Ford Motor Co. recently announced its $5.6 billion electric vehicle and battery manufacturing campus project is on schedule.
The BlueOval City 3,600-acre campus in West Tennessee will begin production in 2025. It will produce an electric truck, code-named Project T3 (Trust The Truck), with a capacity of 500,000 trucks annually at full production, and will build battery cells and arrays and assemble battery packs. The batteries will be delivered across campus to the assembly plant in less than 30 minutes.
“BlueOval City is the blueprint for Ford’s electric future around the world,” Ford Executive Chairman Bill Ford said. “We will build revolutionary electric vehicles at an advanced manufacturing site that works in harmony with the planet, aligning business growth and innovation with environmental progress.”
When the factory opens, it will use carbon-free electricity generated from the campus’ utility infrastructure and geothermal system. This will save approximately 300 million cubic feet of natural gas annually.
The campus’ utility system will save 50 million gallons of water annually by reducing evaporation from the site’s cooling towers. The site will not use fresh water but, instead, use a stormwater management system.
Ford aims to produce 2 million electric vehicles annually worldwide by late 2026.