Ford has put a pause on sending out broker shipments of the F-150 Lightning electrical pickup, regardless that the corporate additionally just lately started handing over its 2024 gasoline variations of the truck.
On February 9, Ford put a stop-ship order out for the F-150 Lightning for an undisclosed reason why, in step with a spokesperson in a observation to Car Information. The automaker remains to be generating the F-150 Lightning at its Rouge Electrical Car (EV) Middle, and it’s no longer transparent when the corporate plans to renew deliveries of the pickup.
In the meantime, Ford has additionally begun handing over shipments of its 2024 gas-powered F-150 devices, after stock ranges on the corporate’s retaining loads were piling up since it all started manufacturing in December.
“We began delivery the primary newly designed F-150 pickups to sellers this week,” Ford famous in a observation. “MY24 Lightnings began delivery remaining month. We predict to ramp up shipments within the coming weeks as we whole thorough release high quality assessments to make sure those new F-150s meet our prime requirements and enjoyment consumers.”
Ford hasn’t disclosed why it issued the stop-sale on F-150 Lightning shipments, and an organization spokesperson declined to touch upon whether or not gasoline variations of the F-150 had been dealing with high quality holds. The corporate did say it were dealing with a “provider portions worry” with each the gasoline and electrical variations of the truck in past due January, slowing down manufacturing.
Whilst Ford firstly stated it deliberate to start out delivery the brand new fashion yr pickups in early 2024, the corporate has had lots of the F-150 devices piling up in retaining loads over the last few months. One business buyer of Ford’s instructed Car Information that the supply date on a nearly-100-truck cargo were not on time by way of as many as 8 weeks at this level.
Ultimate month, Ford additionally detailed plans to scale back its F-150 Lightning manufacturing forecast for this yr to re-focus on gasoline car output, even moving some employees from the Rouge facility in Dearborn, Michigan, to its Michigan Meeting Plant in Wayne.
In a observation to Teslarati about when the corporate deliberate to extend F-150 Lightning manufacturing to its earlier stage, a Ford spokesperson stated that the corporate would “proceed to check F-150 Lightning manufacturing with call for.”
The inside track additionally comes simply days after Ford introduced a couple of incentives for the F-150 Lightning, together with as much as $15,000 off of the acquisition value of positive configurations. The automaker additionally completed 2023 with its best-ever quarter for EV gross sales, between the F-150 Lightning, the E-Transit van and the Mustang Mach-E.
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