Slate's electric truck: all the news about the ultra-minimal EV

https://www.theverge.com/transportation/956963/slate-truck-news-updates-price-specs-order

#ElectricVehicles #Trucks #FutureTech

With a Range Bump, the $25K Slate Is the Most Affordable EV Truck in the US

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/story/slate-ev-truck-price-specs-release-date/

Slate Auto Wants Its $25,000 Pickup Truck to Be the Back-to-Basics EV

https://gizmodo.com/slate-auto-wants-its-25000-pickup-truck-to-be-the-back-to-basics-ev-2000776750

#EV #ElectricVehicles #Trucks

I drove the Slate Truck -- there's more to it than EV minimalism

https://www.theverge.com/transportation/955454/slate-truck-ev-price-drive-specs-minimalism

#EV #Trucks #Automotive

75% More Pedestrians Have Been Killed Since 2009. Giant Trucks and SUVs Are Why

https://www.thedrive.com/news/75-more-pedestrians-have-been-killed-since-2009-giant-trucks-and-suvs-are-why

#HackerNews #pedestrian #safety #SUVs #trucks #road #safety #traffic #fatalities

"For decades, American roads were steadily getting safer for pedestrians. But around 2009, the trend reversed. Since then, the number of pedestrians killed each year has risen by about 75 percent.

The surge in pedestrian deaths has baffled researchers. Most other wealthy countries haven’t seen similar increases, suggesting that possible culprits like smartphones don’t tell the whole story.

Other likely causes of deadly crashes, such as drunken and distracted driving, have attracted immense attention from the public and policymakers. But the trend toward ever-larger vehicles has received much less scrutiny, even after federal researchers in 2022 cautioned regulators that it was endangering pedestrians.

After analyzing federal and industry records, including never-before-examined data on vehicle dimensions, we found that the rise of large pickups and S.U.V.s is an important factor.

Our estimate is that about 200 to 400 pedestrians a year would not have died if vehicles had remained approximately the same size over the past quarter-century. That represents about 10 percent of the recent increase in pedestrian deaths.

There are two reasons bigger vehicles are deadlier: They have taller hoods. And they tend to have larger blind zones."

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/06/21/us/trucks-suv-pedestrian-crashes.html

#USA #RoadSafety #Trucks #SUVs