Slate production line w/ frames! Current status video (5/19/26)

[atx_ev]

New video posted by Slate is showing vehicle frames. Can anyone get any useful information from the video of the frames?

 

[cadblu]

It looks like the first (5) frames are in the robotic welding cell. Could they be the first to enter into production?

I do like the flying drone video!

 

[sodamo]

Idea
Jun 22 -video montage of Blank Slate being built, progressing down the production line ending with finished Slate coming off the line, declaring status and announcing price, blazened across front $22,000.

 

[ScooterAsheville]

I was interested that the second firewall was darker than the others. Also, you can see the footwell cutout in the bed area. I was wondering where the battery pack goes? At bottom of course, but at what part of the vehicle. My wild guess would be that it's beneath the passenger compartment/footwell area.

Just looking at the upper frame, a few thoughts. A simple manual sunroof looks doable. Four doors is interesting, because there's an upper frame rail in that space. But I'm sure the engineers already have that figured out.

What would be cool (Slate Marketing, are you listening?) is an animated exploded view where you could scroll to see the parts explode out and then back in to their assembled state.

Nice to see something at last that looks real.

 

[Kopsis]

Could they be the first to enter into production?

Not likely. They'll be slated for things like weld inspection (some of which will be destructive), structural stress testing, etc. Odds of having a robotic chassis assembly line "good enough" on the first try are pretty low. This is normal procedure. Build a small lot (enough that you can get statistically significant results), test, tweak the process, repeat. I wouldn't be surprised if it takes a dozen small runs to get the bugs worked out.