{"id":44107,"date":"2023-03-03T00:03:47","date_gmt":"2023-03-03T05:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=44107"},"modified":"2023-03-03T00:03:47","modified_gmt":"2023-03-03T05:03:47","slug":"1138926_ford-f-150-lightning-production-restarting-march-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=44107","title":{"rendered":"Ford F-150 Lightning production restarting March 13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ford officials believe the battery-related issue that led to an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorauthority.com\/news\/1138766_ford-f-150-lightning-production-halted-due-to-potential-battery-issue\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">F-150 Lightning catching fire<\/a> has been resolved.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, Ford spokesperson Emma Bergg told Motor Authority production of the Ford F-150 Lightning will restart on March 13.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"static-marker-video-player-primis\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The continued production shutdown will allow the Lightning&#8217;s battery supplier, SK On, time to build battery cells into arrays and packs before delivering them to the production line, according to Bergg.<\/p>\n<p>All Lightnings already built but not shipped will continue to sit under the in-transit stop-ship order as the teams work through &#8220;engineering and parts updates.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Bergg would not elaborate what those engineering and parts updates are, nor would she detail why there was a fire, what the battery issue that led to the fire was, or what changes to the truck will be made going forward.<\/p>\n<p>A vehicle fire caused by a battery issue took place in February on the lot in Dearborn, Michigan, where the company holds vehicles for quality checks. It caused the production halt that will last a full month.<\/p>\n<p>A stop-sale and recall have not been issued for F-150 Lightnings that were already built, at dealers, or already delivered. All Lightnings that have left the factory were cleared for scheduled deliveries.<\/p>\n<p>Ford doesn&#8217;t release detailed production information and wouldn&#8217;t disclose how many Lightnings were rolling off the assembly line per day when production was shut down. It&#8217;s unclear how far this setback pushes production behind schedule. Bergg noted Ford isn&#8217;t disclosing details on how many Lightning reservations are in the bank, but said there were 200,0000 when Ford stopped taking reservations in December 2021.<\/p>\n<p>In 2022, Ford reported 15,617 F-150 Lightning sales with 2,359 sales in December.<\/p>\n<p>Ford hiked the Lightning&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorauthority.com\/news\/1138170_ford-f-150-lightning-price-december-2022\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">price three times<\/a> since its launch almost a year ago. The base Lightning is now $57,869, or\u00a038.9% more expensive than when it went on sale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ford officials believe the battery-related issue that led to an F-150 Lightning catching fire has been resolved. On Thursday, Ford spokesperson Emma Bergg told Motor Authority production of the Ford F-150 Lightning will restart on March 13. The continued production shutdown will allow the Lightning&#8217;s battery supplier, SK On, time to build battery cells into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44108,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-design-concepts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/44108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}