SK On/Blue Oval: Glendale, Ky., and Stanton, Tenn.
Battery cellular manufacturing on the SK On-Ford Motor Co. three way partnership in Kentucky and Tennessee is ready to start out in 2025. Ford and SK On plan to take a position a mixed $11.4 billion and form just about 11,000 jobs on the Tennessee and Kentucky websites. Ford expects the BlueOval SK battery websites — two crops in Kentucky and one in Tennessee — to put together about 129 GWh of energy a age. The batteries will aid Ford’s goal of two million EVs globally via the top of 2026.
In Tennessee, BlueOval Town will center of attention on meeting of Ford’s electrical F-Line lineup and can come with a battery plant, providers and battery recycling on web site. Ford and SK On plan to rent about 6,000 staff for his or her mission.
The companions will rent any other 5,000 workers for the Kentucky places. Latter past, the U.S. Segment of Power stated it’ll mortgage $9.2 billion to the Ford-SK On undertaking to aid their battery plant funding.
