Inside Slate’s radical design process to build a $24,950 EV truck you won’t be embarrassed to drive (opens in new tab)

Call it the perfect car for the affordability era. To build it, the Bezos-backed startup led by veterans of Amazon, Chrysler, and Tesla had to rethink everything about how vehicles are designed, constructed, customized, and repaired—shattering auto industry conventions in the process. Inside a sprawling former printing plant in Warsaw, Indiana, the new factory for Slate Auto—the affordable, ultra-minimal electric truck backed by Jeff Bezos—doesn’t look like a typical car manufacturing plant.T...