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I'd buy that truck over a Slate.
I was super excited for Slate during the two minute video I saw about it..
Then I found out it was an Amazon truck.
Something like that would cut down a bunch on waste due to used markets for the vehicle and attachments, but jumping into an Amazon properiyory vehicle system is ridiculously dumb.
You're at their mercy.
One of the major selling features of the Slate is their intention to make the truck as end-user repairable as possible and publish documentation and how-to videos to support that. Whether they actually follow through remains to be seen, but if they do the Slate would be one of the least locked-in proprietary vehicles ever made.