There are 153 article(s) tagged BlueOval City:

• September 2021

  • Memphis Chamber launches Center for Economic Competitiveness

    The center’s new report found that Memphis is No.1 when compared to its peers in the area for diverse tech talent.

    By Rob Moore September 30, 2021

  • The long drive to making cars closer to Memphis

    Memphis and the surrounding region lost out when the state’s original auto corridor was established in Middle Tennessee almost 40 years ago. But the new Ford plant in Haywood County comes with lessons from that pursuit as well as doubts and the prospect of more change beyond the electric vehicles powered by batteries made at the megasite.

    By Bill Dries September 29, 2021

  • Governor, execs celebrate Megasite news

    “Blue Oval City will be the biggest auto manufacturing (site) in our 118-year history,” said Ford president and CEO Jim Farley. “It will also be the cleanest and most efficient. It will produce electric vehicles on a scale we couldn’t have even imagined 10 years ago.” 

    By Rob Moore September 28, 2021