The Slate Truck is the first product from Michigan-based Slate Auto.
It’s a machine designed to be extremely basic, extremely customizable, and extremely affordable.
Those are not your typical design goals, but then the Slate Truck isn’t the fruit of your typical design process.
Instead of steel or aluminum, the Slate Truck’s body panels are molded of #plastic.
The theory is that this makes them more durable and scratch-resistant, if only because the lack of paint means they’re #one #color all the way through.
Slate continues the theme through to the upholstery, a heathered textile that was designed to get better looking as it wears. The idea is to lean into the #aged #aesthetic.
But not everybody will dig the shark theme, and so the Slate Truck is designed to be #customizable to a degree never seen before on a production vehicle. Johnson says this is in contrast to the overly curated experience offered by many brands.
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