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Jeff Bezos-backed startup Slate Auto is launching a barebones electric truck for just $20,000 as it calls for a return to affordability after years of stubborn inflation drove everyday prices up.

Slate Auto, a Michigan-based startup backed by Jeff Bezos, has unveiled its first product—an ultra-affordable, minimalist electric pickup. Dubbed the Slate Truck, this two-seater EV is designed ...

Last night secretive startup Slate Auto revealed its compact electric pickup truck, dubbed a "blank slate" thanks to how modular it is. Every Slate truck will leave the factory in a single spec ...

Chinese electric car maker BYD’s doubled its profits to $1.3 billion in the first quarter as it continues to surge past its key rival, Elon Musk’s Tesla. The Shenzhen-based firm — whose ...

Just when we thought we’d exhausted all talk of a billionaire’s electric pickup truck, another one casually slides into the chat. This time around it’s a truck from Slate Auto, a new ...

In one of the strangest launches we’ve seen in a while, Slate Auto, the reportedly Jeff Bezos-backed electric vehicle startup, unveiled its first EV, the Slate Truck. Notably, the vehicle is ...

After a brief but very buzzy teaser campaign, Jeff Bezos–backed startup Slate Auto just revealed its electric pickup at an event in Long Beach, California. The extremely simple, refreshingly ...

"There are a lot of people who just need an affordable car." The country's electric vehicle market has an affordability problem. Enter Slate, a new company backed by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and two ...

Auto industry veteran Chris Barman is a modest 5 feet, 2 inches tall. However, that didn’t stop her from being the point guard for her high school basketball team in Crown Point, Indiana.

Eileen Falkenberg-Hull leads the Autos team at Newsweek. She has written extensively about the auto industry for U.S. News & World Report, CarGurus, Trucks.com, AutomotiveMap, and American City ...

Amazon-backed Slate Auto arrives out of the blue with tantalizing product Ultra-simple pick-up truck is designed for everyday use Expected EV range is up to 240 miles Seemingly out of the blue, an ...