A Jeff Bezos-backed startup unveiled on X a cheap electric truck priced at roughly half the cost of the average new American pickup. The catch: it lacks power windows, infotainment screens, and self-driving features.

"The people spoke. We built. Meet the radically simple, radically affordable Slate," Slate Auto wrote in the post on X on Thursday.

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Wish they had made either a gas or diesel truck or even a hybrid. EVs suck. Probably has electronic data sent to the insurance company and the government as all new cars do.