Ford starts construction of BlueOval City in Tennessee, BluOvalSK in Kentucky
. The Kentucky site will contain two battery plants, and the Tennessee location will house one and is now under construction. Though the announcement calls this the beginning of construction, the automaker’s crews have already moved millions of cubic yards of soil and stone.
Ford’s investment will also bring thousands of jobs to the states, including almost 6,000 at the Stanton, Tennessee, location and 5,000 at the Glendale, Kentucky, facility. When all is said and done, Ford says the new facilities will offer a combined 129 gigawatt hours of production capacity yearly. Demand for Ford’s EVs has been strong, and the automaker has struggled to build enough vehicles. Ford doubled its projected build numbers for the new
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