Ford Halts Production, Shipping of F-150 EVs Over Battery Issues
Ford has announced an unspecified potential battery issue that has led the company to stop producing and shipping its electric F-150 truck model, according to reports
Motor Authority reported Thursday that the company had placed a “stop-build and an in-transit stop-ship order” on the truck.
The automaker discovered the issue during its “pre-delivery quality inspections,” the outlet’s Joel Feder noted, citing Ford representative Emma Bergg.
“The team is diligently working on the root cause analysis,” CNBC quoted Bergg as saying.
It is not clear when Ford will begin producing and shipping the model again.
“It depends on how long it will take to conduct the root cause analysis,” Bergg told Motor Authority.
The company cited “execution issues” as a cause of its performance in the earnings report.
In 2021, TechCrunch described the Lightning F-150 as a “critical piece of the company’s $22 billion investment into electrification.”
“The vehicle is one of a trifecta of Ford EV debuts and launches in the past year. And it is possibly the most meaningful in terms of the bottom line,” TechCrunch’s Kirsten Korosec wrote.
However, some observers have questioned the model’s appeal to consumers, specifically on questions of performance.
A Motor Trend review noted the truck’s “limited towing range” following some performance tests:
The truck cut its estimated range in half every time we connected a trailer and punched the load’s weight and dimensions into the 15.5-inch touchscreen.
That number then fell rapidly during the first few miles of highway driving until it accurately reflected what was possible.
Until someone figures out how to double or triple the energy density of lithium-ion batteries, that seems like the most we can ask of electric vehicles that are pressed into towing duty.
Similarly, as Breitbart News noted in September, a YouTuber tested the truck’s towing range and was ultimately disappointed with the results.
“So, yeah, that was abysmally bad, and if the future is electric, there has to be some kind of solution for this,” he said. “I have no idea why EVs tow so bad. My guess would be it doesn’t have a normal transmission where [there are] gears and a car’s in a lower rev range.”
Also potentially impacting its viability in the market is its higher-than-expected price.
The Wall Street Journal reported in October that Ford has hiked the price of the F-150 twice, noting that while the truck was expected to start at “around $40,000,” the Pro model of the Lighting F-150 was ultimately priced at nearly $52,000.
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Tom
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This is how companies go broke…investing is useless technologies to please the government and the global warming retards.
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T. C. Clark
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Electric tractors and farm equipment are being developed….it has been proposed that bigger windmills are needed to reach further up into the atmosphere….the road to disaster is a long and winding rod, eh?
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Howdy
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“My guess would be it doesn’t have a normal transmission where [there are] gears and a car’s in a lower rev range.”
There is a reduction ratio at the motor on the vehicles I’ve seen.
Other than people in smaller vehicles trying to save a few quid, the major selling point of EVs is precisely the lack of a gearbox allows full torque from a standing start to max speed. Other than the group mentioned, nobody buys an EV to save money, nor the planet, and no serous user buys an electric truck do do serious work with it while obtaining highest economy. That’s what the diesel is for.
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Dave
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EVs unsafe at any speed!
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