The virgin slate will have a 3,600 pound sidewalk weight, with an payload capacity of 1,430 pounds. The nominal towing capacity is listed at 1,000 pounds, a maximum towing capacity of 4,000 pounds in the new AWD Hybrid Ford Maverick 2025, which has a smaller loading bed but four doors for the larger cabin.
Visually, the slate follows the horizontal and square weapon profile of the two -seater classic American van – although made in miniature compared to the American microphones full of Ford, GM and RAM which collectively sell almost 3 million units per year. It looks like a retro Ford Ranger from the 1980s, compared to the more car style of the Hyundai Santa Fe, the only other little pick-up in the United States in addition to the Ford Maverick.
Dimensional, the slate is smaller than the maverick: it measures 175 inches long, 71 inches wide (without including the mirrors) and 69 inches high. This is compared to the 200 inch length of the Maverick, a width of 73 inches (still without mirrors) and a height of 68 or 69 inches. Slate offers a complete 6 -inch bed (5 feet), against the 54 inch of Maverick. (The two measurements are with the high tailgate.) Although the Maverick does not have a front trunk (it has an engine instead), the front trunk of the slate offers 7 cubic storage feet on the 37 cubic feet in the cargo bed (or 34 cubic feet in the SUV load bay).
Customer satisfaction
BARMAN said Slate will target retail buyers to establish the brand and get as many personalized trucks as possible on the road to strengthen public awareness. Slate electric vehicles will also be sold to corporate customers buying vehicles for fleets, known as Barman, although it has refused to offer a ventilation of the percentages of sales slate estimates will go to these two sectors.
We have not talked about this either, but it is worth mentioning: slate trucks can also be sold in Amazon. The connection is logical, because Slate Auto is emerged from a starting laboratory partially funded by the founder of Amazon, Jeff Bezos. The online retailer already deploys tens of thousands of Rivian EV delivery vans, but a smaller EV could also serve its objectives for specific uses.
Echo of the past
As Mark Twain quipped once, perhaps apocryphal: history is not repeated, but it often rhymes. Anyone who has been following the automotive activity for about 20 years may have read the news of Slate and felt a weak echo, a remote and long-forgotten memory shooting in the corners of their mind.
