<p class="ingestion featured-caption">Ford is aiming is to build 150,000 F-150 Lightnings a year at its revamped Dearborn, Michigan factory, double its initial target.Nora Naughton</p><ul class="summary-list"><li>Ford is aiming to build 150,000 F-150 Lightnings a year at its revamped factory.</li><li>The EV assembly line is more spacious and less cluttered than the typical car factory.</li></ul><p>Ford is already <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/the-electric-f-150-is-such-a-hit-fords-ramping-up-production-2022-12">cranking out all-electric F-150 Lightnings</a> on three shifts at its Rouge Electric Vehicle Center in Dearborn, Michigan as the company continues expansion work at the factory.</p><p>Ford added the new production shift in November at the same time it completed two large additions to the Dearborn, Michigan factory. It increased square-footage by some 300,000 square feet, plant manager Corey Williams told reporters earlier this month.</p><p>Ford's aim is to build 150,000 F-150 Lightnings a year at the factory, double its initial production target. The car company upped its production targets after it had to cap reservations for the truck at 200,000 late last year.</p><p>Through November, Ford had sold 13,258 F-150 Lightning trucks.</p><p>At the production launch of the Lightning this spring, CEO Jim Farley said he wants to <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/ford-is-already-working-on-another-electric-pickup-truck-2022-4">overtake Tesla</a> as the number one seller of electric cars in the US.</p><p>The Lightning is a key part of Ford's stated global EV sales target of 600,000 vehicles by the end of next year. The expansions at the Rouge Electric Vehicle Center are just part of a <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/ford-ceo-farley-hints-at-workforce-restructuring-electric-vehicle-business-2022-2" rel>$30 billion shift toward electric vehicles</a>. Earlier this year, Ford <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/why-ceo-jim-farley-isnt-spinning-off-fords-ev-business-2022-3" rel>restructured its business</a> to place more focus on its electric division, now called Ford Model e. </p><p>To see just how Ford is building that future, Insider toured the F-150 plant. Here's what we saw.</p>