Why hasn't Slate revealed any warranty details?

[cadblu]

Trying to understand why Slate hasn't yet revealed their new vehicle warranty plans, given that deliveries are targeted late 2026.

In contrast, the Scout, with deliveries later in 2027 has already announced their warranty:

• Four-year, 48,000-mile comprehensive warranty
• Seven-year, 100,000-mile electric drivetrain warranty
• Eight-year, 100,000-mile high-voltage battery warranty
• Scout also intends to offer extended vehicle warranties.

My position is that warranties are an extremely important consideration, especially on new vehicles from a startup company. My hope is that Slate will reveal their warranty plans well before the ordering process goes live.

 

[SichuanHot]

I bet there's still a lot of legal stuff that has yet to be worked out with Slate's upstream parts supply chain

 

[TexasSlate]

It looks like federal law requires at least an 8 year, 100K mile battery warranty.

https://poweringautos.com/does-the-federal-government-require-an-8-year-battery-warranty/

 

[SLATEchad]

The scout was announced a lot longer ago, so it makes perfect sense to me that they’d have more publicized information even if their targeted release date is further out. As Texasslate said, there will at least be a 100k mile/8 year battery warranty per federal regulation. They also have said that the design is built around being easy and affordable to repair, which might mean a shorter warranty on non powertrain/battery items, but hopefully at least readily available and cheap parts that can be easily repaired by the average person

 

[evtruth]

That's a good question.

Federal law requires the battery pack warranty to be at least 8 years or 100,000 miles. I'm not entirely sure on everything else. The good news is that in that 100,000 miles of battery warranty you'll save enough in fuel over a 24 MPG (current average MPG of a vehicle on US roads) vehicle to pay for almost HALF of a new Slate truck if you want to. I'm sure that same ~$9K would net you a couple of battery packs if you want as well meaning you'll be WAY ahead of picking an ICEV over the Slate truck.

 

[Shay]

Someone made the comparison to Scout, having already announced their warranty intentions. It’s easy for them to do that. They’re a subsidiary of Volkswagen, a company who already knows how to do this and has that stuff in the can. This is a new company with a new product. They’re probably waiting to make sure how their numbers work out closer to production. Because at the end of the day warranty length has a cost factor to it.