Business Watch
Dec. 15, 2025
Paula Gardner
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A planned battery factory in Marshall that Michigan taxpayers are heavily subsidizing will dramatically shift production, after Ford Motor Co. drastically downsized its EV ambitions Monday.
The moves announced by Ford are “quite necessary,” said Glenn Stevens, executive director of MichAuto statewide auto advocacy organization. The decisions, Stevens told Bridge, represent a “massive strategic pivot to back away from investments that will not provide return and deploy capital, resources and talent where it will.”