Ford Motor Co. will double annual production of the F-150 Lightning in Dearborn once again, the automaker said Tuesday. The first group of reservation holders are being invited to begin placing orders for the electric pickup truck this Thursday.
Increasing production will bring the output to 150,000 vehicles per year at the Rouge Electric Vehicle Center in the Blue Oval’s hometown after deliveries begin in the spring. The announcement comes as the company has received nearly 200,000 reservations for the first electric version of America’s most popular vehicle and as General Motors is set to reveal virtually its all-electric Chevrolet Silverado today at the CES trade show in Las Vegas.
“Our teams are working hard and creatively to break production constraints in order to get more F-150 Lightning trucks into the hands of our customers,” Kumar Galhotra, Ford’s president of the Americas and international markets group, said in a statement. “The reality is clear: People are ready for an all-electric F-150, and Ford is pulling out all the stops to scale our operations and increase production capacity.”
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