<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n\u201cBlueOval City is the blueprint for Ford\u2019s electric future around the world,\u201d said Bill Ford, Ford\u2019s executive chair. \u201cWe will build revolutionary electric vehicles at an advanced manufacturing site that works in harmony with the planet, aligning business growth and innovation with environmental progress.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In addition to the smaller footprint for the manufacturing space, the assembly plant will use carbon-free electricity from the day it opens. For the first time in 120 years, Ford also is using recovered energy from the site\u2019s utility infrastructure and geothermal system to provide carbon-free heat for the assembly plant \u2014 saving about 300 million cubic feet of natural gas typically needed each year to heat similarly sized vehicle assembly plants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Officials claim the site will save 50 million gallons of water annually by reducing evaporation from the site\u2019s cooling towers. In fact, it will never use any sort of freshwater for its assembly process and will be a zero-landfill-waste plant when it opens. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ford also intends to develop a holistic stormwater management system separate from the water table to help protect the local environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ford Motor Co.\u2019s push to its electric future continued Friday, after it revealed plans to build an all-new, all-electric pickup at its BlueOval City site starting in 2025. The company plans to build 500,000 of the new pickups, dubbed Project T3, annually. Get the details at TheDetroitBureau.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4389,"featured_media":240587,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8,5,10,1164,3185,2648,1347,9],"tags":[1981,364,10275,10276,10277],"make":[],"post-state":[],"category_old":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240582"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4389"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240582"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240594,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240582\/revisions\/240594"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240582"},{"taxonomy":"make","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/make?post=240582"},{"taxonomy":"post-state","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post-state?post=240582"},{"taxonomy":"category_old","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/category_old?post=240582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}