4, Highlander, GR Corolla, and Crown      •    2024-2025 Lexus TX, LS, Toyota Tacoma, and Grand Highlander      •    2025 Lexus RX, Toyota Crown Signia, Camry, RAV 4 Plug-in Hybrid (PHEV), and 4 Runner  The 29 models were manufactured globally over time at assembly plants in Japan, Kentucky, Indiana, Ontario, Baja California, and Guanajuato . Toyota will notify customers by mid-November 2025. Dealers will update the instrument pa...

News  Updated at: 2025/09/20

Toyota reportedly plans two electric SUVs for Kentucky plant Toyota Motor Corp. plans to build two battery-powered SUVs at its Georgetown, Kentucky, plant as it ends production the Lexus ES model at the site, according to a person familiar with the matter. On September 9, Nikkei Asia reported Toyota would consolidate production of Lexus brand cars in the U.S. to a single location. According to a new Nikkei report, the two new EVs to be built at G...

News  Updated at: 2025/09/11

e Trump administration and resultant pressure of cost increases. A Nikkei Asia report on September 9 said the move is aimed at strengthening U.S. production of hybrid vehicles while shifting some production of high-end Lexus cars to Japan. While Toyota currently makes Lexus ES sedans in Georgetown, Kentucky, and Lexus TX utility vehicles in Princeton, Indiana, it will discontinue production of the Lexus ES after meeting current orders, and export...

News  Updated at: 2025/09/10

rolytes from a North American electric vehicle (EV) secondary battery manufacturer. Details, including the customer’s name, vehicle models, and contract size, are unpublicized due to a confidentiality agreement. Enchem has already been supplying electrolytes to the same manufacturer’s plants in Kentucky and Georgia, the U.S., for pouch-type NCM (nickel-cobalt-manganese) batteries. As of 2024, Enchem has over 50% of the shares in the electroly...

News  Updated at: 2025/09/03

Ford BlueOval SK Battery Park officially seeking to sell excess capacity Production began on August 19 at the BlueOval SK Battery Park site in Kentucky, a joint-venture between Ford and SK On, with the first battery rolling off the line destined for a Ford F-150 Lightning. BlueOval SK in Kentucky had already scaled back its output capacity plans amid a slowdown in EV demand. BlueOval SK Battery Park was originally slated to employ 2,500 workers a...

News  Updated at: 2025/08/30

tional markets that could be fulfilled out of Oakville. This includes the Middle East, Australia, South America. From a market demand standpoint, we feel really good about it,” Kumar added. The Ford Super Duty will be produced at the Oakville Assembly plant in Canada starting in 2026, joining the Kentucky Truck plant and the Ohio Assembly plant. This addition is expected to result in an output of up to 100,000 units annually. For this to happen...

News  Updated at: 2025/08/28

BlueOval SK begins battery production at Glendale plant BlueOval SK announced that it began battery production at its first plant in Glendale, Kentucky on August 19, 2025. The Kentucky 1 battery facility will produce batteries for the Ford F-150 Lightning and the extended range Ford E-Transit. BlueOval SK was established in July 2022 as a joint venture between Ford and SK On. The two companies invested USD 11.4 billion in the development of two b...

News  Updated at: 2025/08/21

Ford unveils Universal EV Platform; mid-size pickup will be platform’s first model At an event hosted at Ford’s Louisville Assembly Plant in Kentucky on August 11, 2025, Ford introduced the new Ford Universal EV Platform. The platform was developed by a skunkworks team in California and will enable Ford to provide a family of affordable, electric, software-defined vehicles. The first model using the Ford Universal EV Platform will be a mid-si...

News  Updated at: 2025/08/12

Ford Universal EV Production System reduces complexity and speeds assembly of new platform On August 11, 2025, Ford Motor Co. announced the new Ford Universal EV Production System for the assembly of its new Ford Universal EV Platform. Ford aims to initially implement the new production system at the Louisville Assembly Plant in Kentucky. Instead of a traditional assembly line, the Ford Universal EV Production System features an assembly tree wit...

News  Updated at: 2025/08/12

Ford to invest USD 2 billion to upgrade Louisville Assembly Plant On August 11, 2025, Ford Motor Co. announced that it would invest approximately USD 2 billion at the Louisville Assembly Plant in Kentucky to support the creation of a mid-size electric pickup truck based on the new Ford Universal EV Platform. The investment will be used to implement the Ford Universal EV Production System at the plant, which contrasts with a traditional assembly l...

