A $20k electric truck with manual windows and no screens? Meet Slate Auto

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2025/04/amazon-backed-startup-wants-to-sell-a-bare-bones-ev-truck-for-20000/

by mixmastamyk • 1 year ago

68 133 1 year ago

I bet the lack of screens makes it a no-go for a lot of truck drivers. Without a screen, and backup cameras, pickup truck drivers will find it much, much harder to back into parking spots, especially the narrower parking spots in urban parking lots.

chvid• 1 year ago

Yes. A parking camera / screen is a straight up improvement compared to relying on windows and skill.

People who complain about screens are usually not complaining about that but rather about common functionality that used to be a single physical button now is buried deep inside a buggy menu system.

WarOnPrivacy6• 1 year ago

Yes. A parking camera / screen is a straight up improvement compared to relying on windows and skill.

Car screens and I don't get on. At all. For backing up, what works for me is a full check first and directly viewing while backing up, augmenting with mirrors.

Eyes-on is me being as safe as I can possibly be.

mixmastamyk5• 1 year ago

Article mentions backup cam is required now. Still, can't think of a reason I'd back into a space in a parking lot. Don't think I ever have. If I needed to for some reason, I'd lower the tailgate.

bediger40002• 1 year ago

The majority of pickups I see in Denver and NoCo parking spots are backed in. This behavior seemed to come on very suddenly, maybe 3 years ago. I rarely saw it, and then suddenly, 3 out of 4 pickups are backed in. Puzzled me until I realized that a rearview camera with the green/yellow/red markings on the image made all the difference.

fsckboy• 1 year ago

Still, can't think of a reason I'd back into a space in a parking lot

I back into spaces almost exclusively. reason: I see that I can do it when I arrive, and realize that exiting forward will be a breeze regardless of the future conditions (you are backing into an empty space, and forwarding into a space with other moving cars that are out of your control).

it's one forward lap and one backward lap, same difference, in addition to which I find steerability/maneuverability is much better with the "steering" wheels in the back, because after you get the forward aligned to enter the slot, you can simply steer away after that.

bsder2• 1 year ago

Still, can't think of a reason I'd back into a space in a parking lot.

Safety. Several organizations that have automotive fleets recommend it for that. Pulling in backwards is safer because everybody can see everybody while that is occurring. Pulling out forwards is safer because you have much wider field of view and you have to do less maneuvering.

Liability. If you are pulling out forward and someone doing 50 in the parking lot hits you, you have a much better chance of them being at fault. If you get hit backing up, it is almost always considered your fault irrespective of how stupid the other driver is being.

forgotusername6• 1 year ago

You can get into a smaller space by reversing in. In the UK there are parking lots where I would never attempt driving in forwards because it would take multiple back-forward movements to achieve it due to the width of the space.

zelon883• 1 year ago

This particular truck pictured appears to have a footprint about the size of a Toyota Camry, but with far greater rear visibility due to the additional headroom and no rear seat.

dharmab• 1 year ago

It's much more common to park a truck backed in than a car, in order to load the bed e.g. from a loading ramp or dock. The backup camera is great for lining the bed right up to where you are rolling on the cargo.

You _can_ do it without a camera, but the camera saves a ton of time.

defrost• 1 year ago

There's a niche here given the prevalance of smart phones.

The last tow truck I took a ride on (modern, tilt tray, full lifts, etc) was operated by the driver who happily and easily juggled two phones ... he had one in a cradle, the other hand held, used the cradle one to look up routes, bid for jobs, and general map operations.

At lights or when refueling he was talking on the free phone while cross referencing via text and map searches on the cradle phone.

Additionally the truck console had screens for reversing, etc.

Point being .. we live in a world where it reasonable to have physical control, screen free, relative "dumb" vehicle that still has a diagnostics bus and rear cameras and distance sensors that can accessed via the drivers phone or tablet.

With cable | wifi and auth or some kind the operators smart device can upload music to the cars sound system and the vehicle can return infomation and visuals from sensors .. perhaps.

inverted_flag• 1 year ago

Will younger generations actually plunk down $20,000 or more to own a Slate vehicle that won't go into production until the fourth quarter of 2026

Not worth devoting any brain cycles to this thing if it’s that far out still given how fast the situation in the US is changing.

to2i3u423i4j234• 1 year ago

Indeed - pretty much every single EV maker gets its most important physical bit, the batteries, from BYD.

tzs4• 1 year ago

No consumer EVs sold in the US use BYD batteries. There are some buses and commercial EVs in the US with BYD batteries.

