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Slate’s electric pickup starts at $24,950 with 205 miles of range, and both of those numbers are accurate. What is left out of them is most of what buyers assume a new car comes with.
The base truck, which Slate calls the Blank Slate, is a two-seater. The body panels are unpainted composite. The windows are hand-cranked. There is no infotainment screen and no stereo. The austerity is the product, and the options catalogue is the business model.
What the base price includes
A single 65 kWh lithium-iron-phosphate battery pack, roughly 63 kWh of it usable, feeds one rear motor rated at 201 hp. Slate quotes 205 miles of range, a figure it raised without raising the price. Reservations require a $300 deposit, more than 180,000 have been placed, and first deliveries are scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2026 from the company’s plant in Warsaw, Indiana.
The price ladder
The truck converts. A kit turns the two-seat pickup into a five-seat SUV or Fastback, adding a roll-bar structure and an enclosed rear cabin, and it takes the price to about $29,950.
From there, the catalogue does the work. Because the panels arrive unpainted, colour means a factory wrap: roughly $500 for a plain one, up to about $1,400 for a pattern. Dash speakers are $149.99, a centre speaker $249.99, and a three-piece 400-watt system lands near $400. Accessory wheels are $1,399.99 and off-road tyres $1,099.99. Front and rear bumper upgrades are $499.99 and $599.99. Running boards are $349.99, and a rooftop light bar is around $800.
Slate says it will offer more than 200 accessories at launch, over 80% of them under $500. Individually, none of that is expensive. Collectively, it adds up quickly: a fully loaded Fastback has been configured to $46,493 by reviewers working through the options list, and more restrained builds still clear $40,000.
How to read the number
The $24,950 figure is a pre-incentive price for a truck with nothing added to it. A version equipped the way most buyers would expect a new car to be equipped costs meaningfully more, and Slate has been direct about that rather than hiding it. The price to plan around is the one that comes out of the configurator with the options a given buyer actually wants, which for most people will land somewhere between the base truck and the $46,493 ceiling.
