Teslarati

MARCH 28, 2024

Ford is cutting its F-150 Lightning production workforce by two-thirds as the company continues to try and ramp manufacturing of electric vehicles and work toward profitability. F-150 Lightning production was slashed late last year as Ford continued to weigh what a proper and strategic output of its EV pickup would be.

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F-150 Ford Production Louisville 119

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 27, 2012

Escape: EcoBoost four-cylinder engines in the 2013 Escape built at Louisville Assembly Plant. F-150: Exhaust manifolds for the 3.5-liter liter EcoBoost built in Cleveland and used in F-150. Explorer: Brake rotors for the 2011 Explorer built in Chicago.

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Oil-Sands Ford F-150 Escape 252

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2011

Ford Motor Company will build a new vehicle at its Kansas City Assembly Plant in Missouri after Ford Escape production moves to Ford’s Louisville Assembly Plant and retooling of the Kansas City facility is complete. It currently produces the best-selling Ford F-150 on one shift and the award-winning Ford Escape on three crews.

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Kansas City Kansas F-150 Ford 210

Green Car Congress

JUNE 28, 2013

Specifically, Westport secures its position as Ford’s largest partner under the Qualified Vehicle Modifier (QVM) program with more than 10 products and approximately 150 Ford authorized dealerships.

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Clean Cleaning Gas F-150 186

Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2009

Ford will be raising the fuel efficiency of more than a dozen models, including the Focus, Escape, Taurus and F-150, representing close to two million new vehicles annually. In addition, theses loans will help the company convert two truck plants to the production of cars.

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Tesla Motors Motor Motors Motoring 170

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Ford Motor Company will build two new massive, environmentally and technologically advanced campuses in Tennessee and Kentucky that will produce the next generation of electric F-Series trucks and the batteries to power future electric Ford and Lincoln vehicles. located between Louisville and Bowling Green), which is targeted to open in 2025.

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Kentucky Tennessee Ford Building 397

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Several after-market companies have done PHEV conversions of the Ford Escape hybrid and one has done a retrofit of the F-150 pickup -- see Where PHEVs Are and ICE-Conversions.) The Louisville Courier-Journal ) 10/25/06 "Plug-ins, [David Hermance] said, "have been put forward as the silver bullet solution for almost everything."

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Plug-in Plug Hybrid PHEV 45