Slate Auto’s CEO Peter Faricy says the company’s planned electric pickup truck, priced around $24,950–$25,000 in a bare-bones configuration, is expected to generate profitability on each vehicle. Faricy tells Quartz and CNBC that every truck produced will have a positive gross margin. He also links the company’s overall financial targets to production scale, saying the program’s break-even point is roughly 80,000 units per year. In a separate interview with CNBC, Faricy adds that Slate Auto aims to be cash-flow positive next year, framing profitability and cash-flow goals as part of its near-term business plan. The reporting describes a combination of per-unit gross margin positivity and a larger volume threshold needed to reach broader financial break-even. Across the outlets, both interviews attribute the outlook to the same executive and focus on expected margin performance and production targets, with no additional details about vehicle specifications, manufacturing costs, or external funding in the provided excerpts.