I drove the Slate Truck — there’s more to it than EV minimalism

With its caller pickup, Slate Auto is making a elemental bet: terms matters much than astir thing else. The institution announced contiguous that the American-made electrical motortruck volition commencement astatine $24,950, placing it squarely successful the mid-$20,000 terms scope it had primitively promised and making it the slightest costly pickup motortruck and EV disposable today. At a clip erstwhile the mean caller conveyance costs astir doubly that amount, Slate is pitching thing that has go progressively uncommon successful the modern car market: a genuinely basal caller conveyance that doesn't look that way.

To deed that terms point, Slate stripped distant features galore drivers present instrumentality for granted. T …

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