An Affordable EV Pickup Truck, the American E-Waste Crisis, AI's Blue-Collar Boom, and Wrong-Way Drivers

A $24,950 electric truck sounds like a typo, but it might be the clearest signal yet that the auto market is finally taking affordability seriously. We talk through the Slate Truck’s stripped-down approach: no infotainment system, hand-crank windows, minimal frills, and a 205-mile range that trades long-distance freedom for a price more people can actually reach. We also connect the dots to past demand for compact pickups and explain why a customizable “start basic, build it your way” strategy could reshape what buyers expect from an EV pickup.

Then we take on the environmental conversation that keeps narrowing to EV batteries. The larger crisis is e-waste: phones, laptops, tools, toys, and lithium-ion batteries are piling up, while only some states regulate disposal and recycling. We break down how inconsistent state e-waste laws make it hard for responsible businesses to scale safe, profitable recycling, and why a national policy is overdue if we want real progress in battery and electronics recycling.

Finally, we flip the AI job-loss narrative on its head. AI data centers and grid upgrades are driving a surge in demand for skilled trades such as electricians, plumbers, HVAC techs, and construction crews. These jobs cannot be replaced by software and can offer strong earnings without college debt. 

We close with highway safety, as Massachusetts invests $75 million in thermal camera systems for wrong-way driver detection, and we ask the harder question: why do we wait for tragedy before fixing dangerous roads?

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The $24,950 Slate EV Truck

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No infotainment system, hand crank windows, no paint. It's electric. It's got a range of 205 miles, and you will be soon able to buy this American-made vehicle made in Indiana for $24,950. And as usual, uh destination charges, taxes, and fees are extra. The vehicle I'm talking about is the slate truck, the EV truck. The obvious question is there a market at roughly half the price of what a new vehicle goes for on average in the United States of America? Short answer, yes, there is. And how do we know? Let me take you back six years. The Ford Motor Company introduced for the 2020 model year the Ford Maverick. The base model was a hybrid. And it was a unibody truck designed for folks who needed a little bit more but didn't want to go SUV, wasn't going to go full-size pickup truck. They were aiming at urban families, if you can believe it. Was there a demand for it? Ford was sold out for three model years. You couldn't get one because everybody spoke for whatever number Ford figured that they could sell, got committed. There was a time in the United States, and you gotta go back about 40 years plus. Small compact Japanese pickup trucks were everywhere. Toyota built one, Nissan built one, Mazza built one, pretty much Izuzu built one. They were cheap to buy, cheap to run, and cheap to keep up. And everybody, it seems, owned one. And at that time, we're talking between seven and eight thousand dollars brand new. They were affordable, they were durable, they were versatile, and it made sense for a lot of people. I believe the time has come for something like this right now, Slate Autumn. Ford's looking at developing a under $30,000 truck, an EV truck that they're working on. So there's definitely an interest, and there is a dearth of anything. If you want a truck brand new and you do not want to pay more than $30,000, your choice is pretty limited. And you you're not you can't buy a Ford Ranger for that. You can't buy a Chevy uh Colorado or a GMC um vehicle for that. They're north of 30, easily. And in fact, some Ranger models will run you up around 50 for a mid-size pickup. Ram doesn't offer one yet, but they're coming. And others are coming to the market. Toyota owned this market for themselves over the last 10 years when Detroit realized that getting out of it, because they had been out of it, both Ford was out in 2011, uh, Dodge slash Ram was out of it slightly before that, GM left in 2012. And that pretty much left Nissan and Toyota to the market, and the Tacoma just dominated. And the automakers went, whoops, I think we may made a mistake here. We want to get back into this. But even now, an affordable mid-size pickup? No, no, not really. Not really. Your choices are by use or by something else. I don't know what the numbers are for Slate, but I want to point two things out to you. Number one, even after the elimination of the EV federal credits, this truck's coming to market. Number one. Number two, it still has a base price less than 30 grand. And I don't mean 29,995, 24,950. I'm letting that settle for a minute. There's a lot of companies looking at coming back into this field. Kia's talking about it, Hyundai's talking about it, Scout's gonna be there. Everybody's gaming for this. But how many of them will get to this price point? That's the challenge. I mean, even the Hyundai, and I'm I'm trying to think of their uh their little truck that they had based on the Elantra, we did a review of it a little bit while back. Cute little truck, but it was well north of 30 grand. And for the record, according to the powers that be at Hyundai, that little truck is not, the Santa Cruz is not being discontinued. And that comes straight from my field rep who made a point of making sure that I knew that. So I want to share that with you while I'm thinking about it. $24,950. The magic of this truck, and it's genius, really, by limiting and keeping it very, very simple, means that quality should be very, very high. And by keeping it simple and keeping it inexpensive, gives people the room and the finance to trick this truck out or turn it into an SUV any kind of way you want. If you want a particular um vehicle wrap for it, that's on you. You want to dress it up? They're taking a leaf really out of the Ford Bronco Do-It-Yourself book. Now the Bronco is considerably more expensive, but the big thing about the Bronco is that you could customize it literally to anything you want. And Slate's not leaving it to chance. They're also offering something they call Slate University, which would give you a number of how-tos if you wanted to do this or that relative to your new truck. And I should add this I mentioned an SUV based on this platform. That's still also under 30 grand, but just barely. It's going to come in at $29,950. But the same principle. You'll be able to do what you want with it. Me personally, I think you're going to see a lot of base late trucks without the wrap, very basic, because that's what people can afford to get into, and they're going to be happy as a clam to be able to own something new. Now, the only beef I've got is the short range, and that's partly because of the batteries they chose. They chose to go with a cheaper battery that's not as energy dense, but allowed them to get hit the price point, which is why it's only 205 miles. But if you are near public charging or you are have a home where you can charge it in, could possibly be a good option for you if for no other reason as a weekend vehicle, an errand vehicle, or work vehicle, particularly at that price. You really can't go wrong. We'll see, and I'm hoping to drive one in the near future, and I'll let you know just how that experience went. But at some point in the future, I will get to drive one of these, no doubt. So $24,950. It's a thing. 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E-Waste And The Patchwork Of Laws

