This is the F-150 Lightning fire that made Ford pause production
by Emma Roth from The Verge - All Posts on (#6B0JA)
Image: CNBC A new video obtained by CNBC gives us a first look at the fire that engulfed a set of Ford F-150 Lightnings in a Dearborn, Michigan, holding lot earlier this year. This heavily edited version of the video shows police arriving on the scene as smoke billows from a group of electric trucks tucked in the back of the lot.
Let's hope it doesn't blow up," one police officer says during the video. The smoke is clear as day." In February, Ford suspended production the production of and recalled some of its Ford F-150 Lightnings after one of the vehicles caught fire while charging and spread to two neighboring trucks. Ford eventually traced the cause of the fire to a rare" issue affecting the vehicle's battery, which is made by South Korean...