Slate's Electric Truck and SUV
Jeff Bezos is one of the investors behind Slate, the new electric brand whose base model just became the cheapest new vehicle of its kind sold in America. Slate's founders, including former longtime Amazon executive Jeff Wilkes, built it around a deliberately bare chassis: steel wheels, crank windows, no infotainment screen, and a single rear-mounted motor that makes 181 hp. The same two-seat pickup bolts into a five-seat SUV with a flat-pack roll-bar kit, in either a boxed Squareback roofline or a sloped Fastback, no certified mechanic required. The Professional pack applies the Fastback kit with a full black wrap and contrast wheels. A 65-kWh LFP battery delivers an estimated 205 miles of range, and even with the vehicle's smaller size, it's rated to tow 2,000 lb and carry 1,550 lb of payload, figures most small EVs couldn't come close to matching. Slate sells direct to buyers and backs it all with an accessory catalog of more than 200 parts to swap in, so the blank canvas can take whatever shape you have in mind.
