Seats comfort / quality

[Slater]

Does anybody know anything about the seat quality that Slate plans on using? I know the goal is to keep costs down, but comfort is a big deal for me. If it’s like my RAV4, I may have to look for a replacement. If it’s like the BMW or Tesla seats then it’s a winner. The videos show what looks like a pretty thin seat. Has anybody sat in one?

 

[Adam W]

On the Slate careers page, they recently posted an opening for Principal Seating Engineer. That says to me that whatever is in the prototypes is probably not a final design, and may even be just a temporary off-the-shelf placeholder part.

 

[SlateModGarage]

A good used set of seats will be cheaper I think.

 

[JeffVA]

Does anybody know anything about the seat quality that Slate plans on using? I know the goal is to keep costs down, but comfort is a big deal for me. If it’s like my RAV4, I may have to look for a replacement. If it’s like the BMW or Tesla seats then it’s a winner. The videos show what looks like a pretty thin seat. Has anybody sat in one?

I would expect basic seats of good durable quality and basic comfort to keep it in line with their utilitarian goal for this truck. I would be happy if it had a manual lumbar support

 

[SichuanHot]

Hopefully the seat mount is pretty flexible because if the stock seat is poorly made with no support or lumbar, I'll yoink a E46 sport seat and put in the truck. By far the E46 sport seats are still one of the most comfortable seats ever.