Ford Builds the Future!
A New Way of Building is Being Built
Today, Ford Motor Company announced the company’s largest single manufacturing investment in the company’s history: $11.4 billion, creating 11,000 new jobs, building two brand new mega-campuses in western Tennessee and central Kentucky, expanding the historic Rouge plant in Michigan, and kicking off a $575 million investment in technician training across America. All to power the electrified future of transportation. The 6 square-mile Tennessee campus, Blue Oval City, which will produce both electric vehicles and batteries to power them, will be the largest campus in the United States and the most environmentally and technologically advanced. The site will be carbon neutral, powered by 100% renewable energy and reuse water, with zero waste to landfill. In Kentucky, twin plants will churn out 43 gigawatt-hours of batteries each per year - in total, the two sites in the heart of America will build batteries for a million cars per year!
We aimed for this future during our Google.org RechargeIT project back in 2006-2007. At a time when there was only one plug-in hybrid in the world, we sought to showcase the potential of and inspire the acceleration of the electrification of transportation for our climate. It is incredibly moving to see Ford Motor Company lead this transformation growth, and we are proud to be on the CIVIC Entertainment Group Team, honored to have Christensen Global advancing our mission to achieve collective wellbeing by building a just, resilient, and thriving world. Ford’s innovation and leadership is a model for realizing the vision of a more fun, more efficient world, better for people, communities, and planet.
Christensen Global Founder and CEO, Aimée Christensen said, "We are proud to be supporting Ford Motor Company's investment in America's electric future in the heart of our nation. As a lifelong climate advocate, I'm moved watching Ford announce the largest investment in its history, building two new mega-campuses to meet the moment. We can't wait to see the innovation of its Blue Oval City campus in Tennessee, which will be 100% renewable energy, zero waste to landfill, recapture and reuse its water, and be carbon neutral."
We love the support from our friends at National Wildlife Federation and Environmental Defense Fund for their support and continued leadership for our better future!
A message from Ford
Today, in Tennessee and Kentucky, Ford marks a transformative moment for our company, outlining our plans to bring electric vehicles at scale to American customers with two new massive, environmentally and technologically advanced campuses in Tennessee and Kentucky that will produce the next generation of electric F-Series trucks and the batteries to power future electric Ford and Lincoln vehicles. Ford plans to make the largest ever U.S. investment in electric vehicles at one time by any automotive manufacturer and, together with its partner, SK Innovation, plans to invest $11.4 billion and create nearly 11,000 new jobs at the Tennessee and Kentucky mega-sites, strengthening local communities and building on Ford’s position as America’s leading employer of hourly autoworkers.
What Ford Leadership is Saying:
“This is a transformative moment where Ford will lead America’s transition to electric vehicles and usher in a new era of clean, carbon-neutral manufacturing,” said Ford Executive Chair Bill Ford. “With this investment and a spirit of innovation, we can achieve goals once thought mutually exclusive – protect our planet, build great electric vehicles Americans will love and contribute to our nation’s prosperity.”
“This is our moment – our biggest investment ever – to help build a better future for America,” said Jim Farley, Ford president and CEO. “We are moving now to deliver breakthrough electric vehicles for the many rather than the few. It’s about creating good jobs that support American families, an ultra-efficient, carbon-neutral manufacturing system, and a growing business that delivers value for communities, dealers and shareholders.”
“We’re putting in the hard work to remake ourselves to win in this new era, and that includes making sure we are meeting the collective challenge of climate change,” said Bob Holycross, Ford vice president, sustainability, environment and safety engineering