Louisville Assembly Plant is the older of Ford’s two factories in Louisville, Kentucky, opened in 1955 and covering about 3 million square feet. It has built a long run of small and midsize Fords, most recently the Ford Escape and its Lincoln twin, the Corsair. Both came off the line for the last time on 17 December 2025.
The plant is now the first site to use Ford’s Universal EV Production System, a roughly $2 billion conversion. Instead of one long moving line, the vehicle is built as separate sub-assemblies that come together late in the process, an arrangement Ford calls the assembly tree, using large aluminium castings and a structural battery pack to cut the number of parts and fasteners. Ford has said the retooled plant will employ about 2,200 people, around 600 fewer than it did building the Escape and Corsair.
The first vehicle from the new system is the Fathom, a midsize electric pickup priced from $28,350 before a $1,595 destination charge, with a standard-range battery Ford rates at around 300 miles. Preorders open in early 2027 and customer deliveries follow later in the year. Ford has not announced a second model for the plant.
