Ford will build Super Duty pickup trucks at its Oakville, Ontario plant, and not the three-row electric SUV that was planned for the facility. Auto123.
There’s good news this week for workers at Ford's assembly plant in Oakville, Ontario. The automaker has announced it will invest $2.3 billion to renovate the plant to build Super Duty pickup trucks; a stamping section on the site will also be renovated.
For Oakville plant workers, the news is indeed very good because they were due to be laid off for three years. Ford’s plan was to shutter renovated the plant, which produced the Ford Edge among other vehicles, so that it could assemble a new three-row electric SUV. Production was originally scheduled to start in 2025 on that model, but that has now been postponed until 2027, another of the changes automakers are making to their electric-model plans as consumer demand wavers.
The Unifor union representing the plant's workers said the change of course for Oakville addressed the union's concerns that the two-year renovation period was “too long, too disruptive and too damaging to accept.”
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