The company has confirmed the Tech Crunch that the Bozi New EV Startup Slate Auto has received more than 100,000 reservations for its custom low -cost electric pickup truck.
Slate crossed the milestone over the weekend, after two weeks of coming out of stealth mode and The truck’s masked In a program in Los Angeles, California. The company has said that after implementing the Federal EV tax credit of 7,500, 000 will start below 20,000 and plans to build vehicles at a former printing plant in Indiana’s Warsaw. Reported first.
“We are really humiliated by the US response to the launch of the Slate brand and the release of our truck,” Slate’s chief commercial officer Jeremy Snider told Tech Crunch. “We are passionate about the future.”
Collecting 100,000 reservations is a sign of how much it has been interested in the slate since the truck was disclosed, but there is no guarantee that these reservations will be translated into sales. The company is just telling potential buyers to reduce their space to keep their space safer in line to order a truck. The fee is a refund.
Many other EV startups have in the past eliminated reservations to fail to meet the expectations of such big, round numbers. Fashkar filed for bankruptcy, which once sold only a few thousand marine SUVs. Sue Over 60,000 reservations. Meanwhile Lord Stown Motors was Charge The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to mislead investors about the number of “advances” for their electric pickup truck. (Lord Stown Motors also filed a similar bankruptcy and eventually settled with the SEC.)
There are major targets for your own truck, which can currently be converted to SUV for an unknown price – for an unknown price. The company says it will have the capacity to build a maximum of 150,000 vehicles in the Indiana factory by the end of 2027. And there are big supporters who help the slate to try to reach this goal, including Jeff Bezos –