This small electric pickup truck will leave the factory with the bare minimum—but it doesn’t need to stay that way.

Michigan-based electric vehicle maker Slate Auto unveiled its no-frills electric pickup truck aimed at the mass market. At a launch event in Long Beach, California during the week, the electric truck was seen by the public for the first time.

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,