Slate will ship its minimalist, ultra-customizable pickup later this year with a different battery pack than the one it announced when it first revealed the EV last April. The Jeff Bezos-backed auto startup has swapped out its planned nickel manganese cobalt (NMC) battery for a lower-cost lithium iron phosphate (LFP) pack from a new supplier, the company announced Wednesday.
The new batteries will be supplied by Gotion, Chris Barman, Slate’s president of vehicles, told InsideEVs. Gotion will make them at its factory in Illinois, not too far from Slate’s own plant housed in a former printing facility in Indiana.
