{"id":691,"date":"2025-07-04T10:14:05","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T06:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/slate-autos-electric-pickup-is-no-longer-under-20000-thanks-donald\/"},"modified":"2025-07-04T10:14:05","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T06:14:05","slug":"slate-autos-electric-pickup-is-no-longer-under-20000-thanks-donald","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/slate-autos-electric-pickup-is-no-longer-under-20000-thanks-donald\/","title":{"rendered":"Slate Auto\u2019s electric pickup is no longer \u2018under $20,000\u2019 \u2014 thanks, Donald"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The Slate Auto pickup with a banner above it that reads \u201cMid Twenties.\u201d\" data-caption=\"The old \u201cUnder $20,000\u201d banner has been replaced with \u201cMid Twenties.\u201d | Image: Slate Auto\" data-portal-copyright=\"Image: Slate Auto\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/07\/homepage-blank-slate-parking-lot-price-new.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\" \/><figcaption>\n\tThe old \u201cUnder $20,000\u201d banner has been replaced with \u201cMid Twenties.\u201d | Image: Slate Auto\t<\/figcaption><\/p><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Slate Auto\u2019s American-made electric pickup \u2014\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/electric-cars\/655527\/slate-electric-truck-price-paint-radio-bezos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the one with no paint, no stereo, and no touchscreen<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 is no longer priced \u201cunder $20,000.\u201d The increase is a result of Trump\u2019s \u201cBig, beautiful bill,\u201d which will\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/policy\/697879\/congress-house-senate-pass-trump-obbb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">end the federal EV tax credits<\/a>\u00a0on September 30th when signed into law later today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">That sub-$20,000 price for the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/658223\/slate-factory-electric-truck-location-indiana\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Indiana-built pickup<\/a> was a big selling point for the EV startup backed by Jeff Bezos, and was only possible after applying the $7,500 tax credit to the retail price. The price promotion was scrubbed from the Slate Auto site as recently as yesterday,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/07\/03\/slate-auto-drops-under-20000-pricing-after-trump-administration-ends-federal-ev-tax-credit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to\u00a0<em>TechCrunch<\/em><\/a>. The website now shows an expected price of \u201cmid-twenties.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Slate\u2019s under $20,000 price tag for a vehicle it won\u2019t start delivering until late 2026 was always accompanied by an asterisk, with fine print highlighting federal incentives that were \u201csubject to change.\u201d And change <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/electric-cars\/672911\/ev-tax-credit-elimninate-house-republican-bill\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/electric-cars\/672911\/ev-tax-credit-elimninate-house-republican-bill\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">was certainly expected<\/a>: Trump campaigned heavily on the promise to end President Biden\u2019s fictitious \u201cEV mandate,\u201d because electric cars are for socialists in MAGA world.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/07\/homepage-blank-slate-parking-lot-price.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,10.732984293194,100,78.534031413613\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" data-caption=\"&lt;em&gt;The old price promotion.&lt;\/em&gt; | Image: Slate Auto (via Web Archive)\" data-portal-copyright=\"Image: Slate Auto (via Web Archive)\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Trump\u2019s embrace of oil and gas, while simultaneously dismantling incentives meant to spur the adoption of EVs and clean energies, is a gift to Chinese makers of electric cars, solar panels, and batteries. The US is now on course to own the past while\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2025\/06\/30\/climate\/china-clean-energy-power.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">China is firmly positioned to dominate the future<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The old \u201cUnder $20,000\u201d banner has been replaced with \u201cMid Twenties.\u201d | Image: Slate Auto Slate Auto\u2019s American-made electric pickup [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}