There are 65 article(s) tagged Ford Motor Co.:
About 3,000 white-collar workers at Ford Motor Co. will lose their jobs as the company cuts costs to help make the long transition from internal combustion vehicles to those powered by batteries.
Ford has been working with the state, local institutions and community organizations to help create a pipeline of workers for the thousands of jobs that will be needed by 2025.
More than 70 years after founding its charitable arm, Ford Motor Co. has invested more than $2.2 billion in initiatives that provide basic needs and access to essential services, offer tools to build new skillsets and open pathways to employment.
Interior construction isn’t expected to begin until April 2023, with peak construction in the months that follow.
The venture between Ford and SK Battery America Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of SK On, will build and operate the battery plant at BlueOval City at the Megasite of West Tennessee as well as two battery plants in Kentucky.
Hundreds of Tennessee residents attended a meeting with Ford Motor Co. execs Tuesday night at a Brownsville high school to learn more about BlueOval City.
This year’s show is the first since the start of the pandemic and the first since Ford announced its $5.6 billion manufacturing campus in West Tennessee.
Ford, UT reveal agreement to restore stream waters flowing through Lone Oaks Farm, located about 70 miles from Memphis.
Ford Motor Co. plans to bring a 10,000-square-foot display that will include updates on its project at the Megasite of West Tennessee, future Blue Oval City, as well an outdoor EV track.
The bill would require the Megasite Authority of West Tennessee to submit a report detailing the name and location of each business or third-party entity contracted to perform construction work at the site.
“It’s hard for me to believe that anyone has done more for Memphis than Fred Smith,” Bo Allen, First Horizon regional president for West Tennessee, Arkansas and North Mississippi, said.
Ford plans to reach carbon neutrality by 2050, and its operations in West Tennessee are at the frontier of that goal, according to its latest sustainability report.
The Detroit construction company had its first supplier outreach meeting in January in Memphis, followed by a similar meeting in March in Jackson, Tennessee, about 45 miles east of the Megasite.
General Services has two State Building Commission-approved capital projects, including the 36.5 miles of pipeline that will run from the northwest corner of the Megasite — where the wastewater treatment plant will be located — to the Mississippi River.
The bottom line is Mason’s elected leaders were right not to surrender the charter. They have a legitimate right to exist as an incorporated town.
“I would suspect that most of the companies that entered into the Russian market either had a contingency plan,” the Bartlett Chamber president said.
“They know that Ford will change our town,” said Diane Hooper, executive director of Sugar Creek. “But I think they’re very excited for future generations and what this is going to mean for our county.”
Ford now needs to secure an environmental permit before moving forward with site work at its planned $5.6 billion electric vehicle plant in West Tennessee.
We’re highlighting two series of stories published last week: The First Horizon acquisition and progress with Ford’s Blue Oval City.
Even after all these years and all the meetings I’ve attended, all the projects I’ve worked on, it still amazes me how fast an opportunity to bring us together can turn to sewage.
Demand for the F-150 Lightning will be crucial to Ford’s planned operations in West Tennessee.
“We’re looking for technical, we’re looking for operational, we’re looking for lean and professional behaviors when we think about that ideal worker of the future,” said Liliana Ramirez, Ford’s workforce development director.
Site work at Blue Oval City could begin as early as March 15, and local officials say Shelby County is poised to be an electric vehicle hub “if we dare to dream big enough.” Ford, ready to grow workforce, begins to recruit eighth-gradersRelated stories:
Ford will run EV business separately as Ford Blue
HTL’s Mark Herbison visits Fayette County to speak about Blue Oval City
“In many cases, this will be the first impression or experience our visitors will have when they’re coming to Memphis,” Townsend said, “and hopefully we’ll see many, many returns as a result of it.”
What’s the difference between “card check” and a secret-ballot vote? Perhaps the unionization of the mammoth Blue Oval City that Ford Motor Co. plans to build just east of Memphis.