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E-waste. That is all that discarded computer, cell phone, and other oh my goodness, river of electronic devices that are outdated. They're in drawers, they're in closets, they're wasting space in your house. And some of it we even throw away. Interesting fact the disposal of e-waste is governed by state law in only 25 of the 50 United States. And that means that half of our country has no laws at all about the tsunami of e-waste that America discards annually. And let's not even begin the discussion of the inconsistencies in each of the current laws. In other words, it's a mess. This is topic A. This conversation started a few years back, although the issue has been going on for decades. Listeners talk when we talk about EVs, they say, yeah, but what about the batteries? What are you gonna do about the batteries? Oh my god, the batteries. And then we're talking about the EV batteries. Truth be told, the EV batteries are just a fraction of the larger problem. Part of that problem is in your pocket right now. Your cell phone, all the electronic gadgets you've bought for the kids down through the years that they don't play with anymore, that they've put away, all the batteries, whether they're cell phone batteries or just double-A's, triple-A's, whatever, your laptop that stopped working in 2017 that's just been in a closet because you don't know what to do with it, all of that is e-waste. Yet, we don't have a comprehensive national policy to handle it. So much of that could be resolved because it's disingenuous for folks to get all up in arms about EV batteries when we have had this problem. The current or the modern cell phone as we know it has been around, if you count the iPhone since 2007. We've had basic cell phones before that, going back at least back into the 80s. So this has been a problem. Lithium-ion batteries have always been the problem. And everything else, uh the gold and all the heavy metals and all the other stuff that goes into it, that could be recaptured. But we don't have a way to do it. And even when the states have laws, they're so disjointed and uncoordinated. If a local company was to say, you know what, we want to be ecologically responsible. We want to help be part of the solution to this problem. Problem is, depending where they're at, the law or lack thereof may not be of much help to them. And because of the difference across the country, they really can't build anything. People really can't build anything to get scale. Because you're going to spend that kind of money, particularly in handling the risk, and because you still have a charge, so there's a risk of fire, or worse, even in the little batteries. We heard that what, 10 years ago, there was a rash of lithium battery fires that were in like hoverboards and personal computers. We had that whole rash there for a minute. That's still a problem. That's still a problem. And I really interestingly enough, very rarely, and even to this day, very rarely, we're talking about EV batteries. All of that stuff was happening with the smaller, I mean, the chemistry was the issue. Don't get me wrong, lithium ion as a slurry is a problem for so many reasons. But consider this the states that do regulate e-waste disagree on almost everything. If you had two states together that both had e-waste laws, you couldn't run in those two states the same way because the laws are different. Let me give you an example. In Illinois, they banned certain electronics from landfills outright, but imposed no mandate on who collects it or how. Other states set collection targets. Like in Indiana, they order manufacturers accountable to take back 60% of the total weight of everything they sold a year before. How do you even monitor that? In Maine, they make manufacturers foot the bill for shipping and recycling, but get this, even for products made by companies that have gone out of business since. Now, who's gonna even fit the bill for that? And more importantly, where's it going and how are we gonna do it? For a company operating across state lines, the obligations vary depending on product type, reporting cycle, fee model, and cost recovery structure. A company's New York compliance plan will not, for example, work in Texas. Now, to be honest, most states with e-waste laws start from the same premise. The manufacturers who made the products should pay to recycle them. I have no problem with that. And all but California and Utah have built their programs around that idea. But the details diverge sharply from there. Some states demand annual performance reports. Performance for what? Measuring how. Others set recycling targets or impose penalties for non-compliance. And as you might guess, yes, yes, yes, California is the outlier. Listen to this. The state charges consumers an electronic waste recycling fee when you buy it. Your cell phone, anything with an e-battery in it, you're gonna pay an extra charge to the state of California. Goody, goody, goody. They use that money to fund a state-run network of certified recyclers. And depending on what it is, the fee could be anywhere between four to six dollars an item. That stuff adds up. Depending on screen size. California expanded its program to include battery embedded products such as cordless tools, toys, and small appliances. No other state has replicated this advanced recovery fee model at the same scale. Thank God, that's a nightmare. And then the question is what can you do? How can you do it? And how do you get paid? How do you make money recycling in California? Because if you do it the California way, what you do in California won't apply anywhere else. And if you're gonna choose one, probably California because of its sheer size. If you're gonna build the scale, might as well be California. Because that's the only way it really makes sense. Realizing that whatever you build won't apply anywhere else. We need a national law, people. We need to work this out. This is a mess and it's gonna choke us and be dangerous. A new solar technology stays semi-transparent while generating electricity. This is the Tech Mobility Show. Quick question: What could your life look like one year from now if you invested just two focused hours a week into building something of your own? That's the idea behind my new book, Two Hour Entrepreneur. No hype, no hustle culture, just practical steps to help busy people finally move from idea to action. Available now on Amazon Kindle, Goodreads.com, and KennethJchester.com. Two hour entrepreneur. Start where you are.

