{"id":37512,"date":"2025-12-15T23:32:58","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T23:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/ford-takes-19-5bn-hit-amid-electric-vehicle-retreat-as-trump-policies-bite\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T23:32:58","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T23:32:58","slug":"ford-takes-19-5bn-hit-amid-electric-vehicle-retreat-as-trump-policies-bite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/ford-takes-19-5bn-hit-amid-electric-vehicle-retreat-as-trump-policies-bite\/","title":{"rendered":"Ford takes $19.5bn hit amid electric vehicle retreat as Trump policies bite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Company to scrap several electric models and focus on gas and hybrid as US president pulls support for EVs<\/p>\n<p>Ford said on Monday it will take a $19.5bn writedown and is killing several electric-vehicle models, in the most dramatic example yet of the auto industry\u2019s retreat from battery-powered models in response to the Trump administration\u2019s policies and weakening EV demand.<\/p>\n<p>Ford, based in Dearborn, Michigan, said it will stop making the F-150 Lightning in its electric vehicle form, but will pivot to producing an extended-range electric model, a version of a hybrid vehicle called an Erev, which uses a gas-powered generator to recharge the battery.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2025\/dec\/15\/ford-electric-vehicles-trump\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Company to scrap several electric models and focus on gas and hybrid as US president pulls support for EVs Ford said on Monday it will take a $19.5bn writedown and is killing several electric-vehicle models, in the most dramatic example yet of the auto industry\u2019s retreat from battery-powered models in response to the Trump administration\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37513,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fast-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-25 21:40:20","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}