Ford Motor Company plans to make the largest investment in its history in U.S. manufacturing sites that would build the electric F-Series trucks and the batteries to power future electric Ford and Lincoln vehicles in an $11.4-billion partnership with its South Korean battery partner, SK Innovation. Ford will invest $7 billion of the planned sum—its largest-ever manufacturing investment at one time by any automotive manufacturer in the U.S., the American automaker said in a statement . The plan envisages the construction of a $5.6 billion production complex in Stanton, Tennessee, called Blue Oval City. The complex will build next-generation electric F-Series pickups and advanced batteries, creating around 6,000 new jobs, Ford said. The carmaker also plans to build a dedicated battery manufacturing complex with SK Innovation—the $5.8 billion BlueOvalSK Battery Park—in Glendale in central Kentucky. Twin battery plants on the site are intended to supply Ford’s North American assembly […]