(Reuters) – Ford Motor Co mentioned on Friday that it’s going to open orders for its common F-150 Lightning truck subsequent week as a part of their plan to scale to annual manufacturing of 150,000 models.
Ford is dealing with one other manufacturing snag on the F-150 pickup vehicles as a consequence of lacking door handles, a supply informed Reuters on Wednesday.
The corporate confronted a manufacturing snag in February after a battery fireplace. Manufacturing resumed in March.
“Whereas a provider half scarcity is affecting a few of our North American vegetation, we count on to make up all the manufacturing that’s impacted,” the automaker mentioned in an emailed assertion on Wednesday.
Ford this week posted sturdy first-quarter income and reiterated its plans to spice up Lightning manufacturing to a price of 150,000 automobiles a yr by the tip of this yr.
(Reporting by David Shepardson in Washington and Lavanya Ahire in Bengaluru; Modifying by Stephen Coates)
