DEARBORN - Ford Motor Company is dropping $3.5 billion to create an electric vehicle battery park in Marshall, which Michigan's Economic Development Corporation is hoping to back with a $210 million state-funded attraction award. Last Monday, at the Ford Battery Center of Excellence in Romulus, Ford Chief Executive Officer Jim Farley announced how the $3.5
MARSHALL – Ford announced Feb. 13 it is investing $3.5 billion to build the country’s first automaker-backed LFP battery plant, offering customers a second battery technology within Ford’s EV lineup. This plant – called BlueOval Battery Park Michigan – initially will employ 2,500 people when production of LFP batteries begins in 2026. Ford will have
Ford appears ready to announce plans to build a massive $3.5 billion electric vehicle battery plant in Southwestern Michigan. The automaker’s scheduled a news conference at its Ion Park battery development facility just outside of Detroit for Monday. According to the advisory, the event will focus on Ford’s latest push to “scale EVs quickly and,
