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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