Truck Bed Secret Storage?

[KevinRS]

In case this photo of the "footwell" panel may help, taken at last year's Olympia WA event.

What I want to see is a good shot of the inside of the cab behind the front seat as a truck, and compare that to the same area as an SUV. If that rectangular panel with 2 screws visible only hides the bolt down points for the seat, and the "footwell" is only that maybe 2 inches covered by the panel that is curved at the ends, then there is no need to worry about secret storage.

 

[AZFox]

Might be time for a poll.

I think what they've been calling a footwell cover will turn out to have the footwell underneath it.

 

[ElectricShitbox]

I think all of the photos clearly show where the footwell is vs where the seat mounts.

Maybe Slate engineers sit cross-legged, causing the terminology confusion.

 

[KevinRS]

I think all of the photos clearly show where the footwell is vs where the seat mounts.

Maybe Slate engineers sit cross-legged, causing the terminology confusion.

The possibility I am looking at is that most of the rear legroom in the SUV is already in the truck cab, behind the front seats. That could be the reason for the silence from Slate about using the dead space in the pickup configuration, if there really isn't much dead space at all.

From looking at photos from the rear, the rear seatback appears to be right in front of the wheel well.
Trying to mentally calculate where that puts the front edge of the seat here.
Looking at that truck bed shot from Olympia, that rectangular cover goes from between the wheel wells, just barely, to the second cover with the curved corners. The seat just about has to cover that whole rectangular space.
Not trying to rain on anybody's parade here, just pointing out a possibility. On the other hand, what I am looking at the bed details of the photos in this thread https://www.slateforums.com/forum/t...r-window-open-on-display-in-sacramento.13564/ the bed ridges seem to end right where the seat mounts, so maybe 2 different prototypes with some differences. The back seat seems to be in front of the wheel wells but at the ridges there, while in the olympia photo the ridges end between the wheels.

Anyway, my bet would be when 6'5" guy moved that seat back, he ate up all the legroom behind him, if in SUV config and anyone bigger than a toddler in a carseat behind him would have a problem. That toddler would be kicking his seat.

This probably won't be resolved until instructional videos on doing the conversion are released, showing those covers removed.

 

[ElectricShitbox]

If anyone is unclear on it, the blue arrows are where the rear seat goes, and the orange arrows are where the footwell is, which is between the front seats and the midgate in pickup mode.

There is probably some space under the panel where the seat mounts, but based on the shape of the battery pack, probably not much.

Any red string is from a separate conspiracy theory.