Ford's new plant in West Tennessee will be able to produce up to 500 electric pickup trucks a year at full capacity, the company announced.
The American automaker announced in September 2021 that it will build a battery plant on a 1,46-thousand-acre site in Stanton, northeast of Memphis.
Construction on the BlueOval City site began last year. Ford said it plans to start production of the second-generation electric truck "codenamed Project T3" by 2025, SEEbiz reports.
Ford's assembly plant and battery factory, run by a joint venture called BlueOvalSK, will employ about 5,6 people, with an investment of US$XNUMX billion, company officials said.
BlueOvalSK will also build two battery factories in Glendale, Kentucky, in an investment of US$5,8 billion. It is expected that the projects will create around 10,8 thousand jobs.
The Tennessee plant will produce carbon-neutral vehicles using renewable energy.
Some of the rural West Tennessee counties surrounding the plant hope it will help boost their economies.
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