How is Production Doing at Cuautitlan Assembly Plant?

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I haven’t seen any production numbers lately on how the Cuautitlan Plant is doing with numbers of cars produced each week in a while (if it has been reported I apologize for not seeing the post) and was wondering how they’re doing now. With Covid problems and the chip shortage I wonder how much this is affecting them. I read somewhere that Ford is giving this plant priority for chips as they’re producing a car that is in high demand. I know many on the forum have taken delivery or are watching as their cars progress through the transportation process but there are still many of us who haven’t had our cars produced yet and are wondering how the production numbers are progressing each week. Also, is there still a backlog of cars that haven’t been shipped and are still sitting in parking lots around the plant.
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I haven’t seen any production numbers lately on how the Cuautitlan Plant is doing with numbers of cars produced each week in a while (if it has been reported I apologize for not seeing the post) and was wondering how they’re doing now. With Covid problems and the chip shortage I wonder how much this is affecting them. I read somewhere that Ford is giving this plant priority for chips as they’re producing a car that is in high demand. I know many on the forum have taken delivery or are watching as their cars progress through the transportation process but there are still many of us who haven’t had our cars produced yet and are wondering how the production numbers are progressing each week. Also, is there still a backlog of cars that haven’t been shipped and are still sitting in parking lots around the plant.
according to Ford's February 3rd announcement for the January month of production it was 4,250 Mach-e's.
 

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Wow! Assuming 5 day weeks and 8 hour shifts, that’s 212 per day or 26 per hour!
 

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Wow! Assuming 5 day weeks and 8 hour shifts, that’s 212 per day or 26 per hour!
6 days a week at one point to catch up. I do not recall how long that lasted though. And given how thin the supply lines are stretched atm, I’d doubt they’re still doing that.

Nonetheless, those gals and guys have done a tremendous job imo.
 

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Wow! Assuming 5 day weeks and 8 hour shifts, that’s 212 per day or 26 per hour!
For comparison, the F-150 plants in Dearborn and Kansas City runs 16 hours a day, 6 days a week at 60+ jobs/hour and even then they need overtime to meet demand... 26 per hour is probably a record for slowest line speed from a mainstream automaker. I have to believe that's battery supply limited or due to the launch ramp up.
 


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For comparison, the F-150 plants in Dearborn and Kansas City runs 16 hours a day, 6 days a week at 60+ jobs/hour and even then they need overtime to meet demand... 26 per hour is probably a record for slowest line speed from a mainstream automaker. I have to believe that's battery supply limited or due to the launch ramp up.
Mach E production pales to that number. Battery supply, chip shortage or the ramp up isn’t happening. Since I am waiting for my car I of course would like to see a higher number per hour.
 

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Mach E production pales to that number. Battery supply, chip shortage or the ramp up isn’t happening. Since I am waiting for my car I of course would like to see a higher number per hour.
There's a part of me that wonders if they're holding it back so it doesn't outsell the gas "real" Mustang.

All the "50,000/year" talk is troubling. This could be a 300,000/yr car if they wanted it to be (and sourced the parts accordingly).
 

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There's a part of me that wonders if they're holding it back so it doesn't outsell the gas "real" Mustang.

All the "50,000/year" talk is troubling. This could be a 300,000/yr car if they wanted it to be (and sourced the parts accordingly).
I believe they were only able to get 50,000 batteries for the first year. I have a feeling they would be making more if they could.
 
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6 days a week at one point to catch up. I do not recall how long that lasted though. And given how thin the supply lines are stretched atm, I’d doubt they’re still doing that.

Nonetheless, those gals and guys have done a tremendous job imo.
How about the transportation issue and the number of cars stored in plant parking lots waiting to be delivered? Is this still a bottleneck in the production process?
 

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There's a part of me that wonders if they're holding it back so it doesn't outsell the gas "real" Mustang.

All the "50,000/year" talk is troubling. This could be a 300,000/yr car if they wanted it to be (and sourced the parts accordingly).
Ford never intended to sell more than 50,000 Mach-e’s in the first year. That was stated during the launch promotion. 50,000 was chosen because that’s the number of batteries they could obtain. There’s no hidden agenda, there was a worldwide battery shortage before the pandemic, and it’s worse now. They’ll build and sell more when the supply chain eases up.
 
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There's a part of me that wonders if they're holding it back so it doesn't outsell the gas "real" Mustang.

All the "50,000/year" talk is troubling. This could be a 300,000/yr car if they wanted it to be (and sourced the parts accordingly).
Battery supply is what limited the first year to 50,000. It takes new battery plants, more lithium, boron, nickel etc. which are mined from ore. It's not like making more widgets. Battery supply somewhat limits the whole BEV industry right now. I'm sure Ford is working on it's future battery supply.
 

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There's a part of me that wonders if they're holding it back so it doesn't outsell the gas "real" Mustang.

All the "50,000/year" talk is troubling. This could be a 300,000/yr car if they wanted it to be (and sourced the parts accordingly).
I doubt the Cuatitlan plant is capacitized for 300k/yr. Not sure what its max yearly output was, when it made the Fiesta, but I doubt it ever produced 300k in a year.
 

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6 days a week at one point to catch up. I do not recall how long that lasted though. And given how thin the supply lines are stretched atm, I’d doubt they’re still doing that.

Nonetheless, those gals and guys have done a tremendous job imo.
I was at this plant when the Fiesta was launching in 2010, and the guys and gals indeed were great to work with .
 

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Numbers are made public monthly. February data will likely be released w/o Mar 7.
 
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Numbers are made public monthly. February data will likely be released w/o Mar 7.
Where are they published? Ford Authority?
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