福特汽车公司（Ford Motor Co.蓝色椭圆形城,它计划在田纳西州斯坦顿市附近的56亿美元综合体，包括电动汽车组件和电池厂。

发言人说，福特预计将有5,000至6,000名建筑工人参与该项目。

两家公司正在积极寻找分包商和供应商来从事该项目，福特在一份声明中说，他们“都致力于雇用多样化的劳动力来建造蓝色椭圆形城”。福特和沃尔布里奇计划在孟菲斯地区举办几项分包商活动，以概述该地点的建设机会。

福特说：“这些事件将有助于确保田纳西州和多样化的当地劳动力将成为为该国创造高级制造时代的一部分。”

这些公司还建立了一个网站，walbridgeblueoval.com,with contacts for subcontractors or suppliers interested in working on the project.

As ENR previously reported, Ford is partnering with South Korean battery maker SK Innovation on the development, with plans calling for a 3,600-acre campus that would produce batteries for electric F-Series pickup trucks to also be assembled on-site.

Ford also plans to have on-site water treatment, recycling and parts supplier facilities to boost its goal to make the assembly plant carbon neutral, and to send no waste to landfills, once it is operational, according to the company. The automaker aims for production to start in 2025.

沃尔布里奇（Walbridge）推迟到福特（Ford）寻求有关该项目的问题的答案，排名第43位新利18备用Enr的2021年前400名承包商与前一年19亿美元的收入列表,including 59 manufacturing project contracts. It has a long history of working with Ford, including on expansions of the automaker’s plants in Flat Rock and Dearborn, Mich., as well as in Hermosillo, Mexico, plus construction of other facilities such as a research and engineering center and a factory tour visitor center near Ford’s headquarters in Dearborn, Mich. In October 2021, Walbridge received a Ford award for “diversity and inclusion world excellence.”

10月，田纳西州立法者批准了一项9亿美元的激励计划，包括基础设施升级，这是制定该项目的努力的一部分。该州以前还致力于一项计划，估计在全州主要高速公路上投资约2000万美元。

Ford is not the only automaker focusing on EVs in the state. Volkswagen has been expanding its Chattanooga, Tenn., plant and plans to begin producing its electric ID.4 SUVs there this year.