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AI Data Centers Fuel Skilled Trades

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For the last several years, the mainstream media has been full of dire predictions and warnings and pearl clutching about the potential job losses due to artificial intelligence. But what if I told you something contrary? What if I told you that not every job is subject to elimination by AI? And more importantly, that in fact there is a number of job opportunities right now that are growing due to AI that cannot be filled due to the demand. What if I told you they were blue-collar jobs? Interested? Shocked? Surprised? Good. This is topic B. I want you to think about this a minute. And actually, this is the tip of the spear of a larger conversation that America needs to have anyway. Somebody once said, no one ever called an English lit major when you needed your plumbing fixed, or you needed your electricity resolved, or you needed your heating and air conditioning, or your water, your water heater replaced, your furnace fixed. AI will never replace those jobs. But here's the thing. AI right now is driving the demand for those skills. What do you mean? Right now, the headlines are screaming about data centers, building these huge data centers. Okay. How do those centers get built? Construction workers, electricians, plumbers, heating and air conditioning professionals. All skills, all trades that can be taught, but require a certain amount of years in the trades to be proficient. The challenge we've got right now, there's more demand for elect for those skills right now, today, just based on the explosion in data centers. We're not even talking about the rest of the economy. We're just talking that. By the time you add in all the peripheral support, if you're a power utility, the need to pour cement for new substations and hang wiring and all of that stuff, all of that peripheral stuff, long before you get in the center itself. We haven't even talked about how this stuff has to be programmed. Somebody's gonna have to program it. AI is not gonna be able to do all of that. Although AI is driving, that's the odd part. AI is driving and making worse labor shortages in these essential industries. The term for that, for all of those skills, are called skilled trades. And when I was coming up, to my chagrin now, that the trades weren't really looked upon as somebody or a place where a kid with potential should go. The funny thing is now that with training programs and internships, you could be making money straight out of high school, learning a trade, getting paid for it with absolutely zero college debt. In the past few years, stories have been run about electricians who found the trade out of high school, got onto it, built these fantastic uh lives for themselves and their families, now are retired as semi-retired, with a house in the city and a house on the lake and a boat and a couple of cars, all paid for. Did I mention zero college debt? Did you hear me there?

