Slate Auto, Bozie New EV Startup This week he broke the stealthIs near to lock in the former printing plant Is located As a future production site for your cheap electric truck in Warsaw, Indiana, public records appear.
It is expected that the company will lease 1.4 million square feet facilities for unknown money. Economic development officials said Local media earlier this year (Without Name of Slate) 2,000 people may be employed in the factory, and that the County offered a privileged package to an unknown company.
It is not immediately clear what is included in this privileged package or if it has been finalized. Slate did not immediately respond to a comment request. Kosiosco County Economic Development Corporation CEO Pagi Juma said in an email that he was “under a strict non -diagnosis agreement with the project.”
During Thursday’s event, the Slate showed aerial photo of the factory. The company did not say where it is located, but match the picture Public listings for this facility Indiana is available on the Economic Development Corporation website. Tech Crunch had earlier reported that the company had planned to cost less than 20,000, after a federal tax credit in Indiana.
Chris Berman, CEO of Slate, said on the stage when the factory photo was shown on a screen behind it, “In the United States, our truck will be made as part of a commitment to re -industrial in the United States.”
The slate focus on domestic manufacturing is embedded in the company’s DNA. The beginning was originally created inside the Re: the construction of manufacturing, a Massachusett -based company that focused on improving the ability to make the country’s goods.
The factory in Warsaw was built in 1958, and the company was printed and occupied for decades. According to local media, it has been inactive for almost two years.
Changing a factory, especially one that was not already pumping cars, is not a cheap or easy task. The Slate has gathered a serious war chest to help deal with this purpose. It was supported by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Gogin Ham Partners CEO Mark Walter, and Power House VC firm General Catalist, Startup has added more than 100 million to date.
The slate view should also help keep the cost of designing and building your electric truck. The company plans to wrap the trucks rather than paint, which means it does not need to make a paint shop in the factory. It can only save hundreds of millions in the construction of the plant.