Ford to Halt F-150 Lightning Production as EV Demand Wanes

Ford Motor Co. schedules to shut down the Michigan factory that creates its F-150 Lightning plug-in pickup truck, its signature electric vehicle, thcimpolite the end of the year as need for EVs persists to wane.

The transfer is the tardyst blow to a model that had been a caccesspiece of Ford’s EV strategy and that Chief Executive Officer Jim Farley shelp would be “a test for adselection of electric vehicles.” The autocreater will commence a seven-week shutdown in mid-November of the Dearborn schedulet visited by Plivent Joe Biden in 2021, who drove a Lightning and declared “this sucker’s speedy.”