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Good friend of mine. He came out of school, went right into being an electrician, just recently retired as a master electrician. We're about the same age. Man doesn't have to work another day in his life if he don't want to. Beautiful house. Just bought a couple of years ago a brand new car for his wife, and he didn't buy a cheap one. All because of skill trades. And he did that even before this gold mine, this gold rush of demand. We actually have a problem, and we've had it for some time in the United States. This is a large, like I said, this is a larger conversation. We need skilled tradespeople, electricians, welders, plumbers, HVAC technicians, and there aren't nearly enough of them. Eighty percent of general contractors in the United States already report difficulty in filling these positions. In the construction industry, one out of every five construction workers is 55 or older. 20 percent. An estimated 30 percent of union electricians will reach retirement age within a decade. And if you're a master electrician, you're commanding top dollar from being starting out as an apprentice, becoming a journeyman for a number of years, and then qualifying and having a skill set to be in a master electrician, whether you hang your own shingle or work for a major company, you make a top dollar, and trust me when I tell you, you live in your best life. Did I mention no college debt? Because I want you to hear that. On top of all of this, even now, the demand is about to surge. The five largest U.S. cloud and AI infrastructure providers alone have committed this year to spend six hundred and sixty billion dollars in capital expenditures. That's billion with a B. Six hundred and sixty two-thirds of a trillion dollars, if you want to count it that way, in capital expenditures, mainly by building data centers and all the support infrastructure that goes with them. The announced pipeline, announced data centers, data centers that have been announced to be built will require 1.2 million person years of skilled labor. And data centers are only a subset of the full infrastructure need. As I mentioned earlier, skilled tradespeople are also essential for building adequate energy generation and transmission capacity. We're not even talking about what the utilities are doing now on their own, right now, today, even in places where there are no data centers. We've talked about the age of the grid. We've talked about the need for updates. I want to give you the other side. Because if you follow the electric trades like I do, the industry's just not sitting on their thumbs. They're spending billions of dollars trying to get caught up. But the problem is for all the money they're spending, they're still behind. And the one thing that will throw a wrench into this is a lack of the skilled laborers they need to do what they need to do. We need to get serious about internships, apprenticeships, and we need to put real money behind them. We've made some great, we've made some inroads, but we're nowhere close. Three years ago, Virginia did something called a universal licensing recognition, allowing electricians with three years of good standing elsewhere to work without retesting. That's a step in the right direction. Because if you're an electrician in Iowa and you want to go to Massachusetts, you got to get retested all over again. Even if you got 20, 30 years experience in Iowa, doing what you're doing, even if you are a master electrician, that's not right. And that's gonna gum the works up, particularly now where we need all of this help. One state is investing millions of dollars on wrong-way driver detection systems. And it's not where you think. We are the Tech Mobility Show.

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Massachusetts Targets Wrong Way Drivers

