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...Ford is cutting production of its F-150 Lightning electric pick-up truck as it predicts slower EV sales growth this year....
...F-150 Lightning pick-up truck because of weaker sales....
...Ford is reducing production of the F-150 Lightning, the electrified version of its best-selling pick-up truck, and this week it slashed prices on the Mustang Mach-E SUV....
...Ford’s electric pick-up truck, the F-150 Lightning, is critical for the group to defend its profit pool in trucks, but it has left the small SUV space wide open....
...One of its battery subsidiaries has signed a deal with BorgWarner, the US-listed supplier to GM, Ford and Stellantis....
...“They will JFK him [a reference to the assassination of former president John F Kennedy], or he’ll have a ‘heart attack’ or a piano will drop on his head in New York City,” he says....
...Shares in Ford and other electric vehicle makers tumbled after the auto group announced price cuts for its flagship electric pick-up truck, continuing a sector price war....
...Stellantis is aiming to overtake Ford as the world’s largest seller of pick-up trucks and vans within four years, banking that a range of electric and hydrogen models will allow it to pass its global rival...
...“Shortly after launching the F-150 Lightning, rapidly rising material costs, supply constraints and other factors drove up the cost of the EV truck for Ford and our customers,” said Ford Model e chief customer...
...Last week the head of Stellantis warned carmakers cutting electric vehicle prices too fast risked causing a “bloodbath” in the industry after Ford said it was reducing production of its F-150 Lightning pick-up...
...Ford’s F-150 Lightning electric truck starts from $42,000, while General Motors has launched an electric Hummer, which starts from $80,000 and weighs almost five tons....
...The weak demand in the US has prompted Ford to cut production of its F-150 Lightning electric truck and scale back on a battery plant in Michigan....
...Hertz, previously an enthusiastic EV supporter, plans to sell a third of its EV fleet to buy more fossil fuel cars. Ford will cut output of the electric version of its popular F-150 pick-up....
...Other best sellers fell sharply, including Ford’s F-150 Lightning pick-up truck, which dropped 30 per cent from $90,245 to $62,540, and the Chevrolet Bolt, which fell 32 per cent from $26,325 to $17,901....
...River, which divides the US and Canada, that make engines for the Mustang and the company’s bestselling F-series trucks....
...The Texas plant has a production goal of 250,000 Cybertrucks a year, although the company does not expect to meet that objective until at least 2025....
...Ford will begin selling the electric F-150 Lightning in Norway, the first time the US carmaker has sold a version of its flagship pick-up truck outside North America....
...This list should be interesting to a much broader audience than gear heads — notably, we don’t see Ford’s F-series trucks on it....
...Ford said on Wednesday that the production halt of its electrified pick-up, the F-150 Lightning, could last as long as “a few weeks”....
...The Dali was one of the new breed of bigger vessels designed to capitalise on a larger set of Panama Canal locks finished in 2016 — and the vessel’s size could have played a role in the collision....
...Ford said on Wednesday that the halt in production of its electrified pick-up, the F-150 Lightning, could last as long as “a few weeks”....
...That could change if the next round of strikes hits plants that manufacture more lucrative trucks such as Ford’s F-series, GM’s Chevrolet Silverado or Stellantis’s Ram, or if the union selects a facility...
...The company is testing cars and trucks more rigorously, which “will lower our warranty and recall costs”, a long-running struggle for Ford....
...Ford owners will receive access next spring via an adapter that converts the electric connectors in Tesla’s Superchargers for use in Ford’s Mustang Mach-E or F-150 Lightning pick-up trucks....
...The Ford F-150 Lightning — the electric version of America’s bestselling vehicle — can power a home for three days in a hurricane, or a remote job site complete with power tools....
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