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Slate does not wrap the vehicle at manufacturing time. You do it or a service center does it for you.

baby_souffle 3mo ago
Is that confirmed? I was under the impression that you could order wrap from factory and it would come wrapped and not in a kit ready for you to apply.
- vel0city 3mo ago
  The featured website here directly states you need to either install the wrap yourself or hire someone else to do it.
esseph 3mo ago
Untrue. Slate can wrap before delivery. > It will operate as the central shop where the modular two-door, two-passenger pickups will be wrapped in custom colors and finishes chosen by customers, with more than 100 color options available. https://news.dealershipguy.com/p/slate-auto-bets-on-customization-with-7-8m-wrap-facility-in-kentucky https://news.dealershipguy.com/p/slate-auto-bets-on-customiz... https://www.courier-journal.com/story/money/companies/2026/03/26/jeff-bezos-backed-ev-startup-slate-auto-coming-to-louisville-kentucky/89330890007/ https://www.courier-journal.com/story/money/companies/2026/0...
- vel0city 3mo ago
  Their current ordering website says otherwise. It directly states that customers will need to wrap their own cars or hire someone to do it. I'm also not entirely sure about this facility. Some places are saying this is a facility to produce wraps, as in they manufacture the wraps for others to install. Others suggest this will be a place to get the car wrapped. Is it both? Who knows. I haven't seen any official correspondence from the company directly clearing up what all this facility will actually do. According to the filing they did with The Kentucky Economic Development Finance Authority (KEDFA), the facility is to be a "vinyl wrap kit manufacturing and fulfillment facility." Usually a "fulfillment facility" is a logistics hub. It sounds more like a place where they'll manufacture the wraps and ship them out than a place where it'll be installed, but it isn't completely clear either way. See page 94-95 of the first PDF and page 14 of the second: https://cedky.com/cdn/140_KEDFA_Board_Book-_Mar_26_26.pdf?4-1 https://cedky.com/cdn/140_KEDFA_Board_Book-_Mar_26_26.pdf?4-... https://cedky.com/cdn/140__Mar_26_2026_KEDFA_Min.pdf https://cedky.com/cdn/140__Mar_26_2026_KEDFA_Min.pdf Maybe there was more said in the meeting, I don't know. But if they said it was for installation as well, it wasn't reflected in the meeting minutes. It would probably really change the scale of the operation though. About forty people for manufacturing, logistics, and installation of wraps for tons of cars? And you're going to need a facility to get a lot of cars through, quite a bit larger than some commercial printers and packaging machines. It would also seem strange to me to build the cars, ship them 200 miles, then wrap them, then ship them out to customers. Why not just wrap them in the Warsaw Indiana facility? Maybe they will eventually wrap them in the Indiana facility, who knows. But as it stands right now, if you order one of these Slates with a wrap, you better be ready to install it yourself or hire someone to do it. That's Slate's official stance on it currently.
  - esseph 3mo ago
    From their website: "Want the SUV kit, or a wrap? We’ll install them for you before we deliver your vehicle, for a little extra." https://www.slate.auto/en/personalization https://www.slate.auto/en/personalization
    - vel0city 3mo ago
      Ah, and I do see now on their website faq's it does list: > Order pre-installed: Pick your wrap when you purchase your Slate and have it arrive, wrapped and ready. Ok then! Strange they don't directly mention it on their build page. Would have probably been a better source to start with instead of an article about an article about a meeting with the KEDF.
      - esseph 3mo ago
        > Would have probably been a better source to start with instead of an article about an article about a meeting with the KEDF. Or you could have Google searched the website like I did for the same info and saved us all a lot of time ;)

Is that confirmed? I was under the impression that you could order wrap from factory and it would come wrapped and not in a kit ready for you to apply.

vel0city 3mo ago
The featured website here directly states you need to either install the wrap yourself or hire someone else to do it.

esseph 3mo ago

Untrue. Slate can wrap before delivery. > It will operate as the central shop where the modular two-door, two-passenger pickups will be wrapped in custom colors and finishes chosen by customers, with more than 100 color options available. https://news.dealershipguy.com/p/slate-auto-bets-on-customization-with-7-8m-wrap-facility-in-kentucky https://news.dealershipguy.com/p/slate-auto-bets-on-customiz... https://www.courier-journal.com/story/money/companies/2026/03/26/jeff-bezos-backed-ev-startup-slate-auto-coming-to-louisville-kentucky/89330890007/ https://www.courier-journal.com/story/money/companies/2026/0...

vel0city 3mo ago
Their current ordering website says otherwise. It directly states that customers will need to wrap their own cars or hire someone to do it. I'm also not entirely sure about this facility. Some places are saying this is a facility to produce wraps, as in they manufacture the wraps for others to install. Others suggest this will be a place to get the car wrapped. Is it both? Who knows. I haven't seen any official correspondence from the company directly clearing up what all this facility will actually do. According to the filing they did with The Kentucky Economic Development Finance Authority (KEDFA), the facility is to be a "vinyl wrap kit manufacturing and fulfillment facility." Usually a "fulfillment facility" is a logistics hub. It sounds more like a place where they'll manufacture the wraps and ship them out than a place where it'll be installed, but it isn't completely clear either way. See page 94-95 of the first PDF and page 14 of the second: https://cedky.com/cdn/140_KEDFA_Board_Book-_Mar_26_26.pdf?4-1 https://cedky.com/cdn/140_KEDFA_Board_Book-_Mar_26_26.pdf?4-... https://cedky.com/cdn/140__Mar_26_2026_KEDFA_Min.pdf https://cedky.com/cdn/140__Mar_26_2026_KEDFA_Min.pdf Maybe there was more said in the meeting, I don't know. But if they said it was for installation as well, it wasn't reflected in the meeting minutes. It would probably really change the scale of the operation though. About forty people for manufacturing, logistics, and installation of wraps for tons of cars? And you're going to need a facility to get a lot of cars through, quite a bit larger than some commercial printers and packaging machines. It would also seem strange to me to build the cars, ship them 200 miles, then wrap them, then ship them out to customers. Why not just wrap them in the Warsaw Indiana facility? Maybe they will eventually wrap them in the Indiana facility, who knows. But as it stands right now, if you order one of these Slates with a wrap, you better be ready to install it yourself or hire someone to do it. That's Slate's official stance on it currently.
- esseph 3mo ago
  From their website: "Want the SUV kit, or a wrap? We’ll install them for you before we deliver your vehicle, for a little extra." https://www.slate.auto/en/personalization https://www.slate.auto/en/personalization
  - vel0city 3mo ago
    Ah, and I do see now on their website faq's it does list: > Order pre-installed: Pick your wrap when you purchase your Slate and have it arrive, wrapped and ready. Ok then! Strange they don't directly mention it on their build page. Would have probably been a better source to start with instead of an article about an article about a meeting with the KEDF.
    - esseph 3mo ago
      > Would have probably been a better source to start with instead of an article about an article about a meeting with the KEDF. Or you could have Google searched the website like I did for the same info and saved us all a lot of time ;)