Suppose you have been curious about when the electric car revolution will begin. In that case, your wait is over: Ford will close its online reservation system for the planned 2022 Ford F-150 Lightning electric pickup truck after receiving over 200,000 deposits. Indeed, demand has been so robust that Ford said on January 4 that it would roughly treble its Lightning truck manufacturing capacity from 80,000 to 150,000 vehicles per year. However, even at that rate, the order pool indicates that the business has already secured enough orders for more than a year's supply of vehicles.
Through the closure of online bookings, Ford will now focus exclusively on turning those reservations into actual orders with dealers and delivering those orders beginning later this year. Additionally, it demonstrates significant demand for electric pickup trucks, an industry area that most analysts said would be the last to adopt electricity as a power source. If Ford's success with the Lightning is any indicator, truck owners throughout the country are prepared to make the conversion to electric cars, implying that the entire market may go in that way much more quickly than previously anticipated.
