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Except the Maverick isn't an EV. It's a hybrid, at best.
And? It comes with everything you'd expect from a 'normal' vehicle before you load up on your slate for several thousand dollars. You also get towing up to 8500lbs.
What's the value proposition here? I only see this being successful in area where you MUST own an EV and even then it's a hard sell without the tax credits.
For most people in general, the value proposition is that an EV is a Hell of a lot cheaper and simpler to operate and maintain in the long run (I say as the owner of a mid-1990s small pickup truck, among other vehicles). Your emphasis on towing capacity and purchase price is subjective preference, not objective superiority.
For my subjective preference in particular, it may well be the first modern EV ("modern" meaning not some NiMH fleet sales only compliance car from the '90s) that I can actually stand to own, because "everything you'd expect from a 'normal' vehicle" includes spyware that makes it a deal-breaker for me. Having it stripped down is a feature that makes it worth more to me, not less!
The eyebrow raiser in the Slate's base configuration is that it doesn't come with any audio systems: no radio antenna/tuner, no speakers. It remains to be seen how upgradeable the base configuration is for audio, how involved of a task it will be to install speakers in the dash or doors, installing antennas (especially for AM, which are tricky for interference from EV systems), etc.
I'd imagine that most people would choose to spend few thousand on that audio upgrade up to the bare minimum expectations one would have for a new vehicle, so that cuts into the affordability of the package.