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Word of a brand-new electric-vehicle startup might call to mind the strange days of the COVID era, when headlines were jam-packed with all sorts of Tesla wannabes. Some went public without an actual product or a dime in revenue. Not surprisingly, most never quite took off. Some straight-up crashed and…

It’s here. At a Thursday event in Los Angeles, startup Slate Auto revealed what it’s calling simply, the Truck. It’s a tiny electric pickup funded at least in part by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, and astonishingly, a targeted base price of $20,000 after federal tax incentives for EVs. 

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These days, it doesn't feel like $25,000 gets you much of anything when you're shopping for a new car. Blame inflation, America's love of giant trucks and SUVs or automakers that need to keep delivering those record profits. (And that's all before you throw tariffs into the mix.)

New cars are ridiculously expensive. New electric cars, even more so. Could a new American EV startup change that equation?

I am happy to publish this guest post from my frequent co-author Seth Barrett Tillman, which is cross-posted at Seth's… The post Guest Post from Professor Tillman: Professor Shugerman (et al) vs. Professor Prakash (et al) appeared first on Reason.com.

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News organizations lack the courage and "moral clarity" to be transparent about their political leanings.

You'll be surprised by what's fact and what's fiction in the new Netflix movie directed by Anna Kendrick.