Bezos Backed Company Coming Out With No-frills Ev Truck

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Perhaps you’ve heard of a nary frills supermarket ? Well if you are shopping for a caller motortruck and are successful nan marketplace for an electrical conveyance astatine nan aforesaid time, a institution backed by 1 of nan richest men, has travel retired pinch an inexpensive option. Jeff Bezos’s Slate Auto has unveiled
its first EV pickup.
It has a boxy exterior that engadget calls a Kei-like truck, meaning a mini lightweight conveyance pinch very fewer features. In different words, a guidelines aliases bare bones model. The institution calls it a “plug and play”.
The Slate Pickup has 2 seats, a motortruck furniture astir nan size of a portion of plywood, assemblage panels made of integrative and 1 color, grey. By comparison it is astir 2 feet shorter than nan Ford truck, known arsenic nan Maverick.
The bully news is location appears to beryllium little chance of distracted driving than your emblematic truck. There is nary stereo aliases touchscreen up front, conscionable a telephone equine and USB port. The database value is $27,500 that, pinch a authorities taxation in installments for buying an electrical vehicle, brings nan value down to an moreover $20,000 aliases what nan institution told ABC News is simply a “ radically affordable and customizable vehicle. “ By comparison, Cox Automotive says nan mean value for an electrical conveyance successful March was a spot much than $59,000.
A promotional video, released by Slate, really promotes what nan Slate Pickup does **not** have. It boasts nary fancy screens, colored seats, cooled seats, aforesaid driving, aforesaid parking aliases moreover automatic cup holders.
However, Slate, for illustration a edifice menu, offers customers a chance to add-on amenities specified arsenic screens, unfastened aerial kits, speakers, a spare tyre holder and you tin wrap it successful immoderate color. Here’s different drawback aliases attraction, you tin bargain an accessory that turns it into an SUV.
The added features will raise nan value by astir $10,000.
And nan motto is “We built it, you make it “ aliases arsenic CEO Chris Barman says successful nan video, it’s for illustration a murphy head, arsenic successful Mr. Potato Head, nan children’s toy. In different words, erstwhile you person nan main body, past you can…add nan parts.
Production of nan Slate Pickup is group to statesman successful precocious 2026.