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Ford plans biggest new manufacturing investment ever in Tennessee

Ford announces giant new electric pickup truck factory plus three new battery gigafactories:

https://electrek.co/2021/09/27/ford-announces-giant-new-electric-pickup-truck-factory-3-new-battery-gigafactories/

Ford made a massive announcement today about accelerating electric vehicle production with a giant new factory to produce electric pickup trucks in Tennessee and three new battery gigafactories.

The massive new project is called ‘Blue Oval City’.

There’s a lot to unpack here, but here are the main new announcements:

Blue Oval City is going to be a complex constructed on a nearly 6-square-mile site in west Tennessee to build next-generation electric F-Series pickups and advanced batteries.
The battery plant is going to be in partnership with SK Innovation, a large Korea-based battery cell manufacturer.
On top of the battery plant at Blue Oval City, Ford and SK will build a new “BlueOvalSK Battery Park” in central Kentucky. It will consist of “twin battery plants that will power a new lineup of Ford and Lincoln EVs.”
Blue Oval City is going to be built in Stanton, Tennessee and the twin battery factories are going to be built in Glendale, Kentucky.