Ford sold 7,162 units of the Lightning in Q3 2024, up from the 3,503 units in Q3 of last year. ... Year-to-date, Ford sold 22,807 F-150 Lightning EVs. ...
[22,807 units lol. Ford sold nearly 751,000 F-series pick up trucks in 2023, so that's like 3% of the 2023 total]
Overall, Ford’s all-electric vehicle sales in the third quarter of
this year amounted to 23,509 units, up 12.2% from last year’s 20,962
vehicles. Year-to-date, Ford sold 67,689 EVs, up 45% compared to last
year’s 46,671 units. ...
Ford sold 432,429 combustion-powered vehicles in the third quarter, down
2.8% year-over-year, and 1,340,139 units year-to-date, down 1.8%
year-over-year.
Reported here.
That means year-to-date total EV sales are just 5.05% of total combustion-powered vehicle sales year to date.
People aren't buying these dogs.
None of these stories mention these facts.
CBS: Ford to pause production of F-150 Lightning electric pickup trucks
CNBC: Ford to halt production of electric F-150 Lightning next month until January
MarketWatch: Ford to Pause Production of F-150 Lightning EV Pickup Trucks
Reuters, to it's credit actually reported some actual numbers: Ford to halt production of F-150 Lightning EV pickup trucks for six weeks :
Ford
said this month its Ford-brand U.S. EV sales are up 45% this year and
sales of F-150 Lightning more than doubled to 7,100 in the three months
ending Sept. 30 - thought [sic] they still represent just 3.6% of all F-Series
pickup sales.
If Ford is smart it will abandon this boondoggle which is going to cost it $5 billion plus in 2024 and even more going forward and just stick with hybrids and hope Donald Trump fixes this mess.