DETROIT — Ford Motor Co. on Wednesday knowledgeable workers that it might be extending downtime for the nation’s bestselling automobile, the F-150 pickup, and scaling again manufacturing of a few of its largest, most-profitable fashions due to the continued semiconductor scarcity.

The automaker mentioned in a memo that the truck facet of its Kansas Metropolis Meeting Plant, the place employees construct the F-150 pickup, will stay down the week of Sept. 6. Truck manufacturing there was idled the previous two weeks.

Ford’s different F-150 plant, Dearborn Truck, will stay on one shift the week of Sept. 6 after falling to 1 shift this week.

Kentucky Truck, which builds Tremendous Responsibility pickups alongside Expedition and Navigator SUVs, will fall to 2 shifts the weeks of Sept. 6 and Sept. 13.

The F-150 is the top-selling truck in Canada.

“Our groups are taking advantage of our out there semiconductor allocation, discovering distinctive options to offer as many high-quality automobiles as attainable to our sellers and clients,” John Savona, Ford’s vice chairman of producing and labor affairs, mentioned within the memo.