EVwire brief: Slate Auto looks to have leaked the starting price of its bare-bones electric pickup, and the number is $24,950.
The Autopian noted that the source code of Slate's "How to Preorder" page turned up a line indicating a “confidential” $24,950 price. A second, now-deleted page on Slate's site listed the same number, and it made the rounds in a Slate Facebook group and a short YouTube video before everything was pulled.
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If the number holds, it lands right where Slate had been hinting. The company has only ever said publicly that the truck would start in the "mid-$20,000s," and $24,950 fits that to the dollar.
It is also a step up from the original pitch. Slate first floated a sub-$20,000 starting point, but that math leaned on the $7,500 federal EV tax credit, which has since gone away. With the credit gone, a true sub-$20,000 price was off the table, and the company had signaled its costs were running higher.
Time will tell if the Slate and its “mid-$20,000s” price can compete well with Ford’s upcoming $30,000 pickup truck, which will be better equipped.
Context:
Even at $24,950 before destination, the Slate Truck would be about the cheapest new EV in the US, undercutting the $30,000 electric pickup Ford has been testing. The trade-off is a deliberately spartan vehicle: a two-seat pickup sold in a single configuration, "ready for accessorization" into a five-seat SUV or other body styles after delivery.
On the spec side, Slate has detailed two battery options: a 52.7 kWh pack good for up to 150 miles (240 km) of EPA range, and an 84.3 kWh pack rated up to 240 miles (385 km). The truck uses a NACS port with access to Tesla's Supercharger network and can charge from 20% to 80% in about 30 minutes at up to 120 kW. It will be built in Warsaw, Indiana, with deliveries due in late 2026.
Demand has not been the problem. Slate has collected more than 160,000 reservations, each held with a fully refundable $50 deposit.
Source: The Autopian
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