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Why, when it comes to highway safety, it often takes a tragedy to spur officials to make changes and/or improvements? Hmm. In this one state, it was the death of a state trooper when a wrong way driver plowed into his cruiser. And I know what you're thinking. Florida, right? Hmm. Maybe Arizona, right? Nope. California. No. Not even New York. It's Massachusetts. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts. And this is topic C. I want to start with one number that kind of blew my mind. And this was tracked by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety. It's a national report. And in the state of Massachusetts, they found 73 fatalities on highways involving wrong way drivers over a 10-year period. That's seven people a year in a state of a population of 5 million. And just barely 12 counties. Yeah, you can get to Mass you can cross Massachusetts in roughly 150 miles from Boston to Williamstown. It's not that far. 73 fatalities as a result of wrong way drivers. Pick your choice. Older folks, narrow roads, stupid roundabouts, people driving older, distracted. Pick one. Pick several. This happened because a state trooper who was alerted on his way home from work now was alerted that there was a wrong way driver heading down this road and he was close. He went in pursuit. The problem is, wrong way driver happened to him and hit him head on, killed the driver, and he died at the hospital. If you've ever been to Massachusetts, a stretch of road they're talking about should be closed anyway. If you've ever traveled out of Boston coming up U.S. Route 1 through Saugus and Peabody on your way north, it is the craziest piece of road you will ever travel and scarier than I don't know what, and tight and fast. No margin for error. Can you get confused? Yes. Yes, you can. That's what happens when you try to cram a busy four-lane road into a space that really should only be a two-lane. And these folks are doing 45 to 50 miles an hour, and it's heavily retail area. So you got people pulling out all the time. Can you get turned around? Easily. Easily. But yeah, I now I need to say this. I've been to Florida. Eight lanes of traffic. They're crazy down there. It's scary crazy. And Florida has spent billions of dollars on big old huge interstate highways. And I'm not even exaggerating. I'm talking eight lanes, why both ways? Not eight lanes total. Eight lanes each way. I've been down some of those roads. It it yeah, I have no words. So when I first saw this story, I just knew because you made the same assumption. You thought, oh folks, yeah, uh-huh. Had to be Florida, had to be Arizona. No. Mm-mm. Mm-mm. Nope. Massachusetts. There is a problem with people not paying attention. And when you are going down the wrong way of a road, particularly today, particularly at the speeds we travel, particularly in the vehicles we're in, statistically, they talk about how much more damage, injury, and death happen because of the size of the SUVs and pickup trucks we're driving now, as opposed to the cars we were driving 20 years ago. Mix that in with somebody who is distracted or just discombubulated. They don't know where really where they are, and they think they're in the right place, but they're not. Massachusetts, after losing this trooper and nearly losing another one a week later in almost the same place when somebody else plowed into a trooper's car on the same road a week later. The trooper didn't die that time. With all the risk out there, do we really need this? Massachusetts is spending $75 million to install more than 400 thermal detection camera systems to identify wrongway drivers and immediately trigger red warning lights illuminating wrong way signs. Here's what the article said. That will hopefully prompt drivers to turn around, especially at night when existing signs could be otherwise harder to see. I can not hey Massachusetts, I can nominate some roads around Boston. You should just close. That you shouldn't even try. Again, if you've taken US Route 1 across the Topin Bridge, heading north, out to Saugas, that way? Yeah, no, you don't want any parts of that. You really don't. But here we are. How many more roads are like that across the country? How many other places? Less of an issue out here in Iowa. But then again, we out in the wide open of the wide open. If you get confused out here, something else is going on in your life, you're distracted. But in Massachusetts, on the East Coast, where the roads are more compact, where society existed before the car largely, and it already kind of built up and kind of superimposed the motor vehicle. If you're from Massachusetts and if you've ever been to Boston, and I mentioned Sturo Drive to you, you will understand. That is a white knuckle ride, I guarantee it. I've ridden Sturo many times. It is a tight two-lane coming down one side of the Back Bay neighborhood on its way into Boston between Back Bay and the Charles River. And these folks are doing 50-55 miles an hour on a road, probably shouldn't be doing more than 25 by engineering, and it's tight. And you can't break down. There's no place for you to pull over. It is not hard getting confused, particularly if you're at Charles Circle trying to get on, and maybe you weren't paying attention and ended up going the wrong way out of Charles Circle on a sturrow drive. Yeah, that's not gonna end well ever. There are other cities, there are other situations. We need to start thinking about not just being safe and having to build safety features after the fact. But can we be a little proactive here and do some things with road design, road construction, and honestly getting honest about some of our roads? That honestly, yeah and no? Boston is a prime example, but this didn't happen in the city, it happened north of the city. But I know the stretch of road and I understand why. It's just a shame that they ended up spending the money after the fact people had to die, people had to get injured in order for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to spend money for this level of safety. I'm not okay about that. Because we need to do better. We need to do better. And there needs to be a conversation about roads and transportation and making some changes. That moment probably isn't coming, but two focused hours a week? Yeah, most of us can find that. In my new book, Two Hour Entrepreneur, I'll show you how small, consistent effort can create real momentum toward building something meaningful. 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