Reuters Article: This Bezos-backed EV startup is betting you'll pay extra for a stereo in your petite pickup

[AZFox]

If you just can't get enough of reading about things you probably already know, read on.

https://www.reuters.com/business/au...oull-pay-extra-stereo-your-petite-2025-07-28/

It's a pretty good overview in their Business section. Here are a couple of snippets:

“We are building the affordable vehicle that has long been promised but never delivered,” Slate CEO Chris Barman said at a Detroit conference in July.​

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Slate’s creation started with an idea from Miles Arnone, the CEO of Re:Build Manufacturing, a Massachusetts-based startup that includes several former Amazon employees. Arnone believed workers needed better access to affordable vehicles.​

“There's a growing appetite, especially among younger drivers, for vehicles that are more honest, more modular and less over-engineered,” he said. “Slate taps right into that.”​

 

[Imhotep]

It’s fun seeing what’s being said about the Slate. I appreciate that @AZFox and others are scouring the internet for tidbits so I don’t have to. That’s actually what drew me to this forum.

Edit: added “and others” Props

 

[hbuck]

If you just can't get enough of reading about things you probably already know, read on.

https://www.reuters.com/business/au...oull-pay-extra-stereo-your-petite-2025-07-28/

It's a pretty good overview in their Business section. Here are a couple of snippets:

“We are building the affordable vehicle that has long been promised but never delivered,” Slate CEO Chris Barman said at a Detroit conference in July.​

​

Slate’s creation started with an idea from Miles Arnone, the CEO of Re:Build Manufacturing, a Massachusetts-based startup that includes several former Amazon employees. Arnone believed workers needed better access to affordable vehicles.​

“There's a growing appetite, especially among younger drivers, for vehicles that are more honest, more modular and less over-engineered,” he said. “Slate taps right into that.”​

 

[hbuck]

I do not want a stereo. I use my iPhone with CarPlay now! Jeff is off base on this.

 

[Roy]

Stereo, I don’t need no stinking stereo.

 

[Letas]

I do not want a stereo. I use my iPhone with CarPlay now! Jeff is off base on this.

Well.. you'll still have to install (pay more) to install a head unit and speakers.

 

[AZFox]

You only pay for a stereo if it has value to you.

Makes sense to me.

That said, the article's title is clickbait-ish.