"Another fire has broken out at the Novelis aluminum plant in Oswego, NY that supplies sheet metal for Ford's trucks, including its all-electric F-150 Lightning. The four-alarm fire started Thursday morning and has still not been extinguished. Local news outlet CNY Central was the first to report the new blaze. The Novelis plant suffered a major fire in September that stopped operations, and Ford has said the disruption would likely cost the automaker around $2 billion."
"Despite a second, smaller fire in October, the aluminum supplier had planned to restart production at the New York facility in December. (Stellantis and Nissan have also taken smaller hits to production as a result of the September fire.) Ford had to scale back production of essentially all of its F-150 trucks following the September fire, as they have used aluminum body panels for years now."
A four-alarm fire broke out at the Novelis aluminum plant in Oswego, NY, which supplies sheet metal for Ford's trucks, including the all-electric F-150 Lightning. The blaze started Thursday morning and had not been extinguished. The plant experienced a major September fire that halted operations and was estimated to cost automakers around $2 billion. Novelis planned to restart production in December despite a smaller October fire. Ford scaled back production of nearly all F-150 trucks after September, prioritizing gas and hybrid models over the Lightning. The impact of the new fire on Ford's plans remains unclear.
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