According to new 2022 data from S&P Global Mobility, Ford Motor Company has cemented its position as the No. 1 automaker in terms of vehicles assembled, auto workers employed per hour in the United States, and vehicles exported from the United States to other countries.
Building on its multi-year leadership in investment and construction in the United States, Ford has already committed plans to add more than 18,000 new manufacturing jobs in the United States over the next three years to produce gasoline and electric vehicles. .
In 2022, Ford exported 260,000 US-assembled vehicles, including F-150s, Explorers and Mustangs, to other countries, 65,000 more than the next closest competitor. Approximately 1 in 7 vehicles Ford assembles in the US is now exported to other markets.
New jobs recently announced in the US include:
Nearly 2,000 at three Michigan assembly plants: to produce the F-150 Lightning at the Rouge Electric Vehicle Center in Dearborn, the all-new Ranger pickup at the Wayne Michigan Assembly Plant, and the all-new Mustang at the Wayne Assembly Plant of Flat Rock, plus a new Ford Customer Service Division packaging facility in Monroe
Approximately 1,800 union jobs at Avon Lake Ohio Assembly Plant to assemble all-new EV commercial vehicle starting mid-decade
6000 at Blue Oval City in West Tennessee to build Ford’s second-generation electric truck and to build EV batteries with partner SK On
5,000 with partner SK On at BlueOval SK Battery Park in Glendale, Kentucky for future Ford and Lincoln EV batteries
2,500, to start, through a wholly owned subsidiary at BlueOval Battery Park Michigan in Marshall, Michigan, for the production of lithium iron phosphate EV batteries
In addition, a new third shift began last week at the Kansas City assembly plant to ramp up production of the Transit, America’s best-selling commercial van, and the E-Transit electric van.
Ford previously said the third shift would create 1,100 union jobs.
