Slate's New Affordable Electric Pickup Truck Will Cost Slightly More Than the Reported $24,950
www.caranddriver.com
The bare-bones Blank Slate's base price will rise to over $25,000 once its mandatory destination fee is finalized.
  • Devadander@lemmy.worldEnglish
    72·
    1 month ago

    But it will be a real vehicle made by a real company with things like a ‘radio’

    I put a deposit down on one when they were first announced. But that was when its price was competitive with cheap used EVs. Then accepting the stripped down bare bones truck made sense. This is too close to new EV pricing. Bolt, Leaf, Ford EV are all within range of this, especially with an option or two to make it livable. Plus at $25k you’re now competing with very clean used examples of the Hyundai triplets and mustang Mach e.

    Best of luck, Slate, but to me the truck doesn’t justify its price.

    • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
      51·
      1 month ago

      But it will be a real vehicle made by a real company with things like a ‘radio’

      That’s a bad thing, because “radio” these days implies “spying and enshittification.”

      Slate is the only EV on the entire market that isn’t fucked with that deal-breaker.

        • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          1 month ago

          CarPlay itself, perhaps not. The telemetry, ads, annoying safety nagging, and sometimes even paywalled vehicle features that tend to be implemented alongside it (because the underlying computerization facilitates both the good and the bad) is, though.

    • mesa@piefed.socialEnglish
      1·
      1 month ago

      Im planning on waiting 5 years to see if it will become a thing and be well supported. Ive been burned by experimental tech before. But I hope to see more of these kind of projects pop up in the future.