US consumer EVs mostly use batteries from LG Energy Solution, Panasonic, and SK On.

mixmastamyk5• 1 year ago

Says no screens, but I'm interested in the absence of surveillance as well. If there's no telemetry/forced-apps I'd be interested.

I've asked before but still not sure how much information is given to a charger when you plug in an EV?

WarOnPrivacy6• 1 year ago

I feel ya but sabotaging telemetry still feels possible. De-screening a car seems solidly out of reach.

snailmailman• 1 year ago

I'm very curious how they are managing "no screens". I thought all vehicles in the U.S. were required to have rear-view cameras for safety. I'm curious how they are getting around that.

Edit: I now see that the article speculates that maybe there's a screen in the rear-view window for this. But I can't find anything concrete.

LegionMammal978• 1 year ago

My understanding is that the regulations require a certain amount of rear visibility, either directly in the mirror or via a rear-view camera. But the former likely wouldn't be possible with the bed in the way.

lyrrad• 1 year ago

The Verge reports that the rearview camera will be on "a small display behind the steering wheel as a gauge cluster."

https://www.theverge.com/electric-cars/655527/slate-electric...

jeffrallen• 1 year ago

The basic protocol from an AC charger to your car is, "hello, I have X amps available, don't take more or you will trip my circuit breaker". The car responds by charging at or below the current advertised.

When you charge in a context where the car unlocks the charger (i.e. Tesla Supercharger), the protocol must divulge the car's certificate, signed by the owner of the charging network (like mTLS). There would be privacy-preserving protocols for this, but they are not used in practice.

WarOnPrivacy6• 1 year ago

Price comes with a depressing caveat.

    at a starting price of less than $20,000, 
    assuming federal clean vehicle tax credits continue to exist.

NewJazz4• 1 year ago

That just means 27500 MSRP, still very low compared to the 70k-80k existing US options.

tzs4• 1 year ago

You are overestimating the price of EVs in the US. I was recently in the market for an EV and my budget wasn't anywhere near 70k and I found several options--way more than I had expected.

In the following when I saw "tax credit" I mean the federal $7500 tax credit. Many EV makers with models that do not qualify for the tax credit are offering an equivalent credit which I will call "tax match". For some that is a straight up $7500 off. For others it is only if you finance through them (but if you prefer to buy outright just finance and then pay it off right away).

It is this tax match that was responsible for there being way more cars in my price range than I thought there would be.

BTW, if you are leasing instead of buying the tax credit is generally available even for EVs that do not qualify when you buy them.

I'm mostly going to be giving prices and discounts as you would find them at a dealer to better reflect what you are actually looking at out of pocket.

• Nissan Leaf S for around $29k. Tax match plus some other Nissan bonuses that every dealer seems to be offering brings it to $20k.

• Nissan Leaf SV Plus for around $39k. $29k after tax match plus other common discounts from Nissan and dealers.

• Nissan Ariya $42k for FWD, $46k for AWD, or $35k and $38k after tax match.

• Chevy Equinox EV for $35k, $27.5 after tax credit. That's the FWD model and has a 319 mile range. $5k for an AWD model (which drops the range to 309). (AWD actually adds $3k, but the base AWD model has $2k of other packages that are optional on the $35k model. If you start with the $35k model and add the packages you want you will almost certain add those packages too, and so then going to AWD will just add $3k).

• Hyundai Kona SE at $33k or $26k after the tax match.

• Hyundai Kona SEL at $37k or $30k after the tax match. This is what I ended up buying.

• Kia Niro Wind for $40k (but really $42k because I think most dealers add the package that replaces resistance heating with a heat pump) or $35k after the tax match.

• Kia Niro Wave for $47k (with the heat pump package) or $39k with the tax match and other discounts I saw at most dealers.

• Toyota bZ4X for $40k FWD or $44 AWD. No tax credit and no official tax match but the dealer I visited really wanted to push it so offered about $5k in discounts and rebates and offered $3k more in trade for my 2006 Honda CR-V than anyone else did and something that I don't remember that brought the AWD down to $35k. Oh and also 0% financing.

• Chevy Blazer EV at around $49k or $42k with the tax credit. I've seen some big discounts on this. My nearest Chevy dealer has a $6500 "Discount for Everyone" on these which would bring it $36k. I currently don't see that anywhere else so it may just be that one dealer.

