{"id":622135,"date":"2023-12-12T10:51:01","date_gmt":"2023-12-12T05:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=622135"},"modified":"2023-12-12T12:15:14","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T06:45:14","slug":"ford-cuts-down-production-plan-for-f-150-e-pickup-truck-as-demand-slowdowns-for-evs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/ford-cuts-down-production-plan-for-f-150-e-pickup-truck-as-demand-slowdowns-for-evs\/","title":{"rendered":"Ford cuts down production plan for F-150 e-pickup truck as demand slowdowns for EVs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ford Motor Co is cutting 2024 production goals in half for its F-150 Lightning plug-in pickup truck \u2014 its signature electric vehicle \u2014 due to slowing demand for battery-powered models. <\/p>\n<p>The automaker now intends to build 1,600 of the trucks a week in 2024 at its plant in Dearborn, Michigan, down from a previous plan to manufacture 3,200 units of the model weekly, a company spokeswoman said Monday. The OEM has been informing suppliers of the production cuts on a model Chief Executive Officer Jim Farley once said was \u201ca test for adoption for electric vehicles\u201d in America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ford Motor Co is cutting 2024 production goals in half for its F-150 Lightning plug-in pickup truck \u2014 its signature electric vehicle \u2014 due to slowing demand for battery-powered models. The automaker now intends to build 1,600 of the trucks a week in 2024 at its plant in Dearborn, Michigan, down from a previous plan to manufacture 3,200 units of the model weekly, a company spokeswoman said Monday. The OEM has been informing suppliers of the production cuts on a model Chief Executive Officer Jim Farley once said was \u201ca test for adoption for electric vehicles\u201d in America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,240,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-622135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=622135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}