Welcome back. Ford is cutting production of its F-150 Lightning
electric pickup truck and move that will impact over 1000
workers and move consumers away from all electric vehicles as
well.
Fox Business is Jeff Flock is live this morning from
a Ford dealership in New Jersey with the impact.
Good morning to you.
Good morning to you, Maria.
Here it is. It's a beautiful looking truck.
This is the F-150 Lightning,
one that is on the showroom floor here in Celebrity
Ford in Toms River,
NJ. Veronica Maoli. We always come to her when we
want some honest answers.
She is the youngest Ford dealer,
female Ford dealer in America.
How's it selling? You know,
it's a really beautiful truck,
but we're having some trouble getting it off of our
lot.
There's a there's a lot of charging concerns.
A lot of commercial companies don't really want to have
to.
And the time to charge and you know they add
weight to the back of the truck,
it's it's it's a little bit of a struggle right
now.
We got pictures, Maria, of the Rouge plant,
that's where they've just eliminated one shift and you know
hundreds of workers.
What do you think as you go forward?
A lot of people are getting into hybrids these days.
Yeah, yeah, I think that that's the way that things
are going to go.
I think that we all know,
we all talk about how it is just the infrastructure
is not there yet for EVs and I think that
they're trying to move a little bit too fast.
So the, the happy medium right now is a hybrid.
Yeah, we're looking at the market share for hybrids doubled
in the last month,
which we have numbers and also hybrids can be a
better buy,
right? Yeah, absolutely. Drive, you know you don't have to
worry about always having to charge.
You have the option to have that,
you know eco, you know mode,
but you don't have to have the charger if you
don't have to depend on that.
Of course hybrids as you know Maria,
they're not exactly a new thing and I've been around
for 25 years and actually the technology is pretty perfected
by now,
right, unlike absolutely. You know we're we're still doing a
lot of research and data analytics on EV.
We don't know what the value is of the cars
after.
We don't know even the battery life capability right now
so.
You know, that's one of the big concerns.
And This is why we come here.
Maria, for straight talk from a Ford dealer.
Sometimes they just try to sell your car.
Well, not Veronica. She's she's going to give us the
real not not going to ever put a customer in
a car that I think they're going to be unhappy
in. So, well, there you go.
Maybe I'll buy one here too.
But, you know, I've never bought a new car,
so it would be the first Maria.
All right, Jeff, thanks so much.
And thank you, Veronica, for your honesty there.