Ford Latest Automaker to Shut North American Plants on US Winter Weather

Ford Latest Automaker to Shut North American Plants on US Winter Weather
Workers assemble a Ford truck at the new Louisville Ford truck plant in Louisville, Kentucky, U.S. on September 30, 2016. Bryan Woolston/Reuters
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MEXICO CITY—Freezing weather that interrupted gas supplies in the southern United States and Mexico was wreaking havoc on Thursday with car manufacturing plants on both sides of the border, with Ford saying several of its assembly plants have been shut.

The cold snap has overwhelmed Texas’s power grid, while natural gas supplies to Mexico from Texas were interrupted, leaving millions without power in Mexico’s industrial northern states earlier in the week.