News  Updated at: 2025/08/12

Ford to reveal new EV, platform on August 11, CEO Farley says On July 30 during the investors call following release of its Q2 report, Ford CEO Jim Farley announced a new EV strategy and the coming reveal of a new electric vehicle and EV platform on August 11 at its Louisville Assembly Plant in Kentucky. During 2023 negotiations with the UAW, Ford promised to invest USD 1.2 billion into Louisville Assembly and an "all-new EV product" following th...

News  Updated at: 2025/08/01

Sumitomo Electric Wiring Systems invests USD 17 million to expand in Kentucky On July 9, Sumitomo Electric Wiring Systems (SEWS) announced a USD 17 million expansion of its Simpson County facility that will create 76 new full-time jobs. The expansion will allow the company to increase its product lines for automotive electric wiring harnesses and components. SEWS will add new injection-molding machines, along with automated assembly equipment to ...

News  Updated at: 2025/07/11

actures the BMW Z4, received the Platinum Plant Quality Award for 20 PP100 defects. Gold Plant Quality Awards for North/South America, in a tie, went to Toyota Motor Corporation’s Cambridge South plant in Ontario, Canada, which produces the Lexus RX, and Toyota Motor Corporation’s Georgetown 3, Kentucky, plant, which produces the Lexus ES. The Gold Plant Quality Award for the Asia Pacific region goes to Toyota Motor Corporation’s Tahara Lex...

News  Updated at: 2025/06/28

Ford Edge production ended in May 2024. Ford initially planned to build three-row EVs at the site, but changed that plan in July 2024. F-Series Super Duty pickups are in high demand, Goodman said, and the company is not able to fulfill demand either in Canada or U.S. with its current two plants in Kentucky and Ohio. Ford planned the Oakville plant to have capacity to build 100,000 Super Duty pickups annually when it reopens in 2026, though tarif...

News  Updated at: 2025/06/14

Toyota on track for its new U.S.-made EVs, battery production Toyota is staying on track with plans for EV production in the U.S. amid Trump trade tariffs and loss of EV incentives.  Production of two U.S.-made all-electric large crossover models is slated to begin in 2026, in Georgetown, Kentucky and Princeton, Indiana, though the names and other details have not been released. Company executives say they expect slow but steady growth in U.S. E...

News  Updated at: 2025/05/30

Ford may share BlueOval SK EV Battery Park production with Nissan Ford and SK On’s joint-venture BlueOval SK Battery Park site in Kentucky was originally planned to have two operational plants on its large campus, which would employ 5,000 people. However, with slower demand for EVs, the two companies had chosen to only utilize one of those plants and hire 2,500 workers in the interim, with production currently scheduled to begin soon.  Recent ...

News  Updated at: 2025/05/22

Young and higher-income shoppers both show the most interest but only 17% of consumers in the 25-49 age range have an annual income of over USD 100,000, a key financial demographic for EV manufacturers.•    Midwest states are least enthusiastic about EVs, with only 18% of those in Wisconsin and Kentucky, 17% in Minnesota and 16% of those in Ohio being “very likely” to consider purchasing an EV, affected by concerns over cold weather perfo...

News  Updated at: 2025/05/16

Ford launches 2025 Expedition at Kentucky Truck Plant after USD 500 million investment On April 30, Ford announced the official launch and first shipments of its revised 2025 Ford Expedition from the Kentucky Truck Plant in Louisville, Kentucky, which also assembles the 2025 Lincoln Navigator and F-Series Super Duty trucks. The refreshed three-row SUV that can seat up to eight people has received a restyled front end, with new headlights and tail...

News  Updated at: 2025/05/03

rcialized 1MW system to meet the demand for 1MW or more, with Rehlko developing the overall system and Toyota supplying fuel cell technology. Toyota maintains an engineering, product planning and business operations at its NA H2HQ headquarters in California and fuel cell kit assembly in Georgetown, Kentucky. (Toyota press release on April 29, 2025)...

News  Updated at: 2025/05/02

ed vigorous tests with fuel cells in temperatures lower than -20° Fahrenheit in Canada to nearly 150° in Death Valley. Globally, Toyota has sold more than 2,700 commercial fuel cell units to more than 100 customers. Toyota has prepared to assemble fuel cell module kits domestically in Georgetown, Kentucky. (Toyota release on April 28, 2025)...

News  Updated at: 2025/04/29