At $26,400 before tax, the Slate Blank Slate pickup officially undercuts every new EV and every new truck on sale in the United States. Slate’s head of PR, Jeff Jablansky, confirmed to InsideEVs that the $1,450 destination charge — itself the lowest of any pickup sold in the U.S. — brings the $24,950 base MSRP to its final pre-tax number. That figure lands roughly $32,000 below a Chevy Silverado EV and about $44,000 south of a Tesla Cybertruck. The gap is enormous. So are the caveats.
The base truck is a two-seat, single-cab pickup with a five-foot bed, 181 horsepower routed exclusively to the rear wheels, and roughly 205 miles of estimated range from a 63–65 kWh battery pack. Standard equipment? A federally mandated backup camera feeding a small display. That’s it. No radio. No touchscreen. No power windows or mirrors. No paint — the composite body panels arrive in raw finish, and color costs extra via wraps. The full price ladder breaks down like this:
- Blank Slate truck: $24,950 + $1,450 destination = $26,400
- Squareback SUV kit (adds rear seats): $29,950 + destination = $31,400
- Fastback SUV: ~$31,950 before destination (~$33,400 estimated, not yet confirmed by Slate)
- Fully loaded Fastback: configurator builds have topped $46,000, according to both Car and Driver and The Weekly Driver
The Cheapest Truck in America – With an Asterisk
Once you start adding the basics back in, that headline price climbs faster than you’d expect.
The Slate configurator works a lot like a video game store: the base character ships in essentially underwear, and every useful item costs extra. Want speakers? Pay up. Power windows? Add-on. A coat of color? Wrap fee. By the time you’ve checked enough boxes to match what a Nissan Leaf includes from the factory, that $26,400 floor can quietly creep toward $46,000 — a figure both Car and Driver and The Weekly Driver confirmed through their own configurator runs.
“Slate’s destination charge will be the lowest for any pickup truck in the U.S” — Jeff Jablansky, Slate’s head of PR, via InsideEVs.
Competition is closing in, too. Ford reportedly plans a sub-$30,000 electric truck around 2027 — four doors, actual speakers, and a screen included as standard. The Bolt EV and Leaf already offer more range, more doors, and richer standard equipment at comparable prices, though neither comes with a truck bed or Slate’s modular SUV body options.
Production is set to begin at Slate’s Indiana plant by the end of 2026, with deliveries following shortly after, and preorders are open now. For the buyer who hates touchscreens, enjoys customizing their own setup, and wants a genuinely blank canvas on wheels, this truck makes real sense. For everyone else, $26,400 is where the conversation starts — not where it ends.
