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.
  • ZC3rr0r@piefed.caEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Unlike Slate, Ford has access to their vast trove of sales information over the past 8 decades from their truck division. I am pretty sure they figured out that a truck at a 30k price point needs to be a crew cab or larger to sell in the volume they need to make it work for them financially.

    Unlike Slate, Ford is a business that needs to be profitable in what they do. They can’t start-up style burn through a bunch of investor money to see if a market exists for bare-bones single cab trucks.

    As a result I think both may well have a place in the market, and I am excited to see affordability overall coming back into the picture.

    • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 days ago

      As I recall, you can get the OG cab on food trucks, but it’s something that they primarily sell to fleets vehicles. Consumers usually want the extra cab storage.