Duh, you are partnering with Solid Power for their Solid State battery, they want to monetize it, ok go with your Korean Partner in VA, let them build it, win/win. You want a higher performance Battery for Lincolns? Get a like arrangement for QuantumScape Batteries at this location.
Duh...
Right. The Kentucky plant is expressly an South Korea partnership, not sure why Ford simply did not sublimate the Chinese contract into the monster that is BlueOvalSK, given that the run-up time is BOSK is a year ahead and was already scaled for potential overcapacity (24/7) production.
It will be interesting to see if the CCP make overtures to Roy Cooper one state south. Ford is hardly an "American" company in many ways, including their 1/3 stake in Jiangling Motors, and their CCP-compelled co-ownership of Changan Ford.