(TNS) Ford Motor Co. is investing approximately $5 billion across its facilities and creating thousands of jobs to deliver a new pickup and produced an advanced type of car batteries, officials said Monday at the automaker’s Louisville Assembly Plant.

Some of the investment, nearly $2 billion, will go toward the automaker’s Louisville Assembly Plant.

The factory is to make a new midsize electric truck, a production that will secure 2,200 jobs. Ford officials said the Louisville factory will expand by 52,000 square feet and have some digital infrastructure upgrades.

The rest of the automaker’s investment is going into its BlueOval Battery Park in Michigan.

Joined by other Ford executives and Kentucky officials, CEO Jim Farley said its electric vehicle strategy will create or ensure 4,00

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