Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear.   I’m Fred Fishkin.     Ford calls it BlueOval City…a sprawling complex in West Tennessee…that will build the automaker’s next generation truck, code named T3…and also house battery manufacturing.  The company says it will provide six thousand jobs and job training as well.  Electric Vehicle Plant Manager Kel Kearns…

“Our workforce development team has been working in the local community for more than a year now, understanding where the pipeline is, where the people are coming from, which institutions and working with government.   So there’s a Tennessee College of Applied Technology being built on site.”

Ford’s CEO has teased, by the way, that the next gen truck to be built there will have capabilities never before seen.   Stay tuned.

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