Slate Auto<\/a> electric truck starts at $499.99, according to the build page slate.auto. Because every truck leaves the factory in the exact same unpainted gray composite material, wraps function as the vehicle\u2019s entire color program.<\/p>\nTo keep prices down, the so-called Slate Marketplace will offer over 200 accessories, with over 80 percent under $500, Slate said.<\/p>\n
Options include roof racks, stereos, zip-off seat covers, and light covers. There will also be over 100 wrap colors at launch, \u201cor any custom color you want,\u201d Slate said. But again, no prices were listed for any of those except the wraps, which are $499.99, not counting professional installation, which is targeted at \u201c$500 or less.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSlate gives customers the freedom to buy only what they need today and personalize their vehicle as their needs change tomorrow,\u201d said CEO Peter Faricy, who, along with the pricing and the specs, is also new. \u201cWe\u2019re excited to start seeing Slates on roads across America later this year.\u201d<\/p>\n
Specifically, Slate said the first deliveries would be in Q4 of this year. The company also claimed there were over 180,000 reservation holders who put down $50 each to keep a place in line. A step up from the $50 \u201creservation holder\u201d status is now the $300 \u201cpreorder.\u201d If you already paid the $50, you only have to add $250 to preorder.<\/p>\n
In case you need a Slate update, here are the latest specs:<\/p>\n
Range is now listed at 205 miles for a single available LFP battery. Last year there were two batteries with two ranges, 150 and 240 miles. Slate did some math and said the changes amounted to a 37 percent increase.Battery capacity is now listed at 65 kWh. Last year it was a choice of two batteries, 52.7-kWh with a range target of 150 miles; and 84.3 kWh good for 240 miles.Charging is by a NACS port on the left rear corner, making it compatible with the Tesla Supercharger network. It\u2019ll recharge at up to 120 kW there. On a Level 2 home charger, meanwhile, Slate says the 11-kW onboard AC charger will get it to 100 percent in four hours.The tow rating is up from 1,000 to 2,000 lb, which allows you to tow a pair of jet skis.Payload capacity has risen from 1,433 lb to 1,550 lb.The 181-hp electric motor driving the rear wheels will get the 4,048-pound Slate from 0-60 mph in 8.0 seconds. The SUV version weighs 4,335 pounds, but no 0-60 was given.Suspension is MacPherson struts front and De Dion axle in back, same as the Mercedes-Benz electric G-Wagen and the old Mitsubishi iMiEV.![\"Headshot](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/20cf1f71-8bff-4687-8dfc-710a06a978b4_1576587408.png\" "\\"Headshot")
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Mark Vaughn grew up in a Ford family and spent many hours holding a trouble light over a straight-six miraculously fed by a single-barrel carburetor while his father cursed the Blue Oval, all its products and everyone who ever worked there. This was his introduction to objective automotive criticism. He started writing for City News Service in Los Angeles, then moved to Europe and became editor of a car magazine called, creatively, Auto. He decided Auto should cover Formula 1, sports prototypes and touring cars\u2014no one stopped him! From there he interviewed with Autoweek at the 1989 Frankfurt motor show and has been with us ever since.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Slate, America\u2019s cheapest EV, cheapest pickup truck, and best at getting its name into the media on a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398859,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,160171,47544,160170,9569,124165,9568,160169,154351],"class_list":["post-398858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-collection-electric-vehicles","tag-content-type-news","tag-contentid-70319b62-0be3-4ba6-b34a-a0f3e0c3d654","tag-displaytype-standard-article","tag-issyndicated-false","tag-locale-us","tag-shorttitle-slate-reveals-the-actual-price-of-its-ev-pickup","tag-sponsored-false"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Slate\/\/AutoweekAn official full vinyl wrap kit for the modular