Who Needs A $20,000 Electric Pickup?

Here’s a radical solution to skyrocketing car prices: just sell cars for less. Better still, sell a highly customizable electric car for less. Say, somewhere in the area of $27,500, so we’re only spending 20 grand before taxes once the EV credits kick in? Well, wouldn’t you know it, someone actually beat us to the idea, and that someone is Slate Auto, a pioneering automaker shaking up the market with the radical notion of an affordable battery-powered pickup.