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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Bruce Schreiner

Ford to invest nearly $2 billion in Kentucky assembly plant to produce electric vehicles

Ford-Electric Vehicles - (Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

Ford Motor Co. will invest nearly $2 billion retooling a Kentucky factory to produce electric vehicles that it says will be more affordable, more profitable to build, and will outcompete rival models.

The automaker’s top executive unveiled the new EV strategy Monday at Ford’s Louisville Assembly Plant which, after producing gas-powered vehicles for 70 years, will be converted to manufacture electric vehicles.

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