Ford to build electric vehicle at Ohio Assembly Plant in Lorain County, invest $1.5 billion in plant

AVON LAKE, Ohio — Ford on Thursday introduced plans to construct an all-electric business car on the Ohio Meeting Plant, a transfer the corporate mentioned would create 1,800 union jobs and include a $1.5 billion funding.

Ford mentioned Ohio offered the corporate with $200 million in incentives to make the funding. Ford additionally launched plans that confirmed the Lorain County plant might be expanded.

Kumar Galhotra, president of Ford Blue, mentioned the brand new car to debut in “mid-decade” might be focused at skilled prospects and be all-electric, however he didn’t launch many different particulars throughout an early-morning convention name.

Firm executives have a press convention deliberate for 10:30 a.m. on the plant. (This story might be up to date.)

The brand new automobiles are a part of a $3.7 billion funding that Ford introduced. The corporate mentioned it is going to add 6,200 union jobs in Ohio, Michigan and Missouri that might be represented by the United Auto Staff.

Ford’s Ohio Meeting Plant covers 400 acres and sits on the border of Avon Lake, Sheffield and Sheffield Lake. The plant at the moment assembles bigger automobiles used extra by professionals, just like the F-650 and F-750 vans, F-350, F-450 and F-550 tremendous responsibility chassis cabs and the E-series cutaways and stripped chassis.

The corporate may also make investments $100 million elsewhere in Ohio between the Lima Engine and Sharonville Transmission crops, creating 90 jobs, in accordance with Ford.