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Ford and SK On broke ground on the BlueOval SK Battery Park, where their joint venture – BlueOval SK – has invested $5.8 billion to produce advanced batteries for future Ford and Lincoln electric vehicles, set to begin production in 2025, creating 5,000 new jobs in Kentucky.
Construction is scheduled on two large battery manufacturing facilities capable of collectively producing more than 80 gigawatt hours annually.
Significant construction progress at the BlueOval SK Battery Park brings Ford closer to its target of producing an annual operating rate of 2 million electric vehicles worldwide by the end of 2026.
BlueOval SK Battery Park will train 5,000 new workers at the new Elizabethtown Community and Technical College (ECTC) BlueOval SK Training Center, located on the 1,500-acre BlueOval SK Battery Park site.
The ECTC BlueOval SK Training Center is the only co-branded learning facility within the Kentucky Community College System and represents a $25 million investment by the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
The curriculum within the 42,000 square-foot training facility will support battery knowledge, roles and skills. BlueOval SK will train employees in SK On’s proprietary technical, quality and manufacturing processes at the ECTC BlueOval SK Training Center’s virtual reality labs, industrial maintenance laboratory, work simulation lab and rooms- study ergonomics techniques.
Progress has been made on the 2.3-square-mile battery manufacturing campus. So far, crews have:
- 4.3 million cubic yards of earth were moved, enough to fill 200 American football stadiums
- 283,000 tons of stone were laid, equivalent to the weight of about 1,350 locomotives
- 66,000 cubic yards of concrete poured – enough to fill 356 backyard swimming pools
- 3,300 tons of rebar ties were installed to strengthen the concrete, equivalent to the weight of more than 470 elephants
- Installed 1,300 deep foundations, equivalent to the height of nearly 60 Empire State Buildings stacked end to end
- 7,900 tons of structural steel were built, equivalent to the weight of nearly 400 fire trucks
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