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Ford Energy plans to deploy at least 20 GWh annually, with first customer deliveries planned for late 2027 (www.fromtheroad.ford.com)
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...Ford Energy is a wholly owned subsidiary of Ford Motor Company. We will provide United States-assembled battery energy storage systems (BESS) for utilities, data centers and large industrial and commercial customers in the United States...

Our flagship product – the Ford Energy DC block – is a standardized 20-foot containerized battery energy storage system designed around 512 Ah LFP prismatic cells. We offer two configurations: the FE-250 (two-hour system) and the FE-450 (a four-hour system). Both integrate advanced LFP prismatic battery technology, liquid-cooled thermal management and battery management system.

...We are repurposing existing U. S. battery manufacturing capacity in Glendale, Kentucky...

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[–] W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 10 hours ago

… and a charging station capable of refilling it on a timescale competitive with the ~5 minutes it takes to refill a tank of gas for several hundred miles range.

You could argue that about ANY EV yet they’re still selling even though the charge times aren’t on par with gas fill up times. ESPECIALLY with gas/diesel prices going up in the US.