{"id":37291,"date":"2023-11-26T09:50:59","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T09:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/ford-scaling-back-on-battery-plant-in-michigan"},"modified":"2023-11-26T10:03:16","modified_gmt":"2023-11-26T10:03:16","slug":"ford-scaling-back-on-battery-plant-in-michigan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/ford-scaling-back-on-battery-plant-in-michigan","title":{"rendered":"Ford scaling back on battery plant in Michigan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Mauritius. <\/strong><\/span>US-based automaker Ford announced Tuesday that it is scaling back on its battery plant project in the state of Michigan. \u201cWhile we remain bullish on our long-term strategy for electric vehicles, we are re-timing and resizing some investments.<\/p>\n

As stated previously, we have been evaluating BlueOval Battery Park Michigan in Marshall,\u201d it said in a statement. The company said it is trying to balance investment, growth and profitability and added the facility is now planned to create more than 1,700 jobs to produce a planned capacity of approximately 20 gigawatt-hours (GWh) \u2014 43% less than before.<\/p>\n

Ford\u2019s initial plan for the plant was for 35 GWh to provide 2,500 jobs. The company announced in February that it plans to build a $3.5 billion facility in Michigan to make cheaper lithium iron phosphate batteries for electric vehicles (EVs) instead of nickel manganese cobalt that is currently used in EVs. BlueOval Battery Park Michigan is expected to start producing battery cells in 2026.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Mauritius. US-based automaker Ford announced Tuesday that it is scaling back on its battery plant project in the state of Michigan. \u201cWhile we remain bullish on our long-term strategy for electric vehicles, we are re-timing and resizing some investments. As stated previously, we have been evaluating BlueOval Battery Park Michigan in Marshall,\u201d it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":37289,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,9],"tags":[233,245,2603,241],"class_list":["post-37291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-miscellaneous","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-mauritius","tag-ford","tag-mauritius"],"yoast_head":"\nFord scaling back on battery plant in Michigan - Mauritius<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"US-based automaker Ford announced Tuesday that it is scaling back on its battery plant project in the state of Michigan. ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/ford-scaling-back-on-battery-plant-in-michigan\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ford scaling back on battery plant in Michigan\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"US-based automaker Ford announced Tuesday that it is scaling back on its battery plant project in the state of Michigan. ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/ford-scaling-back-on-battery-plant-in-michigan\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Mauritius\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-11-26T09:50:59+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-11-26T10:03:16+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/sites\/61\/2023\/11\/sm_1700980248.21946.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"864\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"486\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/ford-scaling-back-on-battery-plant-in-michigan#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/ford-scaling-back-on-battery-plant-in-michigan\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Ford scaling back on battery plant in Michigan\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-11-26T09:50:59+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-11-26T10:03:16+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/ford-scaling-back-on-battery-plant-in-michigan\"},\"wordCount\":174,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/ford-scaling-back-on-battery-plant-in-michigan#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/sites\/61\/2023\/11\/sm_1700980248.21946.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Mauritius\",\"Ford\",\"Mauritius\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"miscellaneous\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/ford-scaling-back-on-battery-plant-in-michigan#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/ford-scaling-back-on-battery-plant-in-michigan\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/ford-scaling-back-on-battery-plant-in-michigan\",\"name\":\"Ford scaling back on battery plant in Michigan - 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