Ford May Not Resume Production Of The F-150 Lightning

The Wall Street Journal reported coming that Ford whitethorn beryllium connected nan verge of sunsetting nan F-150 Lightning truck. The exemplary is an electrical pick-up truck, and nan best-selling 1 successful nan US, but nan publication cited Ford execs who said nan institution would see halting accumulation wholly connected nan F-150 Lightning. We’ve reached retired to Ford for remark and will update if we person a statement.

The car marque said it would trim backmost connected accumulation last January owed to slowing request for nan vehicles. At nan time, Ford shuffled respective of nan workers who had been building nan F-150 Lightning to constructing different car models. Then, a fire this October astatine an aluminum works supplying Ford led nan institution to region accumulation of nan Lightning trucks. In Ford's third-quarter financial results, its Model e electrical conveyance cognition mislaid $1.4 billion, and has mislaid $3.6 cardinal complete nan first 9 months of 2025. Rather than projects specified arsenic nan F-150 Lightning, Ford has hinted that it will displacement strategy to activity connected smaller, much affordable electrical vehicles based connected its Universal EV platform.

Ford whitethorn not beryllium nan only shaper to ramp down its EV plans successful nan US. A national taxation in installments of $7,500 for purchasing EVs was abruptly ended successful September nether nan existent administration's financial policies. After unveiling its latest EV models this week, Honda CEO Toshihiro Mibe said to Engadget astir nan imaginable semipermanent impact: "With nan Trump management successful place, we person a consciousness that possibly nan EV maturation has been moved backmost retired by possibly 5 years aliases truthful into nan future."