{"id":33928,"date":"2022-06-02T18:51:55","date_gmt":"2022-06-02T18:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/ford-announces-3-7-billion-investment-to-make-electric-vehicles-trucks-new-mustang\/"},"modified":"2022-06-02T18:51:55","modified_gmt":"2022-06-02T18:51:55","slug":"ford-announces-3-7-billion-investment-to-make-electric-vehicles-trucks-new-mustang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/ford-announces-3-7-billion-investment-to-make-electric-vehicles-trucks-new-mustang\/","title":{"rendered":"Ford announces $ 3.7 billion investment to make electric vehicles, trucks, new Mustang"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-text\">\n<div class=\"l-container\">\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph\" data-paragraph-id=\"paragraph_446C69D7-1877-F475-6B4F-24BC63CC622A\">The Michigan-based automaker will invest $ 2 billion in its home state, an investment that will create 2,000 new jobs, Ford said in an announcement.  The funds will be used to increase production of the F-150 Lightning electric plckup, built at a factory near Ford&#8217;s Dearborn headquarters, to 150,000 trucks per year.<strong> <\/strong>Ford has approximately 200,000 pre-orders for the truck already, the company has said, and the first examples were delivered to customers last week<strong>.<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>The money will also go into the production of a new, redesigned Ford Ranger mid-sized pickup at a Wayne, Michigan, plant as well as a new Ford Mustang in Flat Rock, Michigan<strong>, <\/strong>though the company has not yet detailed plans on whether the next Mustang will have an electric version.  An additional $ 35 million will go to create a new customer service and packaging center that will ship auto parts directly to customers.<\/p>\n<div class=\"el__embedded el__embedded--standard\">\n<div class=\"el__storyelement--standard el__article--embed\">\n<div class=\"el__article--teaseimage\"><noscript><img alt=\"The electric Ford F-150 Lightning is the best version of America &#038; # 39; s best-selling truck\" class=\"media__image\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cdn.cnn.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/220510160205-01-ford-f-150-lightning-review-large-169.jpg?ssl=1\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><\/noscript><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Ford will spend $ 1.5 billion at its Ohio assembly plant to build a &#8220;new electric commercial vehicle&#8221; that will be introduced around 2025. The company will also be investing around $ 100 million in an engine plant and a transmission factory in the state.<\/p>\n<p>In Missouri, Ford is spending $ 95 million to add an additional factory shift to produce gas-powered Transit commercial vans and electric E-Transit vans. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__read-all\">\n<p>The new investments are expected to create 6,200 unionized manufacturing jobs, according to Ford.  Additionally, Ford will spend another $ 1 billion over the next five years to improve the workplace environment at its factories, the automaker said, including better lighting and the installation of EV chargers in parking lots.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph\" data-paragraph-id=\"paragraph_203C207D-95D0-DC42-E76D-24D20C6EAC43\">The investments are in addition to the $ 11.4 billion Ford announced in September to build new battery manufacturing facilities in Tennessee and Kentucky.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>    .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Michigan-based automaker will invest $ 2 billion in its home state, an investment that will create 2,000 new jobs, Ford said in an announcement. The funds will be used to increase production of the F-150 Lightning electric plckup, built at a factory near Ford&#8217;s Dearborn headquarters, to 150,000 trucks per year. Ford has approximately &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/ford-announces-3-7-billion-investment-to-make-electric-vehicles-trucks-new-mustang\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ford announces $ 3.7 billion investment to make electric vehicles, trucks, new Mustang<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,16339,16340,8130],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.cnn.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/220426122111-03-ford-f-150-lightning-trucks-production-rouge-electric-vehicle-center-0426-super-tease.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33928"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}