Buzzy New Ev Startup Slate Slat Auto has collected over 100,000 reservations for its low -cost electrical pickup truck, the company confirmed to Techcrunch.
Jacania crossed the milestone during the weekend, just over two weeks after leaving the invisible mode and having revealed the truck during an event in Los Angeles, California. The company has declared that the truck will begin below $ 20,000 after applying the Federal EV tax credit from $ 7,500 and plans to build vehicles in a former Warsaw printing system, Indian, as the first time Techcrunch.
“We are really humiliated by the American response to the launch of the Slate brand and the launch of our truck,” said Jeremy Snyder, Chief Commercial Officer of Slate in a declaration in Techcrunch. “We are enthusiastic about what the future reserves.”
The collection of 100,000 reservations so quickly is a sign of how much interest has been in slate since it revealed the truck, but it is not to ensure that these reservations will translate into sales. The company is only asking potential buyers to lower $ 50 to reserve their place in line to order the truck in the end; The Commission is refundable.
Many other EV startups have propagated the reserves in the past only in order not to live up to the expectations of so large and round numbers. Fisker asked for bankruptcy after selling only a few thousand SUV Ocean despite having claimed once more than 60,000 reserves. In the meantime, Lordstown Motors has been accused by the Securities and Exchange Commission (sec) for misleading investors on the number of “pre -orders” for their electric retirement truck. (Lordstown Motors presented the bankruptcy in the same way and in the end he settled with the century)
Slate has great objectives for its truck, which – for a price currently not disclosed – can also be transformed into an SUV. The company says that it will have the ability to do 150,000 vehicles by the end of 2027 in the Indiana factory. And he has great supporters who help slate to look for this goal, including Jeff Bezos (through his family office, Bezos Expeditions), the Guggenheim Partners Mark Walter CEO and the VC General Catalyst company.
