Ford stops taking orders on the lightening

Lantley wrote:
JRscooby wrote:
"But my point of mentioning my old training is to point out that training is not a big issue. Likely anybody that retires out of shop will be replaced by a younger person that has been trained on the EV."

Your making my point. Do we have to wait for the current mehanics to retire?
Can we train the current mechnics or do we need to find a new generation of EV capable mechanics? How long will the mechanic turnover take?
How will the lack of trained mechanics impact the roll out of EV's by legacy ICE car builders? In short does Ford have enough trained staff in place to handle the F-150 lightning roll out?
Hopefully they have more EV mechanics than diesel mechanics.
None of my local dealerships have enough knowledgeable diesel mechanics,hopefully they will do better with EV.

If Ford - or any other EV manufacturer - wants to succeed, they will have to put in place techs that can do the job and the infrastructure for them to do it. They trained people to build them, they can train people to work on them. I am certain it's in the plan and likely already happening. Frankly I don't see this as a big deal. Most companies are constantly providing training for new tech. You can't survive and compete if you don't have it in your plan. Who hasn't had a job where you weren't always learning something new -software, building materials, tools, hardware, etc. This occurs in every job.

Legacy ICE mechanics aren't going away on day one. It will be years before we see a major decline in the need for ICE mechanics. And smart independent shops will do themselves a favor by hiring/training their own EV techs. And smart ICE mechanics will learn how to work on EV's.

I don't know a thing about EV's but superficially the systems look much simpler than the myriad of ICE configurations and parts that exist today.

And the entire vehicle isn't changing. Lots of mechanical parts of these cars are still the same principal.