BlueOval City will make Ford’s second-generation electric truck, code named Project T3with the capacity of 500,000 EV trucks a year at full production. Tennessee is a “right to work” (for less?) state, which means workers don’t have to be unionized. Tennessee sent at least $884 million in incentives and tax breaks from its taxpayers to close the deal announced back in September of 2021.

The sprawling assembly plant will use carbon-free electricity from the day it opens. For the first time in 120 years, Ford is also using recovered energy from the site’s utility infrastructure and geothermal system to provide carbon-free heat for the assembly plant. This will save about 300 million cubic feet of natural gas typically needed each year to heat similarly-sized vehicle assembly plants, Ford claimed.

Ford’s Project T3 is developing its second-generation EV truck concurrently with the new assembly plant. Ford claims resulting efficiencies,such as a 30% smaller general assembly footprint than traditional plants, while delivering higher production capacity.

The 3600-acre campus also has a fully integrated BlueOval SK battery manufacturing on-site. It will build battery cells, arrays and assemble battery packs that will be delivered just across the site into the assembly plant in less than 30 minutes.

It’s ironic that the state of Michigan today repealed the state’s right to work law – the birthplace and longstanding home of Ford Motor. “Today, we are coming together to restore workers’ rights, protect Michiganders on the job, and grow Michigan’s middle class,” Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer said when signing the legislation.