Founded in 2022, Slate Auto began as a project within Re:Build Manufacturing, a domestic manufacturing incubator co-founded by Jeff Wilke, the former CEO of Amazon’s consumer division. The company are headquartered in Troy, Michigan, with a design studio in Long Beach, California, and are thought to be planning a production plant in Indiana.
Slate aim to offer this box-on-wheels electric pickup truck at a starting price of around USD $25,000. Ahead of the official announcement, Slate recently parked prototype vehicles on the streets of Venice, California, wrapped with branding for fictitious companies. These non-functional design bucks included a pickup truck, a coupé-like SUV, and a boxier SUV.
The whole thing looks like a great example of how to do a nice design with really basic components, that is really what they did if we look at the lamp design. Really fascinating!
