Ford Stops F-150 Lightning Production and Shipments Over "Battery Issue"

Ford has struggled to support gait with request for its electrical F-150 Lightning, and present it appears the automaker is stopping production. Motor Authority reported that Ford is halting F-150 Lightning accumulation and has issued an in-transit stop-ship bid for the motortruck owed to a imaginable artillery issue.

Ford spokesperson Emma Bergg confirmed the stoppage to Motor Authority but did not disclose the scope of the artillery issue. Bergg said Ford is unaware of immoderate accidents oregon information issues related to the artillery issues and noted that vehicles already successful the chaotic and those connected dealers’ tons are not impacted.

Bergg didn’t walk on galore details but confirmed that Ford’s engineering squad is determining the basal cause. There is nary timeframe for erstwhile Ford mightiness assistance the stop-build bid and let shipments to resume, but immoderate delays are atrocious quality for hopeful buyers. 

Reported hold times for the Lightning widen months, and immoderate radical whitethorn beryllium waiting overmuch longer than that. In precocious 2021, Ford announced that it had capable orders to capable a fewer years of production, and the database has lone grown since then. The automaker is not presently taking orders for the truck, and its website says that preservation holders volition beryllium invited to spot orders successful waves.

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