{"id":15485,"date":"2023-04-16T03:37:18","date_gmt":"2023-04-16T10:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/ford-to-invest-1-3b-to-overhaul-canada-manufacturing-site-for-ev-production\/"},"modified":"2023-04-16T03:37:18","modified_gmt":"2023-04-16T10:37:18","slug":"ford-to-invest-1-3b-to-overhaul-canada-manufacturing-site-for-ev-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/ford-to-invest-1-3b-to-overhaul-canada-manufacturing-site-for-ev-production\/","title":{"rendered":"Ford to invest $1.3B to overhaul Canada manufacturing site for EV production"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/files\/membership-default-internal\/\" class=\"memberhide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2023\/01\/20220718_175041000_iOS.jpg\" alt=\"-\"><\/a><br\/><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<h3>Dive Brief:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Ford will invest <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/media.ford.com\/content\/fordmedia\/fna\/us\/en\/news\/2023\/04\/11\/ford_s-oakville--ontario--complex-prepares-to-build-next-gen-evs.html\" target=\"_blank\">$1.3 billion to overhaul its Oakville Assembly Complex<\/a>\u00a0in Ontario, Canada, for EV production, the company announced Tuesday.<\/li>\n<li>The automaker will repurpose its existing buildings to meet new manufacturing needs, as well as build a 407,000-square-foot, on-site battery assembly facility.<\/li>\n<li>Renovations at the plant will begin in Q2 2024, with plans to start producing EVs by mid-decade.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Dive Insight:<\/h3>\n<p>Ford\u2019s Oakville campus already includes three body shops, one paint building and one assembly building.\u00a0With the expansion, it will now include a battery assembly facility relying on cells and arrays produced at its joint venture battery park in Kentucky, according to the release. Oakville workers will assemble the battery packs, which will be installed in EVs\u00a0assembled on-site.<\/p>\n<p>The company\u2019s plans in Ontario are part of the automaker\u2019s broader effort to bring more of its EV production in-house.<\/p>\n<p>The strategy is led by the company\u2019s EV manufacturing hub in Tennessee, which will house a battery factory, assembly plant and component suppliers.\u00a0At the time of BlueOval City\u2019s groundbreaking, the automaker\u2019s director of new footprint construction Eric Grubb called the site a \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.supplychaindive.com\/news\/ford-breaks-ground-on-tennessee-mega-campus-for-ev-production\/632677\/\" target=\"_blank\">blueprint for Ford\u2019s manufacturing facilities<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCanada and the Oakville complex will play a vital role in our Ford+ transformation,\u201d\u00a0President and CEO Jim Farley said in a statement. \u201cIt will be a modern, super-efficient, vertically integrated site for battery and vehicle assembly.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-5143531171910809\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- News - Bottom -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-5143531171910809\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"8320848692\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.constructiondive.com\/news\/ford-invest-1-3-billion-canada-factory-ev\/647635\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This article was originally posted at Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dive Brief: Ford will invest $1.3 billion to overhaul its Oakville Assembly Complex\u00a0in Ontario, Canada, for EV production, the company &#8230; <a title=\"Ford to invest $1.3B to overhaul Canada manufacturing site for EV production\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/ford-to-invest-1-3b-to-overhaul-canada-manufacturing-site-for-ev-production\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Ford to invest $1.3B to overhaul Canada manufacturing site for EV production\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[457],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-construction-dive","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}