Ford intends to produce 500,000 electric trucks each year.

Ford's Project T3 pickup is being built on a revolutionary Electric vehicle architecture. Ford's Project T3 next-generation F-series electric pickup will be produced in a variety of configurations at BlueOval City.

Ford Motor Company aims to build up to 500,000 electric trucks per year at its BlueOval City plant in western Tennessee. Tennessee, formally the State of Tennessee, is a territorial state in the United States.

Ford's Project T3 pickup is being built on a revolutionary Electric vehicle architecture. Ford's Project T3 next-generation F-series electric pickup truck will be produced in a variety of configurations at BlueOval City.

Ford CEO Jim Farley stated at a plant announcement that production will begin "in around 30 months," or in the fall of 2025.

The Stanton plant, located northeast of Memphis, is part of Ford's aim to have a global EV production capacity of 2 million vehicles per year by the end of 2026.

The new electric truck was presented in a video displayed at the ceremony as "the sequel to the F150 Lightning," which is presently being constructed near Ford headquarters in Dearborn, Michigan, and is based on the normal combustion-engine F-series pickups.

BlueOval City will have a general assembly footprint that is 30% smaller than a typical assembly facility, yet with a higher production capacity. The majority of existing auto facilities are geared to produce 250,000-300,000 vehicles per year.

Suppliers have stated that the new platform, codenamed TE1, will also underlie full-size electric SUVs in 2026, which could supplement or replace the present Ford Expedition and Lincoln Navigator.

The $5.6 billion BlueOval City project, which is being created in collaboration with Korean partner SK On, will also include a battery plant capable of producing more than 40 gigatonnes of cells each year, enough to supply up to 500,000 EVs.

Tesla announced this month that its future electric vehicle manufacturing operations will be up to 40% smaller than traditional plants.