It depends on your market and your work, but it would be hard I think to work out of a truck with ~200 mile range. Maybe when charging vastly improves in both speed and availability...

I work out of a Ford E-Transit with 110-135 miles of range while living in an area with fairly poor DC fast charging coverage. You learn to live with it and plan accordingly.

I'm obviously not saying it's impossible to do so. But if you work in a rural area where your customers might be 70 miles or more apart, you can't exactly go from one customer to the next many times in a row. So now you're leaving money on the table because you have to turn down work.

They seem to be shipping - my friend sat and drove one owned by a person that claims to have received their shipment, and not a test model.

Car and Driver has a review.[1] They were annoyed that top speed is limited to 90 MPH. But that's Car and Driver. Unlike a kei truck, you can take the Slate on a freeway. The Scion kei truck is a low-speed vehicle, top speed 25 MPH, 4WD. It's something you drive around a medium-sized farm. It competes with the larger ATVs.

[1] https://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/a73296422/2027-slate-ev...

The towing/payload capacity I wish was a little higher. My family Odyssey actually has a 1500lb greater towing capacity. The times I wish I had a truck are occasionally for oversized material, but more often a situation where I wish I could just pull a decent trailer or have a half ton of material or whatever dumped in a bed.

The Slate pickup can be configured differently and has uses beyond that, I'm sure Slate did market research to arrive at the compromises it did, but it's a legitimate point for some.