Ford’s BlueOval City electric vehicle and battery manufacturing campus in West Tennessee is scheduled to begin production in 2025. It will be home to Ford’s second-generation electric truck, code named Project T3, and will be capable of producing 500,000 EV trucks a year at full production.
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Ford Motor’s new plant being constructed outside Memphis, Tennessee, will be capable of building 500,000 electric vehicles annually at full production, the company said Friday.
The first and only product to be announced thus far for the “BlueOval City” plant is a next-generation electric truck, which Ford has code-named “T3,” short for “TrustTheTruck.”
“Project T3 is a once in-a-lifetime opportunity to revolutionize America’s truck,” Ford CEO Jim Farley said Friday in a release. “It will be a platform for endless innovation and capability.”
Additional products using Ford’s next-generation EV architecture could be produced alongside the truck, however a company spokesman declined to comment on future product plans for the plant.
Ford and South Korea-based battery supplier SK On are investing $5.6 billion in the BlueOval City campus, including a large battery cell plant. Production at the plants is on track to begin in 2025, Ford said Friday.
BlueOval City is a key part of Ford’s plans to be capable of producing 2 million EVs in 2026, which is also the target for the company’s Model e EV business to achieve an 8% EBIT profit margin.
Ford on Thursday for the first time detailed its finances for business units including EVs, which lost $2.1 billion last year and are expected to lose as much as $3 billion in 2023.
