The Slate truck accessories system is one of the most important parts of understanding what you’re actually buying when you order a Slate. The $24,950 base price gets you a two-seat pickup truck with crank windows, no infotainment screen, no speakers, and an unpainted gray polypropylene body. That’s not a bug — it’s the foundation…
This Slate truck review is based on the first hands-on ride-along, not just the press release. Pricing and preorders dominated the headlines this week, but the more useful story for anyone actually planning to buy a Slate truck is what happens when a journalist gets inside one. At a media event in Gardena, California, Slate…
The Slate truck EV market outlook is more complicated than the price tag suggests. Slate Auto’s $24,950 truck is officially the cheapest new truck sold in America, undercutting a base Ford Maverick XL by more than $2,000. That’s the headline. The more interesting question — the one analysts started asking this week — is whether…
Slate has explicitly positioned itself against the Ford Maverick, calling itself “the most affordable truck in America.” That’s a direct shot at the Maverick, which has held that title for years. Now that both trucks have real, current pricing and specs, here’s how they actually stack up. Pricing Even accounting for Slate’s still-unannounced destination fee,…
Buried beneath the pricing headlines is a detail that could matter just as much for how you actually buy and own a Slate: the company’s quiet tie-up with Carvana, the online used-car giant. What We Know Earlier in June, it was reported that Slate Auto granted Carvana a warrant to purchase its shares — a…
The Slate truck Indiana factory is turning Warsaw into an unlikely hub for the next generation of American-made EVs — and the ripple effects are already showing up in the local economy. The Numbers Slate has described this as “reindustrializing America” — taking an existing industrial site rather than building greenfield, and putting people to…
One of the more interesting wrinkles in Slate’s preorder data: more than half of people configuring their trucks in pre-production have been choosing an SUV body style — even though Slate’s entire marketing pitch is built around being an affordable pickup. Here’s how the configurations actually compare. The Base Pickup (“Blank Slate”) Squareback SUV Conversion…
The Slate truck tax credit was supposed to be the difference between a $24,950 sticker price and a genuinely sub-$20,000 truck — but that math no longer works. The Original Pitch Slate’s whole premise was affordability. The company planned to price its base “Blank Slate” pickup at $24,950 before incentives, but marketed a net price…
Here are Slate truck full specs and pricing, confirmed straight from Slate Auto’s official June 24 reveal — preorders are now open, and we’ve broken down everything announced so far. Pricing These prices exclude tax, title, registration, destination, and documentation fees, so your out-the-door price will be higher. Note: Slate originally marketed a sub-$20,000 net…