Posted on 03/26/2023 7:39:40 PM PDT by lowbridge
Ford Motor's new plant being constructed outside Memphis, Tennessee, will be capable of building 500,000 electric vehicles annually at full production, the company said Friday.
The first and only product to be announced thus far for the "BlueOval City" plant is a next-generation electric truck, which Ford has code-named "T3," short for "TrustTheTruck."
"Project T3 is a once in-a-lifetime opportunity to revolutionize America's truck," Ford CEO Jim Farley said Friday in a release. "It will be a platform for endless innovation and capability."
Additional products using Ford's next-generation EV architecture could be produced alongside the truck, however a company spokesman declined to comment on future product plans for the plant.
Ford and South Korea-based battery supplier SK On are investing $5.6 billion in the BlueOval City campus, including a large battery cell plant. Production at the plants is on track to begin in 2025, Ford said Friday.
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Do away with gas fireplaces, and gas appliances, gas water heaters and furnaces - mandate EV’s - and what do you think happens to the price of Electricity?
That’s the Plan
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The president of Toyota said Toyota will not build many EVs until the infrastructure can support them.
Add to that, antifa (fbi cough cough) bombing electric plants and distribution lines. Oh no, no power for you sucker.
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Nice! Take care of your last Gas Vehicle!
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A whole lot more four year old children are going to be needed in the cobalt mines to keep up with the demand.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4764208/Child-miners-aged-four-living-hell-Earth.html
Somebody from Biden Administration probably told them. My guess most states will ban new ICE vehicles by 2035. A federal ban by 2040? Then there will be a carbon tax on gasoline. You can drive your old ICE vehicle but it will be expensive. By 2050, gas stations will be banned. No one will use gas except for the military.
They should probably plan on going out of business too.
“Ford plans to build 500,000 EVs annually at its $5.6 billion Tennessee campus”
Really. How many does it plan on selling?
Toyota is betting on a DeSantis presidency. Other automakers are placing their bets on Newsom (by 2028).
Insanity. The electrical grid can’t support EVs, and they are doing absolutely nothing to change that.
While the ruling class may think turning the middle class into sessile serfs is a great plan, the technology that lets that ruling class live a comfortable life depends on large numbers of highly educated and/or skilled people.
The drive to achieve that education and hone those skills depends on those people seeing a concrete benefit to themselves by doing so. Nobody is going to bother getting an engineering degree to earn minimum wage and live in a dump they can never leave.
Nice knowin ya, Grid!
Oh I will. My Ford is about to turn 500K on the odometer.
And I have a ‘79 VW in good working order.
or the AVAILABILITY?
Electric can be shut off really ez too,
Good luck with all that battery crap so popular it has to be forced on people
The Democratic Party Elite will be able to buy EVs, ordinary folks like us will take mass transit. Hope you like taking the bus.
Golf carts?
I cannot believe that a vehicle purchase has become political.
Automakers are being forced to sell EV’s and are making up for their losses by tagging on higher prices for ICE vehicles. I cannot afford their political correctness. I need a truck that will tow a trailer and will last a long time and I won’t be lectured to by an automaker by proxy about saving the planet.
I think the automakers are hedging their bets. Right now, they see that Generation Z is woke and they are all about saving the planet. So they will make the EVs even though there's no practical need to manufacture them.
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