“It’s a real truck.” That was my first thought as a $24,950 2027 Slate electric pickup accelerated down Figueroa Street on a cool Los Angeles morning this week.
I didn’t realize just how skeptical I’d been of Slate’s do-it-yourself EV till that moment. Pieces didn’t fall off. The wind didn’t whistle through gaps in the body work. Bumps didn’t rattle my teeth and twist my spine. It’s a real truck.
Attention must be paid.
The start-up’s success is by no means assured, but you can bet established automakers will be among Slate’s first customers: “How’d they do it? What’d we miss? What can we copy? Is this trouble?”
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