I was able to order in wave 1, my dealership has accepted the order, the status on ford.com still doesn’t have a green check next to scheduled for production. Anyone in wave 1 see their build scheduled for production yet?
Nah. They arent scheduled to even start production until late Summer early Fall. They wont give any indication until most of the Waves are completed most likely.
Per Friday's FDNB (Fleet Distribution News Bulletin), the initial timetable information has been released for the 2022 F-150 BEV Lightning 01/05/2022 - 2022MY Order Bank Open Date TBD - 2022MY Scheduling Begins TBD - 2022MY Job #1 Production Date "SCHEDULING" vs "PRODUCTION" Week explained ...
Estimates of MY2022 production numbers are all over the place but center around 20,000 units during only 1/2 year of production. Since the Mustang Mach E production was around 60,000 in an overly-long first year (September 2020-December 2021), it sounds like the line rate of the two will be...
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These will not necessarily be Wave 1 as we don't know if they will do initial customer runs by trim or mix the trims to optimize the line. Ford also may time their scheduling to efficiently fill trucks or train cars for delivery. Such coordination based on delivery will likely depend on other Rouge plant production schedules as I expect them to be mixed in with other vehicles from the plant.