Slate says your truck will never track you!
Slate Auto gets serious about privacy for its bare-bones EV pickup
ARSTECHNICA Jonathan M. Gitlin – Jun 2, 2026 10:49 AM
Slate Auto may be one of the most interesting companies in the American automotive industry right now. Based in Warsaw...
I love the utter simplicity of a steering wheel and not much else
That’s our 1980 Mercedes 240D in a nutshell. Fully mechanical diesel engine, manual transmission, crank windows, vacuum-powered locks (yeah that’s right), and manual HVAC with functioning A/C.
It’s my wife’s absolute favorite car. She says we are never buying another automatic. God…I want to marry her all over again.
I really wanted one of these until I realized it wasn’t 4WD
That put me off as well. As much as I would love a little runabout EV pickup, I would 100% lift it with larger tires and take it out to the local rock crawling areas. But 2WD makes that fairly difficult.
That’s our 1980 Mercedes 240D in a nutshell. Fully mechanical diesel engine, manual transmission, crank windows, vacuum-powered locks (yeah that’s right), and manual HVAC with functioning A/C.
It’s my wife’s absolute favorite car. She says we are never buying another automatic. God…I want to marry her all over again.
That put me off as well. As much as I would love a little runabout EV pickup, I would 100% lift it with larger tires and take it out to the local rock crawling areas. But 2WD makes that fairly difficult.