Manufacturing

Ford to spend $7B on EV campuses in Ky., Tenn.

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A rendering of Blue Oval City planned by Ford Motor Co. The site, northeast of Memphis, Tenn., will become home to 6,000 workers to assemble next-generation electric F-Series pickups, with battery cell production and a supplier park. It's slated to open in 2025. (FORD)
September 27, 2021 11:00 PM

DETROIT — Ford Motor Co., in what it says is the largest single manufacturing investment in its 118-year history, on Monday said it would spend $7 billion and create nearly 11,000 jobs to build electric vehicles and batteries in Tennessee and Kentucky.

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