could change and I bet some of them make 0 sense when you put it all together and look deep enough. I’ve also seen them replying to comments on posts talking about Slate where someone says something like I wish it was 4x4/AWD and they say we do. So yeah they are definitely trying to steal Slate’s thunder.

 

[rockinay]

No, no, no, Slate NEVER, said Base less the $20k without mentioning $$7500 tax incentive. been nearly a year, time to leave fantasy land or take a course in reading comprehension.

 

[rockinay]

Less than $20,000 was exactly what all the media was reporting and was exactly what got my attention. And all knew that that $7500 EV incentive would not be around when the Slate came out, but even base price of 25,000 I am willing to agree to.
But that’s not what my post was about it was that Reo truck in the US is bs. In Australia, there is a Rio truck, but it’s a semi.

 

[pdxmotorhead]

Designs were supposed to be public over a month ago... Nothing there.. I betting its stuck and died on the drawing board..

 

[bloo]

Umm...the '70s rock band named themselves after the car company. There absolutely was an REO Speedwagon automobile (I think it was a fire truck) and it appeared on the eponymous album cover. And now I feel real old.

Wrong band...

(file under grain)

 

[upspirate]

I think this REO is a scam, but it isn't to hard to hit 26mpg in a boxy pickup. My 2004 Tacoma base model 5-speed is rated 22/25 mpg, but I know it can easily get 28 mpg on the freeway from doing a number of Seattle to Portland and back runs. The secret is to not go over 70 mph.

I had an early S15 GMC pickup that hit 29-31MPG on highway. Basic 1.8L 4 cyl, 4 speed, no a/c,no ps, no pb, truck. It was boxy! Loved that truck! The Slate reminds me of it, that's why I'm interested in slate, but that other one is AI BS