Modern trucks are hellaciously expensive. So expensive that folks are swapping their work trucks for utility side-by-sides in droves, as trucks have become too expensive to fix, too expensive to maintain, and too expensive to beat the ever-living-hell out of. You just can't do truck things with modern trucks, unfortunately.
But UTVs can only get you so far, as not every state in the Union is as cool with them being on public roads as my home state of Utah is. And even then, you can't go on interstates with them. So, for the most part, you still need something to haul your toys around.
Slate, a new fully electric pickup truck company with the backing of Amazon's Jeff Bezos, however, thinks it has the solution to the problem of $100,000 pickups in the form of a back-to-basics, almost UTV-like pickup that'll start at $20,000. That sounds pretty good, but it's when you get to some of the specs that you really start to see how this baby pickup could be a powersport lover's dream truck.
