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It kinda already is. Their teaser advertised price was 'under $20,000', because they were counting on rebates. Those rebates were cancelled. To my knowledge, they haven't published actual pricing yet, but those rebates were $7,000. So the actual price is now closer to $27,000.
Make no mistake, I am 100% rooting for Slate. But they've got a long road ahead. Keeping their price low is critical to their target audience. But that's much easier said than done.
Sorry guys, but EVs have a clear history of vaporware and bringing charlatans out of the woodwork. Bollinger, Canoo, Slate, Tesla, Nikola, Aptera, the list goes on and on. One bullshit prototype can get hauled around to media for a decade. The closest was Tesla but they will be gone in 2-3 years from making cars.