• Hyundai IONIQ 6 SEL at $52k or $44k after the tax match. IONIQ 5 SE is about the same.

• Subaru Soltera at $40k. No tax credit or match.

• Fiat 500e at $34k MSRP. Dealers seem to give a discount of around $2k.

• Volkswagen ID.4 is a little confusing. My nearest dealer has an 2025 ID.4 Limited for $42.5 MSRP. So do other dealers. But Volkswagen's site does not list a Limited. The lowest trim is the Pro at $45k MSRP. Anyway, no tax credit or match but it looks like there is some sort of $5k bonus going on so about $36k.

I think that might be all the current model EVs in the US that are generally available for under around $40k after widely available incentives.

There are also several between there and the $70k range you mentioned.

antisthenes• 1 year ago

Plenty of slightly used gas trucks under 27500.

zelon883• 1 year ago

I think it's perfect! I've fantasized about getting an old Nissan Hardbody, stuffing the bed with batteries and putting 2 overvoted forklift motors under the hood.

This is basically a reliable, commercially viable version of that concept.

guilamu• 1 year ago

Jerry rigs everything did just that with an old army humvee. https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0vZL9uwyfOFezIOiBjkdW3...

cactacea• 1 year ago

He also really messed it up and had someone else fix it for him

zelon883• 1 year ago

Using a Humvee I'd be concerned about the weight and the unnecessary rotating mass of the geared hubs.

WarOnPrivacy6• 1 year ago

It has a reasonable profile instead of engineering based on overactive pituitary glands. A truck that doesn't make roads more dangerous feels unamerican.

legitster• 1 year ago

I'm the weirdo who still likes crank handles. They are actually faster at opening/closing windows. And one less set of electronics to fail.

Americans complain about the lack of affordable cars, but can't be bothered to buy anything with less than 4 doors and AWD and 20 inch wheels. So good luck to these guys.

WarOnPrivacy6• 1 year ago

I'm the weirdo who still likes crank handles. They are actually faster at opening/closing windows.

Absolutely. Only one vehicle here has electric windows but that car was given to us. The other 6 vehicles are hand crank.

switch007• 1 year ago

Definitely easier and less cognitive overhead when wanting it just open an inch or two!

Rather than remembering the exact right amount of pressure for that mode on the switch

Marsymars3• 1 year ago

Rather than remembering the exact right amount of pressure for that mode on the switch

That depends a bit on models - there are various cars you can buy that don't have various modes of pressure - there's only a single mode, and the window stops moving when you let go of the switch.

bryanlarsen• 1 year ago

And one less set of electronics to fail.

In my experience, cranks are relatively complicated mechanical linkages, failed quite regularly and were sometimes not easy to repair.

OTOH, I've never seen an electronic opener fail since the 80's. Yes, sometimes they don't have the torque to open a window when it's iced closed, but that's an advantage, not a disadvantage -- the ability to put a lot of torque on a manual opener was the cause of many failures.

A couple of articles on the Slate have also pointed out that electric openers are cheaper than manual ones.

omgwtfbyobbq3• 1 year ago

Build it, please. The lack of affordable EVs in the US is depressing.

Ancalagon3• 1 year ago

Have you seen the used Tesla market lately?

bsder2• 1 year ago

Yeah, but have you seen the Tesla repair parts prices?

Buying a used car presupposes the ability to service it.

pazimzadeh2• 1 year ago

how much of the original range do they retain? you have to consider the price a new tesla battery (between $12,000 and $15,000)

omgwtfbyobbq3• 1 year ago

Prices are great on used 3/Y, but no one is offering an affordable pickup yet.

Ancalagon3• 1 year ago

C’mon you can’t be building ev’s in 2025 with less than 300 miles of range

dmoy• 1 year ago

I want a cheap ev with less than 150 miles of range for city use. With traffic here I'm literally never driving more than 100 miles a day, and virtually never driving more than 50 miles a day. I can charge at home, I don't care if it takes 12 hours.

But I'd want that car to be under $15k. That car doesn't exist, at least not in the US, so I'm still on an old ICE.

My current car is worth at most $5k, and I spend maybe $500/yr on gas.

stickfigure• 1 year ago

The car exists, you just have to look at used. About three years ago I bought a gently used 2013 Fiat 500e for $8k. It gets ~80mi range in the summer (a little less in the winter though). Super fun, drives like a gokart. Plugs into 110 and charges overnight.

