Overview
- Slate announced the base Blank Slate pickup starts at $24,950 and opened $300 nonrefundable preorders with first deliveries planned for late 2026.
- The company says it has about 180,000 reservations that it must convert into paid orders to hit its planned production ramp at a converted Warsaw, Indiana plant.
- Slate confirmed a single 64–65 kWh LFP battery, a rear motor rated near 181 horsepower, an estimated 205 miles of range, and compatibility with Tesla’s NACS Supercharger network.
- The vehicle is intentionally bare by design — hand-crank windows, no factory paint, no built-in infotainment — with a $5,000 owner-installable SUV conversion and an accessories marketplace for upsells.
- Backed by roughly $1.3–1.4 billion in funding including Bezos’s family office, Slate says it will be gross-margin positive per vehicle and aims for positive free cash flow and EBITDA by 2027.