Please make a 4x4 model I will definitely buy one.
5ft bed and auto high beams, no thanks
It’s backed by Bezos. Wouldn’t even consider it for that reason alone.
It only seats two yet has a bed big enough to hold a sheet of plywood. It only does 150 miles on a charge, only comes in gray, and the only way to listen to music while driving is if you bring along your phone and a Bluetooth speaker.
Instead of steel or aluminum, the Slate Truck’s body panels are molded of plastic. Or, as Slate calls them, “injection molded polypropylene composite material.” The theory is that this makes them more durable and scratch-resistant, if only because the lack of paint means they’re one color all the way through.
By eliminating paint, and thus eliminating the paint shop, Slate’s manufacturing process is massively simplified. So, too, the lack of metal body parts. “We have no paint shop, we have no stamping,”
I can’t make 150 mile range work. That completely kills this one for me, personally.
Also, if it’s 150 mile range, that means it’s 100 miles with using the truck bed for light truck stuff, and probably a 75 mile range if it’s cold out while doing truck stuff. Be great for a lot of people, but I have to get a 250 range for my viability.
They have a larger battery available.
Someone posted link to Telo trucks,
350 mile range according to the website, footprint is same as a minicooper
Can fit 8’ sheets of plywlood or seating for 8 people depending on configuration of the midsection
Model is MT1 that states it.
If this thing is legit its a beast in a small package
Plastic with no paint is not going to do well in places like the Southwest. But I’m sure that getting it painted or wrapped won’t be a huge deal.
Many vehicles have some sort of MIC paneling these days. It does fine in the SW.
You can paint it if you’d like.
It does fine for a few years, but eventually starts sun bleaching and looking terrible. Seen a lot of hacks to make it look better, but the plastic still gets brittle and dry. A coat of paint or spray on bed liner does wonders to fight that.
Seems like half the article is talking about paint.
Glad someone has the balls to produce a truck people actually want. Give me power windows, locks, radio, cruise and a cheap radio and I am fine. I guess I throw in 4x4 because I live in Colorado.
I would love to also see an ice or a hybrid version of this truck too. This is exactly want so many people are wanting right now. Very excited to see this EV when it hits the road
The design is bad. The front trunk is a bad use of space, and the Japanese figured this out decades ago with the Kei truck. If you want see real utility, look at this design.
See, tariffs work!
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No stereo is fine if it has ports for me to just buy my own car stereo kit and add it afterwards. I don’t see the point of no paint, like don’t you need it to protect the metal from the environment
no touchscreen
Sounds like a dream. Or public transport. It doesn’t have touchscreen either.
No stereo is the only thing I would chsnge
Features I look for in a car
- 4 wheels
- radio
- power windows
- reverse cam
How hard is this?
I would also include seats. And maybe doors. Also a windshield.
Kind of like what Steve Martin looks for in cars:
- 4 Fucking Wheels
- A seat
It has all of that except the radio x3
I thought I read that it has crank windows.
Legally, you need quite a few more features than this just to be able to sell it.
From caranddriver with no sign-in requirement.
Apart from its digital gauge cluster that also serves as the rearview camera display, power locks, cruise control, and a forward-collision-warning system with automated emergency braking, the Truck offers little in the way of luxuries.
Sounds nice. I do like highway lane following, but not essential.
Yes, please!
We need a wider range of vehicle prices on the market. I bet a lot of people would go for barebones models for cheap if they had the option.
Perfect except for it being a truck. Why is North America allergic to small cars?
Trucks are incredibly useful?
Stupidity, plain and simple.
Also, bad women drivers.
I have an answer for this that’s from my personal life if that’s helpful.
I’ve lived either in the great plains or in the rural south my entire life, and I only found out a year ago you can pay $20 to rent a pickup truck. So up until that point, I thought, every group (of friends or family) has to have a person with a truck in it, in case someone needs to move, or in case of an emergency (like a tornado effing up their house and now you have to clear the property).
When I found out that renting a truck is so cheap, I was so mad! All that time wasted paying extra for more car than I needed! I prefer something small and cheap and efficient, personally, but so does everyone else I know so I always wound up with the truck. (And I helped a LOT of people move over the years as a result.)
Obviously this is n=1 but at least it’s my story? And my answer is legit, “ignorance and being too poor to own my house, and landlords like to jack rent on someone staying in one place every year so you have to keep moving to avoid that needless creep of fees.”
My hope is this will be another nail in the coffin for the giant bro dozers. Everybody I know who does actual real truck stuff have been crying for this exact vehicle for years. A small (in American terms) utilitarian vehicle for getting your truck stuff done. Essentially an American kei truck
Plus I think there have been a lot of small smart-car sized EV offerings, but I can’t really think of a small truck besides the Telo truck.
I hate that Bezos backed them
You’d be fine if it was a billionaire you’ve never heard of.
Stop being stupid.
Stop being an asshole.
Learn to take criticism.
When you got unlimited money, you have a finger in everyone’s pie. An unfortunate reality.