My wife uses it for commuting and it's our standard "run to town" car. We have an ICE vehicle for trips.

Absolutely would buy again.

NewJazz4• 1 year ago

There is a nonprofit near me that has some trucks they use for hauling trash, weeds, and some misc equipment on occasion (they do habitat restoration). They rarely go more than 20 miles in a day. This would fit their needs perfectly, assuming they could cheaply charge it. They probably could figure something out, they already have a van with an RV style charger hooked up.

smallerize• 1 year ago

At 60 mph, it would take 5 hours to go 300 miles. I do that much driving in a day maybe once or twice a year. It's not a big deal.

Jtsummers3• 1 year ago

This truck only offers 150 miles in the base model. That's the problem. If you consider the round trip distance, unless you have a chance to charge it at your destination or reliably on your route it gives you about a 60-70 mile practical range from home. And that's if you do a there-and-back with no detours.

GP is pointing out that anything less than 300 is not practical, and they're not wrong. 150 miles, in particular, is just too low to be used for anything other than a basic commuter vehicle. It's useless on highways (try driving I-70 through KS in this thing) and if you change job sites more than once, you're likely to run out of range in one work day. Traveling between cities is going to be unreliable if you're not able to stop and charge at your destination. Live in Colorado Springs and want to go to Denver? You probably have to stop and charge before coming home.

constantcrying10• 1 year ago

That calculation does not work at all. 300 miles (presumably WLTP) range has nothing to with 300 miles of actual driving.

Additionally range dictates how often you have to charge. This does not matter if you can easily charge at home, but when you have to do it at public infrastructure it is obviously a hassle, which is increased with lack of range.

tstrimple• 1 year ago

The average US citizen drives 37 miles per day. A vehicle like this would satisfy the needs of the majority of the populace for the majority of their activities. With lower prices renting specialty vehicles for road trips or whatever makes a hell of a lot more sense.

constantcrying10• 1 year ago

Seems delusional. What would the majority of the population need a pickup for?

The SUV is in all likelihood quite uncomfortable, as it has to fit into the surrounding pickup.

Ancalagon3• 1 year ago

Do they also all have installed and available Level 2 chargers to recharge every other night?

I say this as an EV owner btw

tzs4• 1 year ago

I think people overestimate the importance of range. It is important, but not in the way most people probably think.

Consider for example a very long road trip, such as a drive from Los Angeles to New York which is around 2800 miles. Suppose Alice has a 200 mile range EV and Bob has a 300 mile range EV. Assume their cars both charge at 300 miles/hour.

What effects will the range difference have on their trips?

• If DC EV charging stations are too far apart the trip might not be feasible for Alice.

• Assuming DC EV stations are not too far apart for Alice, then she will have to stop to charge more often.

• Assuming both start fully charged, and during the trip they drive until 10% and then charge to 80% then Alice will drive 180 miles until her first recharge, and then recharge every 140 miles. Bob will drive 270 miles until his first recharge, and then recharge every 210 miles.

• Alice will have to recharge 20 times. Bob will have to recharge 13 times. That works out to be a stop about every 2 hours of driving for Alice and a stop every 3 hours of driving for Bob.

OK, that is a lot more stops for Alice. But lets look at the time spent stopped rather than the number of stops.

• Alice first stops with 2620 miles left to go. Her car recharges at 300 miles/hour, which means she needs 8h 44m of total charge time.

• Bob first stops with 2530 miles left to go. His car recharging at 300 miles/hour needs a total charge time of 8h 26m.

Let's assume the each charge stop adds 5 minutes of delay beyond the actual charging time. Alice stops 7 times more than Bob so has 35 more minutes of delay. Add that to the 18 minutes more Alice spends actually charging and we have Bob gets to New York 53 minutes ahead of Alice.

Suppose Alice's car could charge faster than Bob's? Say 500 miles/hour? Then she would only spend 5h 15m charging. That's 3h 11m less charging time than Bob. She'd still have 35 minutes of delay from more frequent charging but even with that she'd beat Bob to New York by 2h 36m.

