{"id":26804,"date":"2026-05-22T22:45:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T22:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/26804\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T22:45:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T22:45:11","slug":"ford-officially-takes-ownership-of-big-glendale-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/26804\/","title":{"rendered":"Ford officially takes ownership of big Glendale plant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tFord has officially taken full ownership and operational control of the BlueOval SK plant in Glendale. The plant was initially built as part of a partnership between SK On and Ford to build electric vehicle batteries.Ford and SK announced last year it was dissolving the partnership and Ford would be repurposing the &#8220;gigafactory&#8221; to build energy storage systems.This week, the company finalized the dissolution, which means Ford can start converting the plant.The site will now be known as Ford Energy Systems.It is expected to start producing battery energy storage systems in late 2027.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tGLENDALE, Ky. \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Ford has officially taken full ownership and operational control of the BlueOval SK plant in Glendale. <\/p>\n<p>The plant was initially built as part of a partnership between SK On and Ford to build electric vehicle batteries.<\/p>\n<p>Ford and SK announced last year it was dissolving the partnership and Ford would be repurposing the &#8220;gigafactory&#8221; to build energy storage systems.<\/p>\n<p>This week, the company finalized the dissolution, which means Ford can start converting the plant.<\/p>\n<p>The site will now be known as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fordenergy.com\/newsroom\/kentucky-gigafactory\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ford Energy Systems<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It is expected to start producing battery energy storage systems in late 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ford has officially taken full ownership and operational control of the BlueOval SK plant in Glendale. The plant&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26805,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[17906,17907,3802,17909,17910,5508,12552,3597,17911,17908,17905,15031,4694,241,240,4302,12527],"class_list":["post-26804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sk","tag-big-glendale-plant","tag-blueoval-sk-plant","tag-company","tag-deal","tag-dissolution","tag-electric-vehicle-battery","tag-energy-storage-system","tag-ford","tag-ford-energy-systems","tag-last-year","tag-ownership","tag-part","tag-partnership","tag-sk","tag-sk-group","tag-sk-on","tag-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}