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Source. (wnd.com)

There is more bad news for the electric vehicle industry.

CNN reported Monday that automobile giant Ford will lay off about 700 employees responsible for assembling the F-150 Lightning, the electric version of its highly popular pickup truck, at the Rouge Electric Vehicle Center in Dearborn, Michigan, close to its main headquarters.

“We are adjusting the schedule at the Rouge Electric Vehicle Center because of multiple constraints, including the supply chain and working through processing and delivering vehicles held for quality checks after restarting production in August,” the company said in a statement.


However, The Wall Street Journal reported last week that it had obtained a memo from a UAW leader expressing concerns about falling demand for Ford's electric pickup.

“It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that our sales for the Lightning have tanked,” the memo said.

[Source.](https://www.wnd.com/2023/10/ford-lays-off-hundreds-workers-building-electric-f-150/) > There is more bad news for the electric vehicle industry. > CNN reported Monday that automobile giant Ford will lay off about 700 employees responsible for assembling the F-150 Lightning, the electric version of its highly popular pickup truck, at the Rouge Electric Vehicle Center in Dearborn, Michigan, close to its main headquarters. > “We are adjusting the schedule at the Rouge Electric Vehicle Center because of multiple constraints, including the supply chain and working through processing and delivering vehicles held for quality checks after restarting production in August,” the company said in a statement. ----------------------- > However, The Wall Street Journal reported last week that it had obtained a memo from a UAW leader expressing concerns about falling demand for Ford's electric pickup. > “It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that our sales for the Lightning have tanked,” the memo said.

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Electric version of the highly popular truck.

Now, I'm curious about the hybrid version. That seems to have promise. They put the electric part as part of the transmission, so the electric part can be the engine, the engine brake, the generator / battery charger, an engine enhancer to get off the line, or stay the fuck out of the way.

All electric truck? No way in hell I'd ever buy that. You can't bring me a bucket of sunshine to keep me from being stranded.

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Until some sort of fast-charge long lasting storage system appears, hybrid is an excellent choice. It's the next step in the evolution of the car, trying to jump to a completely new technology is going to be painfully hard.

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With hybrids, you aren't stranded. That's the big difference. Technology has worked well in diesel locomotives for nearly a century.