Ford Motor said Friday it will temporarily cut one of three shifts at the Michigan plant that makes its F-150 Lightning electric pickup truck, citing several constraints, including supply chain issues.
The second-largest US automaker said the cuts were not related to the United Auto Workers (UAW) union strike.
Ford said the measure would take effect Monday and affect about 700 jobs, adding that it would rotate the cut shifts. The company did not say how long the production reduction would last.
Ford said it is “working to process and deliver vehicles held for quality checks after restarting production in August.”
The Wall Street Journal reported Friday that a union member said in a memo that Ford was considering canceling a shift, citing slowing demand and indicating that the company is considering making more gasoline-powered pickup trucks.
“It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to realize that our Lightning sales have plummeted,” the note read, according to the newspaper.
Ford declined to comment on the memo.
The automaker reported last week that U.S. F-150 electric vehicle sales fell 46% in the quarter ended Sept. 30 to 3,503 units, but are still 40% higher than in the first nine months of 2022. Electric F-150s represent about 2% of all Fords. F Series Sales
Source: Terra
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