Earlier this week, the Jeff Bezos-backed company unveiled the Slate Truck —a bare-bones EV pickup with a purported base price of around $20,000 to $25,000. Major hurdles remain before these EVs are cruising (at moderate speeds) down roads,

PCWorld isn’t a site about cars or trucks, so I thank my editor and you for indulging me in this story. To be clear, I’m a Texan who’s been raging at gigantic 20-foot-long F-150 pavement princesses for a more than a decade now—and yet,

Backed by Jeff Bezos and designed for flexibility over flash, the Slate Truck is an EV that trades luxury for affordability.