Slate Automotive Advances in Warsaw While Cummins Pauses a $2B Battery JV

Slate Automotive's customizable, sub-$25,000 electric truck is moving forward at its Warsaw plant, while Cummins has paused its $2 billion Amplify Cell Technologies battery joint venture with Daimler Truck and Paccar in Mississippi, citing weakening commercial EV demand. When asked directly whether the joint-venture agreement allows partners to withdraw, Cummins declined to answer, an indicator of active renegotiation, not a clean pause. Slate's path to its 2,000 projected Kosciusko County jobs depends on converting 180,000 soft reservations into binding $300 deposits. Suppliers to either program should stress-test a two-to-three-year delay against current production commitments.