{"id":921105,"date":"2025-04-10T10:56:05","date_gmt":"2025-04-10T05:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=921105"},"modified":"2025-04-10T10:56:05","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T05:26:05","slug":"amazon-founder-jeff-bezos-is-funding-a-secret-ev-startup-that-has-hired-employees-from-ford-general-motors-and-harley-davidson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/04\/10\/amazon-founder-jeff-bezos-is-funding-a-secret-ev-startup-that-has-hired-employees-from-ford-general-motors-and-harley-davidson\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is funding a &#8216;secret&#8217; EV startup that has hired employees from Ford, General Motors and Harley-Davidson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has been identified as a significant backer of Slate Auto, a Michigan-based electric vehicle (EV) startup operating under the radar since its inception in 2022. According to a report by TechCrunch, the company is developing a budget-friendly two-seat electric pickup truck, projected to cost around $25,000, with the goal of bringing EV technology to a wider market.<\/p>\n<p>As per the report, Slate Auto has attracted top talent from major automakers, including Ford, General Motors, Stellantis, and Harley-Davidson, as it builds its team. The startup emerged from Re:Build Manufacturing, another Bezos-backed venture, and has raised substantial funding, including $111 million in a Series A round in 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has been identified as a significant backer of Slate Auto, a Michigan-based electric vehicle (EV) startup operating under the radar since its inception in 2022. According to a report by TechCrunch, the company is developing a budget-friendly two-seat electric pickup truck, projected to cost around $25,000, with the goal of bringing EV technology to a wider market. As per the report, Slate Auto has attracted top talent from major automakers, including Ford, General Motors, Stellantis, and Harley-Davidson, as it builds its team. The startup emerged from Re:Build Manufacturing, another Bezos-backed venture, and has raised substantial funding, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-921105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=921105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=921105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=921105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=921105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}