{"id":160937,"date":"2023-03-24T12:25:07","date_gmt":"2023-03-24T17:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/ford-to-build-next-gen-ev-truck-at-5-6b-factory-in-2025"},"modified":"2023-03-24T12:25:07","modified_gmt":"2023-03-24T17:25:07","slug":"ford-to-build-next-gen-ev-truck-at-5-6b-factory-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/ford-to-build-next-gen-ev-truck-at-5-6b-factory-in-2025","title":{"rendered":"Ford to build next-gen EV truck at $5.6B factory in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ford-to-build-next-gen-ev-truck-at-5-6b-factory-in-2025.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ford said Friday that its $5.6 billion BlueOval City complex outside of Memphis, Tennessee will include a truck plant capable of producing 500,000 electric vehicles a year.<\/p>\n<p>The first vehicle to come off the line will be a next-gen electric truck, code named Project T3, in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Construction at BlueOval City, the epicenter for its future EV and battery cell manufacturing and a key component toward its goal to sell 2 million EVs annually by late 2026, <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2022\/09\/23\/ford-breaks-ground-battery-ev-blueoval-city-tennessee\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">began last fall<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ford said Friday that its $5.6 billion BlueOval City complex outside of Memphis, Tennessee will include a truck plant capable of producing 500,000 electric vehicles a year. The first vehicle to come off the line will be a next-gen electric truck, code named Project T3, in 2025. Construction at BlueOval City, the epicenter for its [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}