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The Wall Street Journal<\/em><\/a> reported today that Ford may be on the verge of sunsetting the F-150 Lightning truck. The model is an electric pick-up truck, and the best-selling one in the US, but the publication cited Ford execs who said the company would consider halting production completely on the F-150 Lightning. We\u2019ve reached out to Ford for comment and will update if we receive a statement.<\/p>\n The auto brand said it would cut back on production last January<\/a> due to slowing demand for the vehicles. At the time, Ford shuffled several of the workers who had been building the F-150 Lightning to constructing other auto models. Then, a fire<\/a> this October at an aluminum plant supplying Ford led the company to pause production of the Lightning trucks. In Ford’s third-quarter financial results<\/a>, its Model e electric vehicle operation lost $1.4 billion, and has lost $3.6 billion over the first nine months of 2025. Rather than projects such as the F-150 Lightning, Ford has hinted that it will shift strategy to work on smaller, more affordable electric vehicles based on its Universal EV platform.<\/p>\n Ford may not be the only manufacturer to ramp down its EV plans in the US. A federal tax credit of $7,500 for purchasing EVs was abruptly ended<\/a> in September under the current administration’s financial policies. After unveiling its latest EV models this week, Honda CEO Toshihiro Mibe spoke to Engadget<\/em><\/a> about the potential long-term impact: “With the Trump administration in place, we have a sense that maybe the EV growth has been moved back out by maybe five years or so into the future.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n