Ford could not resume manufacturing of the F-150 Lightning

The Wall Street Journal reported immediately 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 contemplate halting manufacturing fully on the F-150 Lightning. We’ve reached out to Ford for remark and can replace if we obtain a press release.

The auto model stated it could in the reduction of on manufacturing last January resulting from 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 setting up different auto fashions. Then, a fire this October at an aluminum plant supplying Ford led the corporate to pause manufacturing of the Lightning vehicles. In Ford’s third-quarter monetary results, its Mannequin e electrical automobile operation misplaced $1.4 billion, and has misplaced $3.6 billion over the primary 9 months of 2025. Fairly than initiatives 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 ended in September underneath the present administration’s monetary insurance policies. After unveiling its newest EV fashions this week, Honda CEO Toshihiro Mibe spoke to Engadget in regards to the potential long-term impression: “With the Trump administration in place, now we have a way that possibly the EV development has been moved again out by possibly 5 years or so into the long run.”