Ford moves to boost production of electric F-150 Lightning pickup truck

DEARBORN, Mich. — Ford Motor has added a 3rd accumulation displacement to its Michigan works that produces the electrical F-150 Lightning arsenic it looks to boost output.

The summation of the 3rd displacement comes arsenic the automaker is expanding the recently built installation to deed a apical capableness of 150,000 units by adjacent fall.

Ford is connected way to deed that antecedently announced accumulation milestone, Corey Williams, works manager of the Dearborn Truck Plant and Rouge electrical conveyance center, said during a circuit of the installation Tuesday.

The 3rd displacement was added successful November, bumping up the electrical motortruck plant's employment from 500 to astir 750 people.

The works is present moving 3 rotating crews of workers connected 10-hour shifts 7 days a week, Williams said, maintaining a precocious level of accumulation adjacent arsenic operation workers scramble to implicit an enlargement of the facility.

"That's however we're doing this fast. We're gathering merchandise portion building" retired the factory, Williams said.

Ford had primitively planned to physique astir 40,000 Lightnings per year, successful a caller installation adjacent to its longtime pickup mill successful Dearborn. But it decided to expand the mill to boost production aft aboriginal request for the electrical motortruck exceeded its expectations.

Earlier connected Tuesday, MotorTrend mag named the F-150 Lightning is its 2023 motortruck of the year. The magazine's editors said the motortruck received unanimous enactment for the award, citing its wide show and entreaty to accepted pickup-truck buyers.