Last year, CleanTechnica reported on the collaboration between Ford Motor Corp. and Rockwell Automation for automation on the shop floors of the Ford Blue Oval City, an approximately $6 billion mega manufacturing facility in Stanton, Tennessee. Once fully operational, the factory can create approximately 6,000 new jobs and, according to Ford, will “reimagine how vehicles and batteries are manufactured.”
Ford is building a second plant in Glendale, Kentucky, for batteries alone. The company officially broke ground for the plant on December 5 of last year. Called the Ford Blue Oval SK Battery Park, the $5.8 billion project will produce batteries for the Ford and Lincoln EV lines and in turn create 5,000 new jobs in the town.
While the commencement of production at Blue Oval SK 2 faced…
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