Ford Motor Company has asked dealers to stop selling its Mustang Mach-e all-electric model due to safety flaws that could cause passengers to be trapped in the car, which led to the company’s pure electric model in the second quarter of this year, according to BloombergElectric vehicleSales were down 31.4% y/y to 16,438 units. In the first half of this year, Ford pure electric vehiclesin the US marketDeliveries were only 38,988 units, down nearly 12% year-on-year.
2025 Mustang Mach-e; Image credit: Ford Motor
Ford Motor Company said the decline in pure electric vehicle sales was mainly due to the impact of the Mustang Mach-e discontinuation and factory switchover. Production lines at Ford Motor plant are suspended to produce two of the three new 2025 all-electric models, resulting in a shortage of dealer inventory.
Ford Motor Company spokesman Said Deep said Ford dealers are in a dilemma of running out of cars to sell, but the company expects inventory supply of the Mustang Mach-e to gradually pick up in July.
Dealers are desperate for Ford to fix software flaws in the Mustang Mach-e. It is reported that the defect may cause the vehicle to fall into a “locked state”, which may trap children or pets in the vehicle. Ford Motor Company says this condition can cause serious injury, especially in a high-temperature confined environment. To this end, Ford Motor Company has recalled about 317,000 Mustang Mach-e units to fix a defect in the electronic door lock control software.
Beau Boeckmann, president of Galpin Motors, one of the largest Ford dealerships in Southern California, said: “The Mustang Mach-e was the sales champion of Ford Motor Company, but now we were forced to stop selling it and suddenly stopped it on the eve of the Memorial Day promotion in the United States, which had a substantial impact on our business. ”
Specifically, in the second quarter of this year, sales of the Ford Mustang Mach-e in the United States decreased by 19.5% year-on-year to 10,178 units; Deliveries of the Ford F-150 Lightning all-electric pickup truck in the United States decreased by 26.1% year-on-year to 5,842 units. In addition, Ford Motor Company sold only 418 E-Transit pure electric vans in the United States in the second quarter, down 88% year-on-year; Among them, the model sold only 97 units in the United States in May.
Commercial BEV sales have shown early potential, but the overall slowdown in sales of BEVs in the U.S. has hindered Ford Motor CompanyelectrificationProcess. Ford Motor Company is currently reshaping its electric vehicle strategy to focus on affordable models under $30,000, which are expected to be available in the U.S. market in 2027.
It is worth noting that Ford is pure electric in the United StatesCar salesThe contraction contrasts sharply with Ford’s overall car sales growth. It is reported that in the second quarter of this year, Ford’s overall vehicle sales in the United States increased by 14.2% year-on-year to 612,095 units, thanks to its “all-employee price promotion policy” boosting demand for the company’s gasoline-powered and hybrid models. However, despite the Ford F-150 Lightning pureSales of the electric pickup Q2 in the United States declined, and sales of the Ford F-series Q2 in the United States still increased by 11.5% year-on-year to 222,459 units, of which the gasoline and hybrid versions of the F-series pickup Q2 sold 216,617 units in the United States. At the same time, sales of Ford’s hybrid model Q2 in the United States also increased by 23.5% year-on-year.
Shares of Ford Motor Company rose 4.8% at 12:29 p.m. New York time on July 1. In the first six months of this year, the company’s stock price has risen by about 10%, outperforming the performance of the S&P 500 index.