Ford Motor Company will build its F-Series Super Duty pickup trucks at the Oakville assembly plant, starting in 2026, the company announced July 18.

The previous plan to build three-row electric SUVs at the facility is dead.

The Oakville plant will be Ford’s third facility building Super Duty trucks, expanding production by up to 100,000 units. The two existing facilities are in Kentucky and Ohio.

Ford said the move was driven by demand for the large pickup trucks.

“Super Duty is a vital tool for businesses and people around the world and, even with our Kentucky truck plant and Ohio assembly plant running flat out, we can’t meet the demand,” said Ford president and CEO Jim Farley in a news release. “This move benefits our customers and supercharges our Ford Pro commercial business. At the same time, we look forward to introducing three-row electric utility vehicles, leveraging our experience in three-row utility vehicles and our learnings as America’s No. 2 electric vehicle brand to deliver fantastic, profitable vehicles.”

The Oakville plant was originally scheduled to begin assembly of three-row electric SUVs beginning in 2025, which the company pushed back two years to 2027, citing a lack of demand.

Ford said the Super Duty assembly will initially secure 1,800 jobs at the Oakville facility, 400 more than would initially have been needed for the electric vehicles.

Additionally, with the switch to building Super Duty pickups instead, employees will return to work a year earlier than the 2027 revised EV timeline.

The Windsor engine complex will also add approximately 150 jobs to build the V8 engines needed for the Super Duty trucks.

Unifor, the union representing the autoworkers at the plant, welcomed the change.

“This new retooling plan for the Oakville plant addresses our union’s concerns with Ford Motor Company’s decision to delay new vehicle production for a period that was too long, too disruptive, and too harmful to accept,” said Unifor national president Lana Payne in a news release. “Working with our local unions and company executives, we came to an agreement that will not only see our members back to work sooner, it protects our members’ jobs well into the future.”

While the plan to build EVs beginning in 2027 is dead, the Oakville plant will eventually build electrified vehicles. Later this decade, the plant will begin producing the next generation of Super Duty trucks, including electrified versions. It’s expected the Oakville plant will be the sole source of multi-energy Super Duty production.