{"id":259987,"date":"2024-12-17T09:52:07","date_gmt":"2024-12-17T08:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/?p=259987"},"modified":"2024-12-17T09:52:08","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T08:52:08","slug":"blueoval-sk-obtiene-un-prestamo-de-ee-uu-para-construir-plantas-de-baterias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/2024\/12\/17\/blueoval-sk-secures-us-loan-to-construct-battery-plants\/","title":{"rendered":"BlueOval SK obtiene un pr\u00e9stamo en EE.UU. para construir plantas de bater\u00edas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n

BlueOval SK<\/a> is a joint venture by US carmaker Ford and South Korean EV battery manufacturer SK Innovation. All three above-mentioned factories are already under construction – one in Tennessee<\/a> and two in Kentucky<\/a>. When construction kicked off in 2022, about $5.6 billion had been earmarked for BlueOval City in Tennessee alone. In Kentucky, both partners are reportedly investing a combined $5.8 billion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is important to note that the loan is for “up to three” battery manufacturing sites. Due to rising costs, Ford scaled back its investment target in electric mobility in October 2023<\/a>. That included postponing investments in the planned second battery factory on a new campus in Kentucky. However, the project was never scrapped; it could now pick up pace again. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The joint venture had already received a conditional loan commitment <\/a>from the DOE in the summer of 2023. At the time, it was for up to 9.2 billion dollars, while the undertaking will now be supported with up to $9.63 billion. The money comes from the DOE’s Loan Programs Office (LPO).\u00a0The DOE stresses that this is “the largest loan granted through DOE\u2019s Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing Program (ATVM) [and] will help ensure the United States can meet domestic demand and remain a global leader in the rapidly expanding EV industry.”<\/p>\n\n\n

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“Expanding domestic production of American-made batteries is critical to reducing America\u2019s reliance on adversarial foreign nations like China, meeting the Nation\u2019s domestic and international climate commitments, and achieving President Biden\u2019s goal to make half of all new vehicles sold in 2030 zero-emissions vehicles,” the government department state in its press release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the DOE, the three factories “would enable more than 120 gigawatt hours of US battery production annually,” and create more than 5,000 jobs in construction and some 7,500 jobs in operation. That is less than what was announced 18 months ago. In June 2023, there was still talk of 129 GWh and 7,500 jobs when production begins. That was initially scheduled for 2025, but the US carmaker has since pushed back the start of production<\/a> of its next electric pickup and electric SUV to 2026 and 2027, respectively.\u00a0Instead, it will focus on hybrids for the time being.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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BlueOval SK es una empresa conjunta del fabricante de autom\u00f3viles estadounidense Ford y el fabricante surcoreano de bater\u00edas para veh\u00edculos el\u00e9ctricos SK Innovation. Las tres f\u00e1bricas mencionadas ya est\u00e1n en construcci\u00f3n -.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":259989,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9927],"tags":[10230,13682,10914,23323,209,11814,12102,24208,5132,10583,609],"class_list":["post-259987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-battery-fuel-cell","tag-batteries","tag-battery-cells","tag-battery-production","tag-blueovalsk","tag-ford","tag-kentucky","tag-north-america","tag-sk-on","tag-tennessee","tag-u-s-department-of-energy","tag-usa"],"acf":{"post_article-format":{"value":"standard","label":"Standard"},"post_categories":[9927],"post_tags":[23323,609,10583,10230,10914,13682,209,24208,11814,5132,12102],"post_thumbnail":259989,"post_thumbnail_listing":false,"post_thumbnail-caption":"","post_teaser-text":"The US Department of Energy (DOE) has given the green light for a direct loan of up to $9.63 billion to BlueOval SK. The money will be used for the construction of \"up to three\" battery factories in Tennessee and Kentucky.","post_advert":false,"post_legacy":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259987"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259990,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259987\/revisions\/259990"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}