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The best lightweight electric bikes will give you a ride that's not too dissimilar to a non-assisted bike but with an added electrical power boost. Turn to the best electric road bikes and the ...
Jeff Bezos-backed startup Slate Auto is launching a barebones electric truck for just $20,000 as it calls for a return to affordability after years of stubborn inflation drove everyday prices up.
Slate Auto, a Michigan-based startup backed by Jeff Bezos, has unveiled its first product—an ultra-affordable, minimalist electric pickup. Dubbed the Slate Truck, this two-seater EV is designed ...
Chinese electric car maker BYD’s doubled its profits to $1.3 billion in the first quarter as it continues to surge past its key rival, Elon Musk’s Tesla. The Shenzhen-based firm — whose ...
Slate says its new 201-hp electric vehicle is "a radical truck platform so customizable that it can transform from a 2-seat pickup to a 5-seat SUV.” They claim it'll go 150 miles on a 52.7-kWh ...
Syracuse, N.Y. – National Grid today unveiled a proposed rate settlement with New York regulators that would increase a typical household’s electric and gas bill by $22 a month starting in ...
Just when we thought we’d exhausted all talk of a billionaire’s electric pickup truck, another one casually slides into the chat. This time around it’s a truck from Slate Auto, a new ...
Slate Auto, an electric vehicle startup backed by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, unveiled its inaugural truck the company says starts at a price of $20,000 for the most bare-bones version, a lower price ...
In one of the strangest launches we’ve seen in a while, Slate Auto, the reportedly Jeff Bezos-backed electric vehicle startup, unveiled its first EV, the Slate Truck. Notably, the vehicle is ...
After a brief but very buzzy teaser campaign, Jeff Bezos–backed startup Slate Auto just revealed its electric pickup at an event in Long Beach, California. The extremely simple, refreshingly ...
"There are a lot of people who just need an affordable car." The country's electric vehicle market has an affordability problem. Enter Slate, a new company backed by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and two ...
Auto industry veteran Chris Barman is a modest 5 feet, 2 inches tall. However, that didn’t stop her from being the point guard for her high school basketball team in Crown Point, Indiana.