Interesting that Telo is based in San Carlos, California. I believe that Tesla was also based there, much earlier in its history. And it’s a small town.
If we assume the man in @wolfpup’s cited vid is 6 feet tall, Da Vinci showed us that his arm span is also ~6 feet. In the pic his nose in roughly aligned with the front edge of the bed and his outstretched fingers reach almost to the back of the bed.
So the bed is 3-1/2 to 4 feet long.
This thing is the Smart Car of pickup trucks. Which might in fact have a good use case. But carrying plywood or drywall is not it. 
It has a mid-gate so you do have an effectively longer bed. Plus I hear it can be specc’ed up to 500 HP. What could go wrong? As far as American Luxo-barges, I give you the Cadillac Celestiq. Bring money.
Surprisingly, not so. The thing is a marvel of compact design.
According to the Telo website, the bed is 60" long (5 feet). They add “Same truck bed length as the Toyota Tacoma. Larger than a Rivian R1T.” The partition between the bed and the interior is removable or foldable, presumably adding a further 3 feet, because according to the bearded guy in the video, yes, you can indeed carry standard 8x4 sheets of plywood or drywall with the tailgate closed.
The total length of the vehicle is 152", just over 12.6 feet, so the math seems to work. The width of the vehicle is 73", allowing the bed to be quite wide, too.
Just to add, from watching the video again, to get 8x4 plywood to fit, you have to move the front seats fairly far forward, which may not be comfortable for a tall driver. Otherwise with the front seats set back, the effective bed length is 7’ 2". So that’s the tradeoff if you’re carrying plywood or drywall – either move the seats forward and get all crunched up at the front, or leave the tailgate open. Or I suppose you could have plywood sheets dangling out a bit over the closed tailgate.
Get real, sport. How many SUV owners are ever anywhere that isn’t a paved road? Also, as it happens, there is an option to raise (or lower) the chassis.
I’ve seen a video about that. I would be very interested if it could be switched to an SUV shape like the Slate, but they don’t seem to be going that way.
They’re planning it for a later date. They’re calling it the “minivan version”. Not sure how that would work in terms of passenger access, and the floor of the bed is higher than in the passenger section. It may be just for cargo, with access from the rear.
That’s interesting, thanks. Now it may just become a value and timing proposition, which one will have the version I would want, and will the Telo be worth the extra price. I certainly like the appearance better, including the cab-forward design.
What would worry me about either Slate or Telo is that both companies are small and very new, both founded in 2022, so who knows how long they’ll be around. And their products are new technology, rather radical, and unproven. Any Telos you may see are prototype pre-production models, used for testing and working out bugs and I think the same is true of Slate.
Yes, but what is life without risk? Sometimes early adopters are right, sometimes they’re not. For myself, I don’t think most of the technology involved is that new, just put together in a different way. I think I’d be willing to take the risk.
Well, you may be able and willing to risk what realistically might be anywhere from $35K to $65K or more (after options, and excluding rebates that might not exist) for something that turns out to be prone to problems and warranted by a company that suddenly no longer exists, but I’m not!
Note that many buyers of the Cybertruck now dearly wish they hadn’t and now can’t get rid of them, and even Tesla won’t take them back as trade-ins for a real car. And the Rivian R1T has, at best, mixed reviews.
On the plus side, the CEO of Telo did make a point about the remarkable number of components in the vehicle that were mass-produced off-the-shelf products. Still, an EV is a very complex vehicle, and the way those part assemblies are engineered and tested is still a crucial quality and reliability factor, as is the quality of support offered.
But hey, if you want to take the risk so I don’t have to a few years later, go for it! 
I can appreciate the enthusiasm. For me, the Telo is the more interesting one, but that company is even smaller and the risks probably even greater than the Slate. The Telo was basically designed by – and the company run by – what are (to me) three kids. And it’s currently privately held. It absolutely won’t go anywhere unless and until it goes public.
I would point out that in large parts of the country, going to the feed store in town or the local dump means going on the highway, and traveling on the highway in a small vehicle speed-limited to 25 (or 35) mph, when the rest of the traffic is significantly larger/heavier and mostly going 55-70mph, is taking your life into your hands.
No one has yet mentioned that Slate is an anagram for Tesla.
I put a deposit on a Ford Maverick XLT that should arrive next week. Total expenditure, for the vehicle, taxes, and registration fees is about $33,500. Seems like a great price to me for that truck. The base model could be around $3000 less but doesn’t seem to be available. I have my doubts about the Slate ever being produced much less coming in for the current predicted price of $28,000.
Nice truck. I’m seeing more and more Mavericks on the roads and they are becoming popular. They look like a nice truck at a nice size. Did you get gas or hybrid?
Gas. They’re all gas, the hybrid has a battery too. I didn’t see any significant difference in mileage with the hybrids, and they cost more. The advantage of the hybrid version is found in highway driving and I won’t be doing much of that.
No, hybrids have their greatest advantage in city driving due to the battery capturing braking energy. The FWD standard versions get 23 city / 30 hwy, while the hybrid versions get 42 city / 33 hwy. Hwy is 10% better while city is nearly double.
See: https://www.cornerstoneford.com/ford-research/ford-maverick-mpg/
Sorry. Yes, correct, wrote that all backwards. I don’t do much city style stop and go that will work out to much advantage in the results I’ve seen. Wouldn’t seem to be worth it for the low mileage I’ll put on it. It would hardly be worth the extra cost for the hybrid with the low milage I put on it. It’s hard to find a basic hybrid model, most of them are outfitted with luxury packages taking the price up to $40,000 or over. Someone putting a lot more miles on it than I do commuting in the city or the insane stop and go I used to go through on the way to Boston would see a clear advantage.
Yeah, probably not worth an extra ~$10k for a 10% mileage improvement. Hybrids do a little better on the highway than non-hybrids, since you can either fit a smaller engine or tune it for a more efficient power band (with the electric motor covering for the power loss), but it’s a much smaller benefit than the regeneration improvement.