PCWorld isn’t a site about cars or trucks, so I thank my editor and you for indulging me in this story. To be clear, I’m a Texan who’s been raging at gigantic 20-foot-long F-150 pavement princesses for a more than a decade now—and yet,

Slate Auto unveiled its base-model, affordable electric pickup truck this week. It comes with crank windows and no infotainment system, but is expected to price below $30,000.

Slate is talking a big game, and has revealed lots of details about its Slate Truck (yes, that's the name) today, but while there are lots of answers, there are lots of questions still yet to be clarified. We’ll start with the basics of what we know.