Ford might not resume manufacturing of the F-150 Lightning

The Wall Street Journal reported right this moment 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 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 last January as a result 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. Somewhat than tasks 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 is probably not 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 beneath 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 influence: “With the Trump administration in place, we’ve got a way that perhaps the EV progress has been moved again out by perhaps 5 years or so into the long run.”