Ford Has Stopped Taking Reservations For 1st Generation Lightning 150's

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Ford has officially stopped taking reservations for the 2022 Ford Lightning 150's as the demand has reached 200,000. Production of the Lightning is continuing and is expected to start shipping them out the first half of 2022. These reservations for the Lightning are $100 refundable deposits and started back in May of 2021.

Basically, what this means if one has not made a reservation, they can still try and get the Lightning from a dealer or order from the company's website. Ford does not know how many Lightnings they will make in 2022, but plan make as many as 80k in 2023. The company has publicly said it wants to build that many in 2024 after originally targeting just 40,000 annually and has been hiring new workers to handle the demand.

The F-150 Lightning starts at $40,000, but can more than double depending on all the upgrades the customer decides to add. The base model has about a charge range of 230 mile and has a bare bone package which includes a 12 inch touchscreen display that runs Sync 4. The higher models will come with a 14.5 inch vertical touchscreen which comes from the Mustang Mach-E and will have a extended battery range that can push the range to up to 300 miles on a single fully charge. Towing capacity ranges between 7,700 and 10,000 pounds, depending on the configuration.

Reservation holders can start specifying their Lightning starting in sometime in January 2022, just a few months before the plan of the release of the truck. As long as they start shipping on time, Ford will join Rivian and GMC as the only automakers with an electric pickup truck on the market. Tesla’s long-promised Cybertruck has been pushed to next year, and CEO Elon Musk has said his company won’t start making them in large volumes until 2023.
 
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