This suggests that for long road trips charging rate may be more more important than range, as long as range is sufficient to let you reach DC charging stations.

spaceisballer• 1 year ago

I regret spending the money on the long range Model 3. It’s something I charge every day because I can at home. Sure I could charge it once a week for my commute, but I just charge it up to 80%. I would love this Slate as my commuter car. I miss my Ford Ranger with a manual transmission. Hopefully this thing has an efficient motor.

boznz• 1 year ago

I kind of like it, but re-use is the way to go, Problem is you get Tax credits for buying new EV but just a shit tonne of regulations and no money to convert your old truck; that was New Zealand five years ago. I really hope other countries have it easier as most older gas trucks are easy to convert to EV's at the end of their lives by a decent amateur.

I have a 1990 Hilux pickup working just fine as my daily driver, but it cost about US$20K to convert and with only 100KM range it is only effective as a second vehicle. Good news though is with a couple of future battery swaps it will only get better and should outlive me.

zoom6628• 1 year ago

Looks like is designed as a custom platform. The sort of things the kiddies will go mad over and build all sorts of custom rides. Bring it on!

trhway• 1 year ago

many of us would like to repeat and relive the tech magic like that of PC circa 90-ies and into 2000s.

The myth of the sub-$25,000 electric vehicle has been around for more than 10 years now,

Equinox EV is MSRP 33.6K before 7.5 tax rebate. Looks and sounds like a decent modern compact SUV.

screye2• 1 year ago

I accidentally flagged the post. Mods, please ignore the flag. The car looks great.

Jtsummers3• 1 year ago

You can unflag things you flag and there's no time limit on it. Just go to the top of the page and click on "unflag".

screye2• 1 year ago

did that but it still showed up greyed out. So replied for good measure.

__turbobrew__5• 1 year ago

I want a hilux champ to do odd jobs around town. It will never make it here because it doesn’t meet safety standards, I really wish the nanny state would let me make my own decisions.

shermantanktop2• 1 year ago

If it doesn’t meet safety standard that protect the driver of the vehicle, that’s one thing. But unsafe cars are sometimes unsafe for the other car.

__turbobrew__5• 1 year ago

Where I live you are much more likely to die getting hit by a logging truck than being harmed by a small utility truck without collision avoidance sensors.

Hell I almost died in a head on collision with a semi truck if I didn’t swerve out of the way. Commercial trucking is where safety should be emphasized, not people who just want a small utility vehicle to do jobs around town.

atoav3• 1 year ago

Safety standards are not only for you, for the biggest part they are for pedestrians, other vehicles an people that happen to be in the car with you.

When Americans complain about the "nanny state" I mentally replace it with "we collectively". Because that is what a state ought to be — a expression of collective will and common sense policy. If it isn't that way in your country currently, that isn't on the state, that is on the people who are supposed to hold the power. Quite frankly, an antagonistic perspective on "the state" might even help it becoming worse.

Collective rules are not needed if anybody just would act informed and reasonable. But that is not the case and never has been the case. Without a state the next-big entity (a company, some local war lord, a gang, a king) will become the force where the buck stops. Unless you want to be at their whim collective and divided power (Rule of Law) is the way to go.

I hope you do realize that what you're saying here could also be read as: "I really wish we (collectively) would let me (individually) make bad decisions that would hurt us (collectively) if everybody (individually) did it". But the ultra-individualistic insistance to not be part of society seems to be very trendy right now, and is usally made by people who rely on society to provide everything to them in ways they aren't even aware about.

__turbobrew__5• 1 year ago

A hilux champ without collision avoidance sensors is far from the most dangerous thing on the road.

I dont like the choice to hamstring millions of businesses and individuals who need legitimate work trucks from having a cheap and reliable option when those trucks would not be even close to the most dangerous thing on the road.

Dylan168077• 1 year ago

Please explain why you think that type of car is a danger to others, because otherwise your entire argument doesn't apply.

tpm• 1 year ago

I don't know what is 'here' in your case but individual imports/approvals exist and don't have to go through the same hurdles as type approvals.

__turbobrew__5• 1 year ago

Canada

consumer451• 1 year ago

Here is a video tour of the truck that just came out today:

https://youtu.be/out-F6n91qs

Bender2• 1 year ago

If this is void of telemetry, dial-home and other fascistic crap then I would seriously consider it. It's in a similar price range of street legal UTV's but with more room assuming it stays in that range when it launches.

diggernet2• 1 year ago

Sadly, their jobs site lists a position for "Flash Over-the-Air (FOTA) Validation Engineer".

