Designed with a sustainable, holistic and inclusive approach, this project—which includes Ford’s corporate office headquarters and the largest Automotive Engineering Center in Mexico—spans 19 hectares of land, much of which is a protected ecological zone.
Toyota's under-construction battery plant in North Carolina is now an almost $6B project with new funds, while Ford BlueOval plants in Tennessee and Kentucky are boosted by a $9.2-billion U.S. Energy Dept. conditional loan, its largest ever single investment.
Electric Mustangs are set to use factory's first in the U.S. lithium iron phosphate batteries, which are more durable with less high-cost materials, automaker says, despite lawmaker concerns about the China link.