Ford might not resume manufacturing of the F-150 Lightning

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 think about 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 in the reduction of on manufacturing last January on account of slowing demand for the automobiles. 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 fire this October at an aluminum plant supplying Ford led the corporate to pause manufacturing of the Lightning vans. In Ford’s third-quarter monetary results, 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 initiatives such because the F-150 Lightning, Ford has hinted that it’ll shift technique to work on smaller, extra reasonably priced electrical automobiles 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 affect: “With the Trump administration in place, now we have a way that possibly the EV progress has been moved again out by possibly 5 years or so into the long run.”