The Wall Street Journal reported in the present day that Ford could also be on the verge of sunsetting the F-150 Lightning truck. The mannequin is an electrical pick-up truck, and the best-selling one within the US, however the publication cited Ford execs who stated the corporate would take into account halting manufacturing utterly on the F-150 Lightning. We’ve reached out to Ford for remark and can replace if we obtain an announcement.
The auto model stated it could reduce on manufacturing final January as a consequence of slowing demand for the autos. On the time, Ford shuffled a number of of the employees who had been constructing the F-150 Lightning to establishing different auto fashions. Then, a hearth this October at an aluminum plant supplying Ford led the corporate to pause manufacturing of the Lightning vans. In Ford's third-quarter monetary outcomes, its Mannequin e electrical car operation misplaced $1.4 billion, and has misplaced $3.6 billion over the primary 9 months of 2025. Quite than tasks such because the F-150 Lightning, Ford has hinted that it’s going to shift technique to work on smaller, extra inexpensive electrical autos based mostly on its Common EV platform.
Ford might not be the one producer to ramp down its EV plans within the US. A federal tax credit score of $7,500 for buying EVs was abruptly led to September below the present administration's monetary insurance policies. After unveiling its newest EV fashions this week, Honda CEO Toshihiro Mibe spoke to Engadget concerning the potential long-term affect: "With the Trump administration in place, we now have a way that possibly the EV development has been moved again out by possibly 5 years or so into the long run."
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