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Ford to halt production of electric F-150
Lightning next month until 2025

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Posted By: NorthernDog, 10/31/2024 1:39:54 PM

DETROIT — Ford Motor plans to halt production of its all-electric F-150 Lightning from mid-November until early next year to address bloated inventories and narrow losses on the pickup trucks. The automaker on Thursday confirmed the seven-week shutdown would occur at its Rouge Electric Vehicle Center in suburban Detroit from Nov. 18 until Jan. 6, including previously planned holiday downtime at the end of the year. “We continue to adjust production for an optimal mix of sales growth and profitability,” Ford said in an emailed statement. The roughly 730 hourly workers at the Michigan plant will be placed on temporary

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Ford loses money on every single sale. But they wanted to give Joe-Pop a photo-op in the ''green vehicle'' back in 2021. Enjoy the suck.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: DougTN 10/31/2024 1:44:34 PM (No. 1823546)
Pro tip: Mr. Market drives demand not Biden and his Merry Band of Sexually Ambiguous experts.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: mc squared 10/31/2024 1:48:06 PM (No. 1823547)
If the government has to 'incentivize' a product either with $$$ or the strongarm, the public doesn't want it.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: franq 10/31/2024 1:58:25 PM (No. 1823550)
Pickups were meant to haul "stuff", i.e. payload, not weighty batteries. Hello!!!!! Anybody home???? Think, McFly!!!!
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Reply 4 - Posted by: DVC 10/31/2024 1:58:42 PM (No. 1823551)
"Well sure, we lost a lot of money on e every EV we sell, but we plan on making it up on volume"...... Idiots in charge, literally bankrupting the compant.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: Ida Lou Pino 10/31/2024 2:01:49 PM (No. 1823554)
Oh, no! I need to buy a new golf cart - - and the Ford EV seemed perfect.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: Old Army Vet 10/31/2024 2:15:21 PM (No. 1823566)
I have a sneaky suspicion that production is going to be stopped for a lot longer than that.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: padiva 10/31/2024 2:46:17 PM (No. 1823578)
#6 The dems will forget by 2025./s
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Reply 8 - Posted by: chagrined 10/31/2024 3:09:42 PM (No. 1823589)
How about halting production permanently. That would be the sensible thing to do, so more than likely it won't happen.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: Venturer 10/31/2024 3:55:33 PM (No. 1823617)
It took Ford long enough to figure out that no one wants a pickup that will only go 100 miles when towing.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: chumley 10/31/2024 4:50:08 PM (No. 1823635)
Ford is a company. The only purpose for any company is to make money. They do that by offering products or services that people are willing to pay for. Sometimes they make a mistake and lose money. To intentionally make a mistake is just stupid. When I bought my new 4runner Toyota sent me a survey about why I didnt want a hybrid or electric. I told them I want wing windows and brighter colors. Thats all.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: mc squared 10/31/2024 5:17:19 PM (No. 1823643)
People forget that a manufacturer has to 'go along to get along'. I'm sure GM & Ford want to continue to sell fleets to the government, hence, products that lose money.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: MickTurn 10/31/2024 7:43:20 PM (No. 1823714)
The truck is a piece of JUNK. Saw a video where a guy tried to use that same truck to haul a trailer with a Model T Truck on it, never got over half way to it's destination...which was well within the mileage the Truck was advertised to easily make...
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Reply 13 - Posted by: Max Bear 10/31/2024 8:30:48 PM (No. 1823748)
I've said for years: The problem witrh electric cars (and trucks) is that extension cords are too short.
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