Ford Motor Company plans to build a $3.5 billion electric car battery plant regarding 160 kilometers west of Detroit that will employ regarding 2,500 people.
Plans to build the plant were revealed to the two at a meeting of the Michigan Strategic Fund, which approved a large tax incentive package for the project near Marshall..
The factory will be located on a site ready for industrial development near the intersection of Interstates 94 and 69.
It’s a “great project,” said Gabby Bruno, Ford’s director of economic development, noting that Michigan has been “competing with several states and countries” to secure the investment..
Ford will hold a press conference later in the day to announce its electric cars.
