Slate Auto will start taking orders for its low-cost EV on June 24

Slate Auto, the electrical conveyance startup backed by Jeff Bezos and LA Dodgers proprietor Mark Walter, has announced that it volition officially commencement taking orders for its low-cost electrical conveyance connected June 24, up of the archetypal deliveries precocious this year.

The institution sent retired emails to prospective buyers connected Thursday that encouraged them to marque a preservation present up of “preorders” starting adjacent month, successful bid to get a “delivery model earlier non-reservers.”

Slate inactive has not announced the starting terms for its EV, though. Previously, Slate said it would uncover last pricing successful June. The institution did not instantly respond to a petition for comment.

The four-year-old institution came retired of stealth successful April 2025 aft TechCrunch revealed its secretive plans to physique a low-cost, no-frills, customizable vehicle. Slate erstwhile touted that the basal mentation of its EV — which tin beryllium converted from a two-seater motortruck to a five-seater SUV, for a terms — would commencement astatine “under $20,000” with a $7,500 national taxation credit. But that recognition was killed by the Trump medication and Congress precocious past year, and Slate has remained tight-lipped astir pricing, lone saying the conveyance volition commencement successful the mid-$20,000 range.

The thought of a elemental EV with hand-crank windows and nary overgarment has resonated with consumers. More than 160,000 imaginable customers person made refundable $50 reservations with the startup since it revealed the EV past year. As different EV startups person shown implicit the past decade, though, it is not casual to person preservation holders to existent customers.

To assistance tackle this problem, Slate named a caller CEO successful March. The institution is present led by erstwhile Amazon Marketplace vice president Peter Faricy. (Many of Slate’s enactment positions person been filled with ex-Amazon executives.)

Slate has besides lined up immoderate superior fiscal firepower to tackle the hard task of gathering and shipping an EV. In April, the institution announced it closed a $650 cardinal Series C backing round, meaning it has raised astir $1.4 cardinal to date.

It appears that overmuch of that backing has travel from Walter’s fiscal firm, TWG Global. While Bezos was progressive successful Slate’s archetypal funding, his level of engagement successful successive rounds has ne'er been pinned down. In May, TechCrunch revealed that his household bureau manager had stepped down from her presumption connected Slate’s committee of directors.