A fledgling US start-up backed by Amazon chief Jeff Bezos has unveiled a new low-cost pick-up truck that can easily be converted into an SUV.The Slate Truck is "a radically simple electric pick-up ...

On The Vergecast: cheap EVs, ditching your smartphone, and the new “Windows MacBook Air.” ...

The excellent Tim Stevens joins The Vergecast to talk all things Slate, which recently unveiled its first product, an extremely barebones,, all-electric, two-seater pickup truck. Tune in as Tim and ...

Plus, Slate's EV will be built at the anti-Gigafactory and Tesla is going on a hiring spree to launch the Semi.

Despite the bump that it received last week after Elon Musk’s earnings announcement, Tesla (TSLA) is still facing an uphill ...

The EV world isn’t short on flashy new vehicles, but few newcomers seem to truly understand the needs of daily drivers who ...

Michigan-based startup Slate Auto has shown off an extremely affordable, all-electric pickup truck. The Slate Truck is a ...

After seeing it for ourselves, we say the Slate Truck could be the next Landmark Car — or, just as easily, yet another failed ...

When Jeff Bezos backs a car company, the industry ought to pay attention—or at least pretend to while quietly sweating into ...

The debut of the SLATE pickup truck took a lot of people by surprise, not just because of its low pricing, but because it's a ...

Slate Auto is a new Michigan-based EV startup backed by Jeff Bezos. Its CEO, Chris Barman, explains how it's making a $25,000 ...

There's a new American automaker on the block, and it's taking aim at a sorely neglected segment of the electric car market.