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Electric Vehicles are a key part of our tomorrow and how we get there. If we can get all the fossil fuel vehicles off our roads, out of our seas and out of our skies, we'll have a much better environment. This community is where we discuss the various different vehicles and news stories regarding electric transportation.

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USA: Slate's New Electric Truck Will Cost Slightly More Than $24,950 (www.caranddriver.com)

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Range is said to be 205 mi (330 km), higher than the original estimate. This price is for the basic truck. The SUV configuration is expected to be $5000 more.

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[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

As Canadian...

American company?, nope

Owned by Bezos?, hell nah

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca -3 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

You're anti slop but you ctrl P the same comment across every post about this? Bezos does not own Slate.

[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 4 points 16 hours ago

Hey I create my own slop!

Also, this is why I copy/paste... you see, your comment was also made in other version of the same post and I explained it all there.. now I need to copy/paste for you here:

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]

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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/

[–] Sineljora@sh.itjust.works 1 points 15 hours ago

Would you buy a truck from Isis?