Links
The $20,000 American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, and no touchscreen
theverge.com
The rather extreme omission of any kind of media system in the car is jarring, but it, too, has secondary benefits.
“Seventy percent of repeat warranty claims are based on infotainment currently because there’s so much tech in the car that it’s created a very unstable environment in the vehicle,” Snyder says.
Eliminating infotainment, the theory goes, necessarily boosts reliability. And reliability will be key because Slate is taking DIY to new extremes on the maintenance front, too.