Actual world sturdiness and excessive mileage testing of Ford Motor Firm's F-150 Lightning prototypes is already underway and the primary deliveries of the 2022 F-150 Lightning are slated to start this spring.

When will you get your 2022 Ford F-150 Lightning? Ford has launched new data detailing the ordering course of and the way lengthy it expects to take for consumers to have keys to their new all-electric full-size truck hand.

At the moment, manufacturing capability stands at 75,000 F-150 Lightning fashions per 12 months at Ford's Rouge Electrical Automobile Middle in Dearborn, Michigan. A Ford consultant confirmed to Newsweek that the corporate can be slowly ramping up manufacturing to that 75,000 mark. That is not an uncommon course of for a totally new mannequin.

For the 2023 mannequin 12 months, Ford is concentrating on roughly 80,000 items per 12 months capability.

Because the 2024 mannequin 12 months nears, in mid-2023, Ford expects to hit the introduced 150,000 per 12 months F-150 Lightning manufacturing degree.

There are already 200,000 F-150 Lightning reservations. That signifies that many present reservation holders may very well be ready till 2024 to obtain their new truck. Nonetheless, timelines could also be shortened if numerous reservation holders determine to not convert to orders.

Ford will start accepting the primary wave of reservation converts on Thursday. Extra reservation holders can be invited to position their orders in phases over the subsequent few months.

2022 Ford F-150 Lightning Production
A 2022 Ford F-150 Lightning pre-production unit is labored on on the Rouge Electrical Automobile Middle in Dearborn, Michigan.Ford Motor Firm

Invites can be despatched by way of e mail to the reservation holder. Clients may also obtain discover to transform by way of their Ford.com account.

Preliminary reservation conversions can be for 2022 mannequin 12 months automobiles. As soon as that run is out, Ford will open order banks for mannequin 12 months 2023 vehicles.

"With almost 200,000 reservations, our groups are working exhausting and creatively to interrupt manufacturing constraints as a way to get extra F-150 Lightning vehicles into the arms of our clients," mentioned Kumar Galhotra, president of The People and Worldwide Markets Group, Ford Motor Firm. "The fact is evident: individuals are prepared for an all-electric F-150 and Ford is pulling out all of the stops to scale our operations and improve manufacturing capability."

Ford confirmed to Newsweek that 2022 mannequin 12 months manufacturing will finish close to the tip of 2022, comparable in style to how the corporate rolls out different new automobiles.

Ford's spring 2022 goal covers numerous months, nearly all the first half of the 12 months. The corporate will proceed to replace those that positioned orders of the construct progress of their automobile in the identical style it does with Bronco orders.

The Ford F-Sequence has been America's best-selling truck model for the final 47 years. Regardless of its recognition, the F-150 Lightning is drawing in new clients to the model. Greater than 75 % of reservation holders are new to the corporate's consumer checklist.

The 2022 Ford F-150 Lightning has a beginning producer's instructed retail worth (MSRP) of $39,974 earlier than any obtainable tax incentives.