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(NewsNation) — Ford Motor Co. announced Thursday it volition grow accumulation of its F-Series Super Duty pickups astatine an Ontario, Canada, works that was initially acceptable to beryllium converted into an all-electric conveyance hub.
The new plan, made to support up with lawsuit request for Super Duty trucks, includes a $3 cardinal concern to grow accumulation of the company's heavier-duty trucks. It includes $2.3 cardinal to instal assembly and integrated stamping cognition astatine the Oakville Assembly Complex, with the remainder utilized to summation accumulation astatine supporting facilities successful the U.S. and Canada.
Production astatine the Ontario works is acceptable to statesman successful 2026, with 100,000 units of the pickups expected to beryllium assembled.
Ford besides manufactures Super Duty trucks astatine plants successful Kentucky and Ohio, which are operating astatine afloat capacity. The institution said the plants collectively produced much than 200,000 Super Duty units successful the archetypal fractional of this year.
“Super Duty is simply a captious instrumentality for businesses and radical astir the satellite and, adjacent with our Kentucky Truck Plant and Ohio Assembly Plant moving level out, we can’t conscionable the demand. This determination benefits our customers and supercharges our Ford Pro commercialized business," Jim Farley, the company's CEO, said successful a quality release.
Ford attributed an 8% driblet successful income of its F-Series pickup, America's top-selling vehicle, during the archetypal fractional of the twelvemonth to factories' modulation to a caller mentation of the F-150, the Associated Press reported. Super Duty trucks accounted for astir 42% of Ford's full accumulation from January done June.
