Saturday, February 9, 2019

Ford: Keeping Chicago Great -- Making America Great Again -- February 9, 2019

The story is everywhere; this is one link, the data points:
  • Ford -- the US automotive company
  • $1 billion
  • Chicago -- southeast side
  • expansion of two assembly and stamping plants
  • expansion comes at Europe's expense where Ford will cut jobs and workforce
  • project will begin next month (March, 2019)
  • project expected to be complete by spring (isn't March spring in the Midwest?)
  • 500 new full-time jobs (500 more jobs than GE will bring to France)
  • two factories: three new SUVs
    • and, that folks, is the big story: three new SUVs
    • one will be a hybrid which I no longer consider an EV
      • the new Ford Explorer ST
      • the Lincoln Aviator
      • the Explorer Hybrid
  • EV sales are tracked here: the Ford Explorer Hybrid did not make the list
  • it looks like all that carbuzz excitement was delayed
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Powerline's Week in Pictures

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