Ever since Jeff Bezos and his wife founded Amazon in his garage back in 1994, turning it from a simple online bookseller into one of the world's biggest businesses, people have been looking to the entrepreneur and wondering what he might take on next.

Slate Auto, a small independent automaker based in Troy, Mich., has unveiled its new bare-bones truck, the 2027 Slate Truck EV, which is customizable and is priced at less than $30,000. "It's a Slate.