Slate Auto confirms where you will build a $ 20,000 truck

Since Slate Auto came out of the hide position last week, the Internet was equipped with speculation about the fine details of the super electric truck, which is scheduled to cost only $ 20,000 when production entered next year-on our assumption Federal EV incentives She is still in place by that time.

One of these questions was the place where Slate would build something, with a Techcrunch A report indicating a factory in Indiana. Today we can officially confirm the details. Slate Auto will replace a current factory of 1.4 million square feet in Warsaw, Indiana, where the company plans to produce 150,000 trucks annually.

If you missed All excitement last weekSlate truck is radically simplified with 150 miles of domain, which is a bare machine that can be considered a lifeline car. It has no touch screen, no radio, no electric windows, and no paint.

These were some of the necessary concessions to make EV inexpensive in the United States, but some of these concessions that show the functioning of unique production.

Since the truck does not have a coating, the Slate Auto factory does not need an expensive paint store. (Mercedes-Benz recently spent one billion dollars reported in building a new one.) Because the body panels are made of a form of plastic, this factory can exceed the huge presses used to seal the metal body panels in the shape.

Slate will build its production center in the former RR Donnelyly facility in Warsaw, Indiana, a printing press responsible for filling your mailbox with the core of the catalog from retailers. It was closed in September 2023, leaving more than 500 people from work.

When you reopen it next year, says Jeff Japansky, head of public relations and communications at Slate Auto, says the plan is to employ 2000 people in the facility. Slate will not confirm the total investment that the update modification of the facility, or the conditions for using Slate for property, will not confirm only that the renovations will cost hundreds of millions of dollars.

All this will need to be completed before the truck can start production, which is currently scheduled for Q4 of 2026.

At an altitude of 1.4 million square feet, the Slate facility is about a quarter of the size of the Tesla’s Fremont Factory, which currently produces about 650,000 cars annually. Again, Slate hopes to produce more than 150,000 trucks annually in this facility, an annual production rate that took Tesla more than five years to achieve in Fremont. Looking at the simplified manufacturing process, the Slate definitely hopes to move more quickly.

Slate is committed not only to manufacture the truck in the United States but also using local suppliers as well. “The car is designed, engineered and manufactured in the United States, with the majority of our supply chain in the United States,” Jeremy Snyder, the chief trading official in Slit, told us before the truck appeared for the first time. With the escalation of global trade wars, this looks like a sound step.