In this video, Jerry from the YouTube channel JerryRigEverything tours Ford's Dearborn, Michigan plant to see how the F-150 Lightning electric truck is made. The footage highlights details like truck bodies conveyed from a separate building via above-street passageways and the coordinated assembly process behind Ford's flagship EV pickup.
The video captures both the scale and complexity of building electric trucks, offering an inside look at the technology and manufacturing systems that define Ford's EV strategy, along with the challenges of ramping up an electric pickup line.
Laura Davis is the editor in chief of New Equipment Digest (NED), a brand part of the Manufacturing Group at EndeavorB2B. NED covers all products, equipment, solutions, and technology related to the broad scope of manufacturing, from mops and buckets to robots and automation. Laura has been a manufacturing product writer for eight years, knowledgeable about the ins and outs of the industry, along with what readers are looking for when wanting to learn about the latest products on the market.