The $20,000 American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, and no touchscreen

Meet the Slate Truck, a sub-$20,000 (after federal incentives) electric vehicle that enters production next year. Those are not your typical design goals, but then the Slate Truck isn’t the fruit of your typical design process. “We have no paint shop, we have no stamping,” says Jeremy Snyder, Slate’s chief commercial officer who formerly led Tesla’s global business efforts. “At start of production, we will have coverage across the country for servicing your vehicle,” Snyder says. The Slate Truck is a rolling rejection of the current, bloated state of American motoring, but it’s consumer demand that’s driven the market down this dark alley.