Slate's affordable electric pickup could be a huge deal or a huge disaster. After all, there are good reasons other EV-makers take a different launch approach.

Earlier this week, the Jeff Bezos-backed company unveiled the Slate Truck —a bare-bones EV pickup with a purported base price of around $20,000 to $25,000. Major hurdles remain before these EVs are cruising (at moderate speeds) down roads,

PCWorld isn’t a site about cars or trucks, so I thank my editor and you for indulging me in this story. To be clear, I’m a Texan who’s been raging at gigantic 20-foot-long F-150 pavement princesses for a more than a decade now—and yet,