Motor Trend: Slate Talks about the Truck’s Style, Safety, and a Front End You Can Design

[cadblu]

New interview with Slate’s head of design, Tisha Johnson, head of brand and marketing, Ben Whitla, and head of PR and communications, Jeff Jablansky.

Slate says it’s on schedule to hit its first customer deliveries toward the end of 2026, with mass production expected in 2027.

Motor Trend interview 14-Oct

 

[E90400K]

"The first thing we did was to get head lamps that are easy to swap out and don’t require an expensive lighting internal program to create them that we’d have to spend a lot of dollars to make."

Again, I ask, then why not just go with $15 Wagner H6006 glass headlamps. Fits perfect with the 1960's manual rollup windows meme.

 

[GaRailroader]

"The first thing we did was to get head lamps that are easy to swap out and don’t require an expensive lighting internal program to create them that we’d have to spend a lot of dollars to make."

Again, I ask, then why not just go with $15 Wagner H6006 glass headlamps. Fits perfect with the 1960's manual rollup windows meme.

The vehicle is already inefficient enough I hope they are going with LEDs and not H6006 halogens.

 

[E90400K]

The vehicle is already inefficient enough I hope they are going with LEDs and not H6006 halogens.

I thinking the LED lights they are using are going to get packed with wet snow, halogen might be better with their recessed design.

And there are glass globe alternatives with LED in the H6006 form factor. Still less expensive than a custom plastic lense/housing design.