Ford To Produce 500,000 Pickups In Tennessee Yearly

A new Ford assembly plant being built in western Tennessee will be able to build up to 500,000 electric pickup trucks per year at full production, the company said, Adrian Sainz reported for Associated Press (AP).

Photo Insert: Construction on the site, named BlueOval City, began last year. Ford has said it plans to start production by 2025, and it said Friday that timetable remains in place.

The Dearborn, Michigan, automaker announced in September of 2021 that it would build the plant and a battery factory on a 3,600-acre (1,460-hectare) parcel of land in rural Stanton, northeast of Memphis.

Known as the Memphis Regional Megasite, the land designated by the state for industrial development sat unused for years before Ford decided to move in.

Construction on the site, named BlueOval City, began last year. Ford has said it plans to start production by 2025, and it said Friday that the timetable remains in place.

The automaker also said its second-generation electric truck is “codenamed Project T3.” Ford’s assembly plant and a battery plant run by a joint venture called BlueOvalSK will employ about 6,000 people with an investment of roughly $5.6 billion, Ford said.

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