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SLATE: One Size Doesn’t Fit All

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Bill Whittle Network

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4.8746 Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2026

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Suppose you have a nice SUV and That Friend Of Yours needs help moving over the weekend. Right now you have a great excuse… but with this revolutionary new idea from a car company called Slate, you could just… you know… CONVERT the SUV into a pickup and then back again. It’s quite a concept: and Scott Ott is a True Believer!

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Do you ever see a commercial and go,

0:02.0

That's not what I want?

0:04.0

This is what I want.

0:06.0

And you start shouting at the TV saying,

0:08.0

why can't you make one of these?

0:10.0

Well, ladies and gentlemen, I'm here to tell you today,

0:13.0

I think they did it.

0:15.0

I'm Scott Ott with Bill Whittle and Steven Green

0:17.0

in this episode of Right Angles

0:18.0

brought to you by the members at

0:20.0

Bill Whittle.com. And gentlemen, what they did is answer potentially.

0:25.0

I'm just going by a video that I saw on Jay Leno's Garage,

0:28.5

a YouTube series with Jay Leno.

0:32.2

And what they've done, Stephen Green,

0:34.8

is a company has created a vehicle designed to manufacture and designed

0:43.3

to modularly, I can't even say that word, to change this vehicle as you order it, to make it

0:52.3

the way you want it, and to make it easy to repair and change things

0:57.4

later. The vehicle is called Slate. The company can be found at slate. Auto. They are not a sponsor

1:04.8

of this program along with all of the other companies. And they have come up with this pickup truck that can be turned into an SUV,

1:14.2

that can be turned into kind of an open Jeep-like thing depending on which modules you want.

1:20.5

And you can have them put that together for you, or they'll just ship it to you in a flat box

1:27.1

and you can add it yourself.

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