Bender2• 1 year ago

That's unfortunate. Maybe I just need to be patient and wait until they are done battle hardening these things and don't need OTA or telemetry.

constantcrying10• 1 year ago

It is an interesting idea, but there is obviously a lot which can go wrong here.

Can you actually build an EV like that, conforming to all regulations, with significant cost reduction?

Do people actually want less screens or do they just say that? Is customization a road to profitability?(VWs ID.1 concept has a similar idea to lower entry price, by making several upgrades user installable, so they can be bought over time.

This is obviously a US only car and the US is very lacking in EV adoption. Will this sell in significant numbers?

Can you actually make it cheaply? Rivian is notoriously unprofitable and making cheap cars is, far, far harder than making expensive cars.

red-iron-pine2• 1 year ago

people definitely want less screens and have been loud about it for years now. the industry finally listened.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/touchscreens

https://cars.usnews.com/cars-trucks/features/automakers-reth...

constantcrying10• 1 year ago

Both articles are about touchscreens, doesn't really seem relevant.

In either case stated preference and revealed preference are different things.

sightbroke9• 1 year ago

Important to note these are touch screens.

I am not sure it's safe to associate wanting tactile controls equates to not wanting a clear screen for useful information. Like a backup camera.

BobaFloutist3• 1 year ago

Much more importantly, do people want hand-crank windows?!

jinushaun• 1 year ago

Seriously, people arguing over infotainment. What about the manual crank windows?!

ray_v• 1 year ago

Yeah, I would honestly love this. Less to go wrong == better. My passenger window has been broken for years now -- at a cost of over $500 to fix the motor, I just live with a non-functioning window. The warranty expense / savings on these types of things can really add up over time and I bet really helps the company stay profitable / viable.

M95D2• 1 year ago

Rather than relying on a built-in infotainment system, you'll use your phone plugged into a USB outlet

Absolutely horrible.

3-4 standard DIN slots with simple plastic covers would let users install anything they want: a 2-DIN player, a 1-DIN CB radio and a 1-DIN equalizer or amp or tachograph, or simple storage space.

BobaFloutist3• 1 year ago

I don't know, as long as I can do basic controls (pause, play, skip, previous, and maybe go ahead/back 10-20s if you're feeling nasty) this is basically my dream setup. Why futz with pairing and connecting via Bluetooth when you probably want to charge your phone anyway?

tzs4• 1 year ago

I keep an insert in my phone's USB-C port that blocks it. It would be kind of annoying to have to take it out whenever I want to connect the phone to the car and then put it back in when I leave the car.

I'm not actually sure that this is necessary with USB-C, but when I had Lightning phones I noticed that every so often they would stop charging when I plugged them in.

I determined that was from pocket lint getting into the port. Scraping the lint out with a toothpick would fix things. When I got a phone with wireless charging I switched to using that and put a cover on the Lightning port.

I kept the habit of using a port cover when I got a USB-C phone. I've not actually checked to see if pocket lint is a problem with USB-C ports.

M95D2• 1 year ago

Because basic controls belong on the steering wheel or at least physical buttons that you can find while looking at the road.

tw1984• 1 year ago

still a rip off. you can probably get the exact same spec for just $5k USD without tariffs

BobaFloutist3• 1 year ago

You wanted a bare-bones EV? Here it is.

It's a truck. I want a bare-bones compact EV.

Whatever happened to economy cars? I want a Corolla or a Civic-(hatchback if you must)-style EV. But, you know, before the screens.

mmmlinux• 1 year ago

Can't fit Braxley Jr and Aiden in the back of a civic with all their Lacrosse equipment. obviously everyone needs a big SUV now.

asoneth• 1 year ago

Between Slate and Telo[1] it seems like there's finally some new ideas for small electric trucks.

I totally get that some people's use-cases necessitate 300+ mile range, touchscreens, infotainment, DIN slots, four passengers plus a bunch of sheets of plywood, whatever. But why complain about the existence of a truck that doesn't meet your requirements if so many existing electric trucks already meet all of those requirements? Isn't it OK if other people want something different?

[1] https://www.telotrucks.com

kjohanson• 1 year ago

Bed is too short to be very practical. Also too expensive for what it is. I wanted a maverick but it’s a 4.5’ bed… Ended up with a 6’ Tacoma. You can find good condition used tacomas in the low 20s

A $20k electric truck with manual windows and no screens? Meet Slate Auto

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