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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ask just about anybody, and they’ll tell you that new cars are too expensive. In the wake of tariffs shaking the auto industry and with the Trump administration pledging to kill the federal EV ...

A company backed by Jeff Bezos, Slate Auto, just came out of stealth mode to unveil its first EV, and it's incredibly interesting. The Slate Pickup is a tiny and boxy, almost Kei-like truck that ...

Slate is developing a bare-bones, customizable electric truck with a starting price under $20,000 after federal incentives. The truck comes with minimal features, including crank windows and a ...

Lordstown, Bollinger, Canoo — recent history is littered with failed electric-truck startups that nobody will bother to record when the longer timelines are written. And now here comes Slate, ...

Seemingly out of nowhere, the newest electric vehicle maker on the block, Slate Auto, revealed its first EV today — the Slate Truck. The selling points harped by the company include a 150 mi ...