News: Slate exploring different battery supplier. SUV kit price to be $5000 range

[KevinRS]

I think they may still be at a stage where a battery change is possible. Last factory update we saw, they were still in demo, and had pallets of only the most basic parts of the assembly line on hand, like parts of the track vehicles would move along, that would be needed whatever the configuration. As long as batteries from another supplier can be built into a pack that fits the same footprint in the vehicle, that's only a short branch of the line that changes at all.