Stateside, the very idea of a $20,000, after taxpayer subsidy, as is par for the course with electric vehicles, electric pickup with room for just two people and a modest amount of cargo in a tidy ...

Slate Auto hopes its modular, stripped-down vehicle will be the future of affordable EVs, but it has a long road ahead.

The other group migrated from Amazon, which is perhaps the world’s greatest logistics success story. The Slate Truck is, arguably, an Amazon Basics pickup. I’m willing to bet that these groups ...

Slate Auto's electric truck could revolutionize EV affordability if it can deliver on a sub-$20K pricetag. Tesla just isn't ...

has garnered the attention of high-profile investors like Amazon’s Jeff Bezos ... by America’s response to Slate’s brand launch and the launch of our truck,” said Jeremy Snyder, Slate ...

Elon Musk and Tesla Inc TSLA could have company soon with the launch of the Slate electric pickup truck, a new electric vehicle from a company backed by Amazon.com founder and Musk rival Jeff Bezos.

While an official international launch is not on the immediate horizon, the core philosophy driving Slate Auto, which is backed by Amazon's Jeff ... of the Slate Truck's development.

Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, two of the world’s richest individuals, compete with each other in more area than one, including space, EV trucks and satellites.

EV startup Slate Auto is moving quickly on plans to launch a sub-$30,000 mini-pickup out of a brownfield site in the Midwest, drawing 100,000 customer reservations and $700 million in financing ...

These are add-ons to turn the truck into an SUV mini and are such products as lift kits and off-road tires. Being backed by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Slate has the capital to weather the agonies ...

First, came Elon Musk and Tesla. Now we have Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and the Slate EV pickup truck. There’s already a sizable waiting list for the affordable, bare bones truck that customers can customize ...