oh its from the usa and bezos involved? well no thanks.
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Do u have any better recommendations for EVs available in the USA that don't have a rich dickhead involved? The slate truck looks very appealing I'm not gonna lie!
Is the Rivian owner an asshole too? I don't know enough about him honestly that's the only one I'm not too familiar with.
The Nissan leaf is always an option though they seem to be well received. And the bigger model one of the Nissan electric line I can't remember the name.
I could never support Nissan after all their predatory loan tactics, their fucking sheisters and feed on poor people! Can't speak on rivian don't know much about the company besides their too expensive lol well over 2x price of a slate.
Wasn't Rivian owned by Amazon too?
I didn't know this if it was!
Wikipedia says they own 18.1% of it.
After seeing the bumper repair I'll pass there
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Something about this vehicle not mentioned: Because of the easily replaced plastic panels, insurance should be a lot less expensive.
But of course, meth heads are going to start stealing panels now.
And do what with them? Scrap yard don't buy plastic.
If they sell enough trucks for meth heads to profit in the grey market by stealing the plastic panels, that's a huge win
Enter the aftermarket replacement panel bolts with security heads. Now they can only mangle the panels while trying to remove them!
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These are going to sell out so fast and I'm here for it.
Might be cheaper to buy a used kei truck and convert it to biodiesel or electric.
As Canadian…
American company?, nope
Owned by Bezos?, hell nah
Bezos was one investor, not the owner
Slate raised at least $111 million in Series A financing, including an undisclosed amount from Bezos. Slate then raised $600 million in 2024 from Mark Walter, the controlling owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers and CEO of Guggenheim Partners, Jeff Bezos, and General Catalyst, a venture capital firm.[5] In mid-2026, the company said it had completed a $650m series C investment round, which took its total capital raised to $1.4bn.[6]
Bezos was seed money AND part of the owner conglomerate that raised all the capital the company started with in 2024. That is enough for me to avoid this like the plague as it will, certain as the sun is hot, be enshitified to the core
If you do not believe me, here is an article explaining how this is all a big Amazon initiative
https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/08/inside-the-ev-startup-secretly-backed-by-jeff-bezos/
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The original price of 24950 included the federal tax rebate. This is why they used cheaper batteries and other cost cutting to try to keep the price the same. The rebates are gone.
Interesting, the telematics module is sold separately at $275.00. So for everyone worrying about spying, for this vehicle you got to opt-in and pay extra for it.
Never mind the low price, not having that shit built in is the killer feature for me, making it the only new car I would even consider buying. (It's just too bad they won't have a 4x4 version for another couple of years.)
It is kinda good that there's an optional module available, though, because it means there's an interface that, in theory, a third-party module running Free Software could hook into.
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Hello Nissan and Toyota. Where are your small EV and hybrid pick-up trucks?
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Why do EV companies keep trying to make electric trucks, it seems like the least efficient form when it comes to getting long range out of a car, is it that insecure American men won't buy a ev if it wasn't in the gender affirming shape of a truck
Ding ding ding congratulations!
Tell them what they've won!
I hate the state of current website reporting.
so many sites give so much information but absolutely refuses to provide the original website or source. Instead, deciding to send the viewer through ClickHell as they try to navigate their own website sending the user in circles usually via links that go to their own pages to propagate views/clicks. I hate it
How hard is it to just link to the Slate's main webpage after reporting on the product that way, the viewer can look at it themselves. Not one of the web pages they link there or any of the pages in said links lead to the actual vehicles site that they are reporting on.
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