Ford’s Oakville campus already includes three body shops, one paint building and one assembly building. With the expansion, it will now include a battery assembly facility relying on cells and arrays produced at its joint venture battery park in Kentucky, according to the release. Oakville workers will assemble the battery packs, which will be installed in EVs assembled on-site.
The company’s plans in Ontario are part of the automaker’s broader effort to bring more of its EV production in-house.
The strategy is led by the company’s EV manufacturing hub in Tennessee, which will house a battery factory, assembly plant and component suppliers.