Ford plans to repurpose its Kentucky factory manufacturing capacity to launch a battery storage business for data centers, amid its shift from making large EVs
now it's pivoting to hybrids and energy storage X: Erik Grossman / @erikgrossman : Cool to share what I've been working on. Ford is getting into energy storage in a big way Lucas Aulbach / @lucasaulbach : Big news via @oliviamevans_ and @byconnorgiffin: 1,000+ workers at the Ford site in Glendale will be laid off as the company pivots the project from EV battery production to battery energy storage systems https://www.courier-journal.com/ ... Sawyer Merritt / @sawyermerritt : NEWS: Ford intends to convert a Kentucky electric vehicle battery plant so it can produce cells for energy storage to power the electric grid, as its EV sales growth has dropped. https://www.bloomberg.com/... Bluesky: Ketan Joshi / @ketanjoshi.co : The data centre boom is a black hole gravity well sucking resources away from the monetary, physical and human infrastructure of decarbonisation. If you care about ‘more tech’ this won't bother you. I care about climate outcomes, and this is really bad. — techcrunch.com/2025/12/15/f... [image] Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life : It's quite a sign of the times that Ford is pivoting away from EVs and will focus its battery tech on AI data centers instead. — There's a growing list from memory manufacturers to construction companies all pivoting from their primary focus areas to feed at the AI datacenter trough. Kirsten Korosec / @kirstenkorosec : Yet another pivot from Ford. — From @seanokane.bsky.social and me. — tl,dr: Large EVs out. Hybrids in! “Range extenders” in! — techcrunch.com/2025/12/15/f... And in the what-do-we-do-with-this-capacity category: a new energy storage business is born. techcrunch.com/2025/12/15/f... Sean O'Kane / @seanokane : Ford is also pivoting some of its battery factories and their now-unclaimed capacity to battery storage. Targeting 20GWh per year starting in 2027. — (Tesla currently deploys around 10GWh per quarter.) — techcrunch.com/2025/12/15/f... Forums: r/technews : Ford is starting a battery storage business to power data centers and the grid | TechCrunch