Slate just dropped the final number.
It is $26,400.
That’s for the “Blank Slate” pickup, base price and all, plus a mandatory $1,450 destination fee. The math works out cleanly because the company announced the fee specifically to align with that round total.
The specs are different now too.
Range Creep
Remember when people worried about range anxiety for this thing? They said 150 miles would cut it for most commutes, maybe less. That number was the starting line, but LFP chemistry evolved while engineers waited.
Now you get 205 miles.
The battery sits at 63 kWh. Charging happens via a NACS port—so you plug into the Tesla network directly—capable of 120 kW. If you are at home on a Level 2 setup, the 11 kW onboard charger takes about four hours to go from empty to full. Not lightning fast. Fast enough for a morning shower.
We drove it.
Just a few miles around an office park in Gardena, near the design center where they announced the pricing. The roads there are pockmarked, terrible surfaces, and the Slate absorbed them well. Probably the long 108.9-inch wheelbase helping out, smoothing things before they hit the suspension. It uses MacPherson struts in the front, De Dion tube in the rear. That rigid setup lets them bolt a solid axle right to the motor housing, similar to what Mercedes did for their electric G-Wagen. It feels right.
Performance numbers are… there.
181 horsepower, 195 lb-ft of torque. Rear-wheel drive only.
Zero to 60 takes eight seconds. Top speed caps at 90 mph. Is that thrilling? No. But EV torque delivers instantly. Merging into traffic felt easy. Effortless even. It is not a speed demon, sure, but it does not drag its feet either.
Wraps Instead of Paint
You won’t find this in a dealer showroom. Slate sells direct.
Here is the twist on color: The truck comes off the line one base shade. The finish you want? That’s a vinyl wrap applied at the end of the line. One hundred options at launch. Forty of those cost only $499.
Or you don’t pay at all. You buy it bare, then apply your own wrap later. Every option is user-installable. The wraps. The lifts. The SUV kit itself.
Break down the options, and they look accessible. Over a third cost less than $100. Half of them are under $250. Eighty percent stay below $500. That seems aggressive for customization, especially when competitors lock features behind hardware tiers you can’t change.
But you want the SUV? It gets expensive fast.
Adding that back seat bumps the price to $31,400. You want the fastback sloped roof style? Add another chunk of cash to hit $33,400. Slate hasn’t confirmed prices for the two-inch suspension lift or the lowering kit yet. The core product stays cheap; the styling choices add up.
Payload and the Front Trunk
Payload capacity surprised some early estimates.
The pickup carries 1,550 lbs. The SUV takes a 1,263 lbs hit—literally—because those extra components weigh 287 lbs. Towing maxes at 2,000 lbs. Stick to local hauling with that, we think. The bed length sits at five feet, comparable to midsize four-door trucks you see everywhere else.
The real space winner isn’t the back though. It’s the front.
Single-cab trucks usually suffer from having no locked storage. Not this one. The EV architecture clears room for a 7 cubic-foot front trunk. We stuffed two small roller bags inside with space to spare. No fumbling with bed locks. Just toss your gear and lock the door.
If you get the SUV, space explodes. 34 cubes behind the seats. Fold them flat? 58 cubes. Entering that second row feels surprisingly easy too, no contortions required through the single front door.
The Big Hype vs. The Belt Sander
Deliveries start Q4.
Slate claims 180,000 reservations. That sounds insane for a car that doesn’t exist yet. Are they real buyers? Maybe. We’ll see how many turn into paid orders once the clock runs out.
Production targets are 150,000 a year at full capacity. They aim to hit that number late next year. That is a steep climb from zero. The machinery is loud, the vision is narrow, and the price point is… bold.
It’s affordable.
Does affordable equal practical? Does it mean you won’t mind the 20-second merge onto the highway? Maybe the open trunk makes up for it.
Probably not. But $26,000 buys you a truck that actually drives.
