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

Also, the micromobility startup that spun out of Rivian this year, was raised $200 million from Greenoaks Capital.

Rivian has opened customer orders for its second-generation quad-motor R1S and R1T EVs.

With EV quirks and an unpredictable charging network, it is now up to the manufacturers to guide the way.

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The Kia EV5 is so very close to being the ideal car for many families, with generous space and great performance – but the operating system still holds this SUV from the Korean car giant back.

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Electric vehicle sales were all over the map in Q2. One automaker soared. The others? Not so much.

The Tesla and SpaceX CEO has already come out strongly against the legislation.

Slate Auto has updated its website after Congress passed President Trump's tax cut bill, which will eliminate the federal EV tax credit.

After a brief silence, Musk is back in the political arena, taking aim at Trump’s priorities and mocking Iran’s Supreme leader.

Just hours before the Senate is scheduled to vote, the tech mogul warns the bill will "destroy millions of jobs" and put America "in the fast lane to debt slavery."

In a 30-minute video, Tesla claims a Model Y drove itself from the factory to a customer’s home. But online, not everyone is convinced.

A new 30-minute video shows a Model Y driving itself from the factory to a customer’s home.

Hitting the streets in 2026, VW's driverless ID Buzz offers space and style, without the need for a driver.

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24M’s Eternalyte tech can deliver almost 190 miles of range in under four minutes –and promises to pave the way for 1,000-mile range EV batteries.

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Zevo is a new peer-to-peer car-sharing startup, which is broadly similar to Turo, but focused exclusively on electric vehicles.

I’ve taken Apple CarPlay Ultra for a spin and it's in-car iOS perfection, but does it also spell the end of beautiful analogue interiors?

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Electric boat startup Arc has a new model that is its cheapest and most approachable watercraft yet. The new boat is called the Arc Coast, and it will start at $168,000. The company is taking preorders now and says the Coast will ship in 2026. The Coast is what’s known as a “center console” boat, […]

The judge in Canoo’s bankruptcy case has blocked an attempt by a mysterious financier to disrupt the sale of the EV startup’s assets. In a hearing Tuesday, Judge Brendan Linehan Shannon ruled the financier, a U.K.-based man named Charles Garson, lacked standing to request the sale to Canoo’s own CEO be vacated. While Garson had […]

A mysterious investor out of London has asked a bankruptcy judge in Delaware to stop the sale of EV startup Canoo’s assets to its CEO, calling it a “flawed” process. Charles Garson, a U.K.-based investor with no obvious ties to the EV startup, offered $20 million for Canoo’s assets, according to a filing. A lawyer […]

Slate Auto, the buzzy new EV startup that broke stealth this week, is close to locking in a former printing plant located in Warsaw, Indiana as the future production site for its cheap electric truck, a review of public records shows. The company is expected to lease the 1.4 million-square-foot facility for an undisclosed sum. […]