https://www.marketscreener.com/news/ford-sk-on-seek-buyers-for-surplus-battery-supplies-from-kentucky-venture-ce7c51ddda80f622
Please, somebody buy some of these batteries so I can have a job at BOSK KY.
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I say BF/JF/DF get a rating "underachieve" as senior management. Should be terminated ASAP. When are the Banks and Press going to finally say something??? How long does this game continue? Too bad nobody has a pair to question this so called leadership team. Ask really hard questions. I am sorry but to go all in on EVs like this when the current market tells you thy don't want it is beyond me. Toyota is working on real time product and technology especially in batteries. Too bad that family is not running Ford.
Lisa Drake informed the team that we are on target and going forward with EV plans 100%.
Any business strategy that depends on a government subsidy isn't a strategy at all....it's a subsidy...lol
Farley’s folly
EV tax credits expire and now Ford will have all this new massive battery capacity and no cars to install them in. Problem with Ford is they took a bet on BEVs because the government cheese bail was guaranteed.
Look out American white collar workers as the LCC train is going to pick up steam.
You're right it's going to be great..
Oh excuse me my kids are getting out of the Cobalt mines I need to go now
@ac "Just keep moving forward"
Not only surplus batteries from KY, if the Marshall plant actually gets finished all its production will be surplus. Batteries are going to get real cheap!
@a5 Big scary
https://spectrumnews1.com/ky/louisville/news/2025/05/10/investors-demand-answers-from-ford-blueoval-sk-on-practices
https://www.kentucky.com/news/business/article310211245.html
https://tennesseelookout.com/2025/05/07/investor-letter-urges-ford-blue-oval-sk-to-address-reported-union-busting-engagement-concerns/
You don't want to work there. Ford runs propaganda and purposely spreads cynicism to establish control amongst workers so they don't rise up together and protect each other.
Look at this campaign warfare. It's horrible: https://www.myblueovalsk.com/
"They're beating the workers down, day in and day out, day in and day out," Smith said.
"The BlueOval SK Battery Park has faced a slew of worker complaints filed to Kentucky Occupational Safety and Health officials, noting issues of mold exposure, broken bones and bat infestations, a Courier Journal investigation revealed in May. "
Additional records have shown employees felt unsafe and refused to handle toxic chemicals saying, "You can fire us if you want to" in a meeting, The Courier Journal previously reported.
"Management hired consultants and “union-avoidance” lawyers, is running anti-union ads, and faces multiple allegations of unfair labor practices, including firing workers for union sympathies, threatening to close the plant if workers support unionization, and holding captive audience meetings."
To be fair this sort of evil goes on in Michigan at Ford too:L
https://www.michigancapitolconfidential.com/news/report-whitmers-allies-target-opponents-of-marshall-battery-plant
:A Battle Creek man, Rick Sadler, told Freep reporter Dave Boucher that he received a mailing that had a picture of him and his wife participating in a protest. Their faces were crossed out in red marker."
“There are too many connections to Democratic insiders to ignore in this case but the degrees of separation campaign finance law allows obscures the true picture,” Pigeon told Boucher.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/nonprofit-names-ev-battery-plant-180017947.html
“At the end of the day, the reported use of political consultants to run a smear campaign against skeptical local residents that really set Michigan’s subsidies for Ford’s Marshall battery plant apart from all the other terrible corporate welfare deals across the country,” Mozena said.
https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2023/09/14/whitmer-team-michigan-democrats-tied-to-marshall-money-in-ford-fight/70785601007/
A political organization used a portion of a $100,000 “dark money” contribution to pay for flyers, a video and other activities that encouraged Marshall residents to oppose a petition drive that could cripple the project, records show. The same organization used more of that money to hire the lawyers with Whitmer ties, shifting some of their strategy from a public relations battle to a legal fight.
Why would you ever get in bed with powers that you cannot defend yourself against This is not worth it You have no voice or say in the matter.. you may think you do. There are greater powers at play. No honor