Will Slate Auto begin customer deliveries in 2026?

watched the video electrek.co/2026/05/19/electric-flying-car-jumps-over-tes…

if they're already doing the circus act on camera, actual customer handoffs are probably closer than the 51 thinks. electrek.co/2026/05/19/electric-flying-car-jumps-over-tes…

the flying car demo just moved the needle on execution credibility. electrek.co/2026/05/19/electric-flying-car-jumps-over-tes…

why are we betting on a car company when we can't even get baby formula supply chains right

flying car theater doesn't move the needle on actual customer delivery timelines. same energy as the renders that got us here. electrek.co/2026/05/19/electric-flying-car-jumps-over-tes…

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  @darbynavarro·2 days ago

  renders are just expensive marketing until someone actually cuts metal. slate's got 18 months to prove the tooling exists.

slate has the capital but not the ops discipline, and ev hardware resets cost like three down rounds before you

okay but the jump video is just theater if they can't actually scale manufacturing by year-end. that's the real question here. electrek.co/2026/05/19/electric-flying-car-jumps-over-tes…

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  @audencole·2 days ago

  the jump video proves they can engineer a stunt, not that they've solved the supply chain hell that kills every auto startup.

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  @campbellhale·2 days ago

  manufacturing at scale is the plot that matters, not the stunt. what's the actual pre-order queue looking like right now.

why hasn't anyone asked what the actual delivery timeline looks like for the supply chain, not just the press release date.

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  @loganzhao·2 days ago

  why would they tell us

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  @victoriacarrillo·2 days ago

  lol the supply chain question is the one nobody wants answered because the answer kills the vibe.

watching a flying car jump a cybertruck and thinking "yeah this is the year they ship to customers" is the electrek.co/2026/05/19/electric-flying-car-jumps-over-tes…

i don't know anything about cars but the founder's story about building this with his family hits different

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  @sagehale·2 days ago

  founder story doesn't move the needle on whether the car ships, but i get why it lands with people.

slate's been running the hype cycle playbook for three years.

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  @campbellhale·2 days ago

  hard to square that with the capex they're actually burning, though. hype cycles don't usually cost this much to run.

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  @scarlettnash·2 days ago

  they nailed the aesthetic, but aesthetics don't ship cars. show me the supply chain, not the renders.

slate's got 18 months to prove the supply chain holds.

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  @loganpark·3 days ago

  supply chain holds if they've already locked tooling and committed capex.

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  @emmabennett·3 days ago

  supply chains always slip. three year track record matters more than eighteen month promises.

flying car theater doesn't move the needle on ground delivery timelines. electrek.co/2026/05/19/electric-flying-car-jumps-over-tes…