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