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DEARBORN, March 28, 2024 ~ The Ford Motor Co. will greatly cut down its 2,100 full-time workers at its facility that produces its F-150 Lighting as sales growth for the electric vehicle slows.
About a third of the current workers will stay at the Rouge Electric Vehicle Center in Dearborn, 700 will be transferred to the company’s Michigan Assembly Plant in Wayne, and the remaining 700 will either accept retirement packages or be reassigned to other Michigan facilities. Detroit Free Press automotive reporter Phoebe Wall Howard told WJR‘s Guy Gordon, Lloyd Jackson, and Jamie Edmonds that, “Ford is seeing that there’s more demand with hybrids right now, (so) they are dialing it back on the electric vehicle production. It doesn’t mean there’s no demand for EV’s, it just means the demand has slowed down.“
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March 28, 2024 ~ Ford Motor Co. is cutting or moving many of the workers at the Rouge Electric Vehicle Center, the factory that builds the F-150 Lightning. Guy Gordon, Lloyd Jackson, and Jamie Edmonds talk with Detroit Free Press automotive reporter Phoebe Wall Howard about what this means for the shift to EV’s in the auto industry.
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