Ford's Tennessee Plant to Produce 500,000 Units of EV per Year

According to foreign media reports, Ford said on March 24 that the company plans to produce as many as 500,000 units of electric trucks a year at its Blue Oval City plant in western Tennessee, which is under construction. Blue Oval City will be responsible for assembling versions of Ford's next-generation F-Series electric trucks, which the company calls Project T3.

At an event at the plant on March 24, Ford CEO Jim Farley said the plant would start production in "about 30 months," which would start in the fall of 2025.

The plant in Stanton, Memphis, is part of Ford's electric vehicle plan, which the company hopes will increase its global production capacity to 2 million units of electric vehicles a year by the end of 2026.