Slate auto burst onto the scene in April 2025. Here is a timeline that covers its origins, backers, product, and other new details.

Slate Auto's latest funding round was led by existing investor TWG Global, a firm run by LA Dodgers owner Mark Walter.

Slate Auto, the EV startup backed by Jeff Bezos, secures $650 million in funding for an affordable pickup truck slated for delivery by the end of the year.

Slate Auto hopes its modular, stripped-down vehicle will be the future of affordable EVs, but it has a long road ahead.

“What we’ve done is we’ve stepped back and surveyed multiple battery suppliers, and what we’re seeing is there are others in the industry that are pulling back as well on their EV launch plans—so it’s ...

FILE PHOTO: Slate Auto test electric pickup trucks and SUV's sit in the startup's beta production facility in Orion Township, Michigan, U.S., June 6, 2025. REUTERS/Rebecca Cook/File Photo April 13 ...

Slate Auto, the electric vehicle startup backed by Jeff Bezos, has raised $650 million to fund its effort to bring a mid-$20,000 electric pickup truck to the U.S. market by year-end. TWG Global, ...

A new auto manufacturer is setting up shop in Louisville, Kentucky. Slate Auto, the Jeff Bezos-backed electric vehicle startup, plans to put its roughly $7.8 million vinyl wrap kit manufacturing ...

Slate Auto, the electric pickup company created by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, got a financial shot in the arm, raising $650 million as it moves toward production of its first trucks later this year.

LAKE ORION TOWNSHIP, Mich. — In a nondescript supplier park in suburban Detroit, an electric vehicle startup backed by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is building what it hopes will be America's newest ...