“The truck’s the best precedence, however the electrical truck might be greater,” he stated.
Because the Lightning shares a majority of its components with the gasoline-powered F-150 — the inside is an identical apart from the instrument panel and cluster, as is the mattress — Palmer stated there’s much less probability of one thing going flawed with the early builds, a state of affairs Ford is attempting to keep away from after it bungled the 2019 launch of the redesigned Explorer and provider points derailed the beginning of Bronco manufacturing in 2020.
“It isn’t a dangerous launch,” he stated.
He additionally stated the Lightning manufacturing unit in Dearborn, Mich., referred to as the Rouge Electrical Car Middle, has new applied sciences meant to enhance manufacturing, together with what he known as the “gamification of high quality.” Employees there are scored on how they carry out their duties, and people with the very best quality scores obtain prizes and different incentives.
“The pleasure [at the plant] is ridiculous,” Palmer stated. “That is a historic website, and now it will get our most necessary new product.”
