Slate will manufacture its seats in house at Warsaw factory

[E90400K]

huh?

Nevermind. Brainfart. Was thinking Wheelhorse.

 

[Luxrage]

If side-curtain airbags in seats are not mandatory, and I don't think they are, seat manufacturing in-house should be fairly straight forward. Frame, foam, cover, mount it to the truck. Funnily enough there's a manufacturing facility right by me that makes custom seats and upholstery for aircraft and it's a fairly small footprint for the volume they allegedly produce. Should be able to fit that right in with the rest of the factory if they outsource the frames.

 

[E90400K]

You have to look at the seating manufacturers. Tesla does their own seating because in the beginning the big 3 threatened the suppliers to not sell to Tesla. No reason to think that is not the reason now.
tesla says cost per unit is lower than the union based suppliers anyway so it worked out for them.

I'm thinking such tactics are long past gone, but who knows.

 

[cadblu]

It does appear that Slate uses seat side airbags for the driver and front passenger. So that will be part of the assembly process.

If you follow Sandy Munro, who has a few You Tube interviews on the Slate, he praised the comfort and ergonomic support of Tesla seats. In fact, Sandy uses a modified Tesla seat as his office chair!