Slate Auto eyes former Indiana printing plant for its EV truck production

Slate Auto, Buzzy New Home Start This week has broken a secretclose to locking in the former print plant which Warsaw shows the investigation of public records for cheap electric truck as a future production location in Indiana.

The company is expected to be leased by an unexplained amount of 1.4 million square meters. Economic development officials explained Local media earlier this year (Calling Slate) The factory can hire up to 2,000 people and offered a unexplained company in the district.

It is not immediately clear when the incentive package is entered or ended. The slate did not respond immediately to a request for comment. Peggy Friday, CEO of Kosciusko District Economic Development Corporation, “With a serious agreement with the project,” he said.

Slate showed the air photo of the factory on Thursday. The company did not say where it is located, but the photo is compatible with a Social list for the mechanism Indiana is available on the website of the Economic Development Corporation. TechCrunch previously reported that the company will cost $ 20,000 after the Federal Tax Loan in Indiana.

“As part of our commitment to the United States, the truck in the United States will be held here in the United States,” said SLOTE CEO Chris Barman, the factory photo was seen on a screen behind him.

The direction of the internal production of Slazes was installed in DNA. The beginning was originally established in the RE – manufactures production, a Massachusetts-based company is aimed at increasing the country’s work capacity.

The factory in Warsaw was built in 1958 and has been occupied by RR Donnelly for decades. According to local media, for about two years, it has been immobile for about two years.

A factory, especially the conversion of a factory that does not removed machines, is not cheap or easy. Slate collected a serious war chest to convey this goal. Guggenheim Partners Supported by the Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Guggheim partners, the general catalyst of Guggenheim partners and Powerhouse VC, the start of the beginning of the beginning of more than $ 100 million.

The approach should help reduce the cost of the slate and putting the cost of electricity. The company plans to sell dresses for trucks instead of painting them, ie you do not need to build a paint shop in the factory. Only this can save a hundreds of millions in the process of building Slesses.