So, is Slate's truck dead on arrival? Without Slate being able to hold its core marketing selling point of a sub-$20,000 ...

With a targeted price tag of just $30,000, the new battery-electric pickup Ford Motor Co. announced this week promises good ...

"I have always liked simple, low-cost vehicles, which are all but extinct on new car lots," says photographer and auto enthusiast Paul Kuehnel.

Ford is looking to save cost with both vehicle and manufacturing efficiencies.

The Slate Truck promised to be an affordable, customizable, and basic electric pickup for under $20,000, but the EV tax incentive expires in September. Despite being bare-bones, the Slate comes ...

Slate Auto dubs the upcoming electric truck "tall guy approved". The average height for men in the United States is 5'9 and the average height for women is 5'4, according to World Population Review.

They'll all be slate gray (duh!), and you'll be able to vinyl wrap yours. You can convert the truck into an SUV or a fastback. Supposedly, they'll cost $25,000-ish, and they're EVs.

Slate calls its accessories "Slatelets," and that's also apparently at trademarked name. Slate doesn't really explain the name, and we're left to guess what the thought process was behind it.

Just enough truck Enter the Slate. A startup partly funded by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos (more on that in a moment), the Slate is a small electric pickup with seating for two and a five-foot bed.