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Confirmed per History.com[3]'s "Ford's[2] assembly line starts rolling" entry, which dates the first complete-automobile moving assembly line to December 1, 1913 at Ford's Highland Park plant.
Ford's own corporate history[3] page for the Highland Park plant corroborates that the moving assembly line introduced there in 1913 was the breakthrough that let Ford mass-produce the Model T, consistent with the pin's account.
History.com's "This Day in History" entry states that on December 1, 1913, Henry Ford[2] installed the first moving assembly line for full automobile production at Highland Park, matching the pin's date and location exactly.
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The plant will build the company’s next-generation EVs that are expected to arrive to market around mid-decade.
The changes to the Oakville complex will include combining three body shops into one and adding battery pack assembly, Ford said.
The Oakville plant will continue to build the gas-powered Ford Edge and Lincoln Nautilus crossovers up until the plant’s downtime.
The investment is part of Ford’s plan to have production capacity for 2 million EVs globally by the end of 2026.
The retooling is expected to take six months and begin in the second quarter of next year, Ford said.
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