Peter Faricy today assumed the role of Chief Executive Officer of Slate Auto , an American electric vehicle startup. Faricy takes over the job from Chris Barman, who will continue work at the company as its President of Vehicles. Slate is expanding its leadership team and shuffling the organizational tree to match the next steps of its growth as it readies to convert reservations to orders by the end of the year. “Slate was built with an obsessive, heads-down focus on reinventing the vehicle by