Ford (F) to invest $1.3B to retool Ontario factory for EVs starting next year
FREE Breaking News Alerts from StreetInsider.com!
StreetInsider.com Top Tickers, 6/12/2026
- S&P 500, Dow rise on Mideast deal hopes, SpaceX's historic debut
- SpaceX prices historic IPO at $135/share in largest ever new listing
- 'Ocean of opportunity': Wolfe initiates SpaceX at Buy ahead of historic IPO
- UBS cuts gold price forecasts on delayed Fed easing outlook
- Oil nears two-month lows on reports of imminent US-Iran peace deal
- NASDAQ adds five companies to NASDAQ-100 index in quarterly rebalance
- Adobe CFO Dan Durn to depart company in June 2026
- Oppenheimer Starts SpaceX (SPCX) at Outperform, PT $190, 'space infrastructure appears structurally advantaged'
- Pentagon reportedly locked down, hazmat teams responding
- BofA lifts targets on AMD and ARM, raises CPU TAM to $170bn
Brazilian Government offer fresh perks for a BYD plant as Ford talks stall
April 13, 2023 1:41 PM EDTIn February, the Brazilian government opened negotiations with electric automaker BYD in the hopes of reopening a factory that belonged to Ford (NYSE: F) in Camacari. Ford ended activities at the Camacari industrial complex in January 2021 following 20 years of operations.
However, as talks have stalled, a story from Reuters, citing unnamed sources, reports Thursday that... More
Ford will retool Ontario factory to build EVs starting next year
April 11, 2023 11:09 AM EDTBy Joseph White
DETROIT (Reuters) - Ford Motor Co said Tuesday that next year it will start retooling its sport utility vehicle assembly plant in Oakville, Ontario to produce electric vehicles, fulfilling a promise made to Canada's Unifor union during contract bargaining in 2020.
Ford plans to begin overhauling the Oakville complex in the second quarter of 2024, idling most of the factory's production workers until the new EV assembly system starts up in late 2024, company officials said Tuesday during a conference call.
... More