Feds announce $9.2 billion loan for Ford-SK battery joint venture
The conditional loan is the largest in the agency's history and the single largest federal investment in an automaker since the Great Recession.
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The conditional loan is the largest in the agency's history and the single largest federal investment in an automaker since the Great Recession.
The U.S. Department of Energy intends to provide a loan of up to $9.2 billion to a collaborative effort between Ford Motor and SK On
The U.S. Energy Department plans to lend up to $9.2 billion to Ford and South Korea's SK On to help build three battery plants in Tennessee and Kentucky.
Many Republicans in Congress have criticized the Biden administration's efforts to boost EV and battery production. Last year, the department awarded a joint venture of General Motors and LG Energy Solution $2.5 billion to help finance construction of new lithium-ion battery cell manufacturing facilities.
A Ford joint venture to build three new electric vehicle battery plants is set to receive up to $9.2 billion in US federal loans under a program backed by President Joe Biden, officials announced Thursday.