Featured Slate is getting LFP batteries.

but the maverick doesn't have
Slate is getting LFP batteries

 

The Slate Truck’s real base price has finally been revealed

"the freight charge has been set at $1,450, which is the lowest destination fee of any pickup on sale in the U.S. Combined with the $24,950 starting price, and the least you'll pay for a new Slate truck is $26,400."

"Ford is working on a more practical four-door electric pickup that will cost under $30,000, while in the red corner, newcomer REO Industries says it will sell a small gas-powered truck called the Runabout, targeting a base MSRP of just $21,500 - no EV incentives necessary.
Even after these debut, Slate's small electric truck won't have any direct rivals, but success depends on how many of the hordes of internet fans celebrating this truck's creation put their money where their mouths are and follow through on a purchase."

 

Ford lies, I saw their lips move

 

I'm no fan of the FOMOCO but their Maverick is pretty popular, and....unlike the SLATE you can actually buy one instead of reading about them. Their closest competitor (a Hyundai something-or-other) is shaded by them 3:1.
Toyota is even eyeing building one because America has always loved the fact that you do not need some lumbering, large tyred, V8 mastodon to do most suburban truck things.
The REASON that there isn't a $20,000 2027 Dodge D50 on offer is a collision between the Climate Industrial Complex and corporate knowledge that if you built a $20,000 Dodge D50 with a normie power train nobody would buy the $40,000 alternatives.

I actually owe the Blue Oval company a bit of an apology.
I thought two things about them:
1. They had lib backside stank on their lips.
2. The Mav was making a small truck "harder than it had to be."

As it turns out?
OF COURSE they were prostituting themselves to the CIC - but it was EPA rules that made them make the Maverick the way that they did and they pretty much split the wickets between pandering to wokie politics and building the truck as a reliable hybrid capable of hitting the low 40's in MPG.
Besides.....I don't know if you could have gotten them in 2022, but they sell a normal-people version of the truck with the "me-too" turbocharged, direct-injection four-cylinder engine that all newer vehicles are using these days.
In this regard Ford doesn't suffer any more or less than all of the other OEMs suffering under the yoke of CAFE.

 

perhaps someone intent on derailing this thread should start one about low cost pickups available and potentially coming

 

If the for-real production Slate EV pickup truck uses a 65-kWh kilowatt-hour LFP battery pack, it might lend itself quite nicely to use for a home backup power plant since LPF batteries are often used in that role anyway......