{"id":1980,"date":"2025-07-03T23:55:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T23:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/slate-auto-drops-under-20000-pricing-after-trump-administration-ends-federal-ev-tax-credit\/"},"modified":"2025-07-03T23:55:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T23:55:08","slug":"slate-auto-drops-under-20000-pricing-after-trump-administration-ends-federal-ev-tax-credit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/slate-auto-drops-under-20000-pricing-after-trump-administration-ends-federal-ev-tax-credit\/","title":{"rendered":"Slate Auto drops \u2018under $20,000\u2019 pricing after Trump administration ends federal EV tax credit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Slate Auto, the&nbsp;electric vehicle startup backed by Jeff Bezos,&nbsp;has stopped promoting that its upcoming pickup truck will start &ldquo;under&nbsp;$20,000&rdquo; following&nbsp;passage of President Trump&rsquo;s tax cut bill. The bill, which is expected to be signed into law by Trump on July 4, will cause the federal EV tax credit to end in September &mdash; a $7,500 incentive that Slate had counted on to help its all-electric pickup clear that mark.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When Slate came out of stealth mode in April, the startup heavily promoted that its all-electric pickup would start at &ldquo;under $20,000&rdquo; with the $7,500 federal EV tax credit. That language was still on Slate&rsquo;s website as recently as yesterday according to the Web Archive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The change is a potential blow to the young company&rsquo;s attempt to make a radically affordable electric vehicle. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Slate didn&rsquo;t provide a precise price for the EV at its launch event; and it has yet to say what the actual starting price of its vehicle will be, sans-credit. A Slate spokesperson declined to comment on the change. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The company won&rsquo;t start building the truck until the end of 2026 at the earliest. Slate&rsquo;s business is also built around making this vehicle highly customizable, which means it&rsquo;s possible that few people will buy the base model to begin with.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The sub-$20,000 price had been a big attraction point for the brand new company&rsquo;s product, and it was a major focus following its April launch event.<\/p>\n<div class=\"internal-linking-related-contents\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/12-weeks-jail-for-school-it-support-technician-who-took-upskirt-videos-of-teachers\/\" class=\"template-1\"><span class=\"cta\">News :<\/span><span class=\"postTitle\">&lt;div&gt;12 weeks' jail for school IT support technician who took upskirt videos of teachers&lt;\/div&gt;<\/span><\/a><\/div><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The auto industry has &ldquo;driven prices to a place that most Americans simply can&rsquo;t afford,&rdquo; chief commercial officer Jeremy Snyder said during the event. &ldquo;But we&rsquo;re here to change that.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&ldquo;We are building the affordable vehicle that has long been promised but never been delivered,&rdquo; CEO Chris Barman added at the time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub>Slate Auto drops &lsquo;under $20,000&rsquo; pricing after Trump administration ends federal EV tax credit<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slate Auto, the&nbsp;electric vehicle startup backed by Jeff Bezos,&nbsp;has stopped promoting that its upcoming pickup truck will start &ldquo;under&nbsp;$20,000&rdquo; following&nbsp;passage of President Trump&rsquo;s tax cut bill. The bill, which is expected to be signed into law by Trump on July 4, will cause the federal EV tax credit to end in September &mdash; a $7,500&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/slate-auto-drops-under-20000-pricing-after-trump-administration-ends-federal-ev-tax-credit\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Slate Auto drops \u2018under $20,000\u2019 pricing after Trump administration ends federal EV tax credit&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1981,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}