Ford delays launch of Tennessee-built EV truck to 2027
Kel Kearns, former plant manager of BlueOval City, wraps up a test drive of the Ford F-150 Lightning truck in Downtown Memphis April 14, 2023. (Patrick Lantrip/Daily Memphian file)
The company said delaying the launch will enable the company to use lower-cost battery technology and take advantage of other cost breakthroughs while the market continues to develop.
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Ford Motor Co. BlueOval City auto manufacturing Ed Stanton BlueOval SKAisling Mäki
Aisling Mäki covers health care, banking and finance, technology and professions. After launching her career in news two decades ago, she worked in public relations for almost a decade before returning to journalism in 2022.
As a health care reporter, she’s collaborated with The Carter Center, earned awards from the Associated Press and Society of Professional Journalists and won a 2024 Tennessee Press Association first-place prize for her series on discrepancies in Shelby County life expectancy by ZIP code.
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