Inside Slate’s radical design process to build a $24,950 EV truck you won’t be embarrassed to drive

Inside a sprawling former printing plant in Warsaw, Indiana, the new factory for Slate Auto —the affordable, ultra-minimal electric truck backed by Jeff Bezos—doesn’t look like a typical car manufacturing plant. There’s no paint shop, something that can cost automakers $300 million or more to build. The factory doesn’t have standard stamping equipment to cut out metal parts like doors, which can cost another $100 million.