Paywalled.

Anyone got a battery range on this vehicle?

How are they going to get around the backup camera requirement? I guess it could be done through your phone but that sounds like it might be a support nightmare.

It only seats two yet has a bed big enough to hold a sheet of plywood. It only does 150 miles on a charge, only comes in gray, and the only way to listen to music while driving is if you bring along your phone and a Bluetooth speaker.

Instead of steel or aluminum, the Slate Truck’s body panels are molded of plastic. Or, as Slate calls them, “injection molded polypropylene composite material.” The theory is that this makes them more durable and scratch-resistant, if only because the lack of paint means they’re one color all the way through.

By eliminating paint, and thus eliminating the paint shop, Slate’s manufacturing process is massively simplified. So, too, the lack of metal body parts. “We have no paint shop, we have no stamping,”

But does it break when water ?

I am excited, this is what my husband and I have been waiting for - a regular vehicle with no bells and whistles just to raise the price

No stereo is the only thing I would change

They could have put a screen in it so I can hook up my phone to it!

That's like the one thing I care about in the car being able to use android auto!

This will never come to market. Perhaps in a different timeline, but not this one.

Damn, an electric truck I might actually want. It's a shame it's made in America

Getting closer to what I want, which is a reasonably sized and priced EV truck built for actual utility. I'm ok with it leaving out all the extras that I don't need, and hopefully that means it isn't also going to be tracking people and harvesting their data.

My biggest objection to the truck itself is that it's still trying to look like an ICE truck. There's no engine in front, you could easily slide the cab forward a bit to make room for a larger bed. I would much rather have a tiny frunk and an 8 foot bed, even if it means making the whole thing slightly longer. It's shorter than a corrolla, so it's not like they couldn't add a little length to the design if necessary.

Bezos being involved is also a massive turn off, but than I'm not sure who is going to go into mass manufacturing EVs without some rich asshole funding it.

And no buyers

Am I reading this right and it only offers 1000lb towing capacity? Isn't that kind of utterly useless?

Because a decafe old TN panel touchscreen and a lick of paint was what made cars 70k.