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"How" is way above my pay grade. That's what Farley gets the big bucks for. Maybe he should pay more attention to his customers than his race car. Tesla pulled people off the factory floor for overtime to hand deliver cars when they needed to. Times are not normal, maybe Ford needs to think...

You will not get a VIN until you are scheduled for production, but you should have received an order number from your dealer. You should also have received confirmation emails from Ford and also emails at 45 day intervals stating that your order is important to them. If you have not gotten...

My dealer said 1.5 hours for prep and that I would get number one priority because my truck has been so delayed. I feel so much better now.....................

It was shipped ON A RAIL CAR on December 6th. The problem in my case is not getting it onto the rail car, it is getting off and then to the dealer. Ford cannot do much with the railroads, but I think they could find a way to make the trucking from rail yard to dealer go faster. It is in their...

I'm aware of all that. And to be honest, not complaining. Mine is built and there are people who ordered way before me that don't have theirs yet. But I disagree Ford has zero control. Well, they have zero control as things are currently organized. They need to change that if they are going...

Honestly from a business perspective this is outright stupidity. Who builds something and then lets it sit for months when they have customers waiting? They have an enormous amount of money tied up in inventory that is sitting at a rail yard. Getting bird droppings and hail and what not on...

Agree 100% Built 12/3/22 Shipped 12/6/22 Crossed into USA 12/9/22 Arrived at Portland rail yard (officially) 2/2/22. That is when the dealer noticed it was there, could have been there sooner. Still waiting. 82 days in transit. When sales were all to dealers for lot sales it really didn't...

Built 12/3 Shipped 12/6 Crossed into US 12/9 On rail car for 81 days so far. Dealer says it is sitting at Portland railyard. No other information available.

Difficult or impossible to determine a pattern. I am: Built 12/3 Shipped 12/6 Crossed into USA 12/9 Still waiting, now 80 days on a rail car. Dealer says it is sitting in Portland, Oregon waiting for a truck to haul it north.

You prove it can be done! Takes a little more thought and creativity than just pulling into whichever gas station is closest, but it can be done. Just got back from a road trip and hotel stay. Got to the hotel at 20% charge and they had two Tesla destination chargers and two J1772 from...

100% agree. Unless you have a non-transportation motive like "going green" or whatever, every person needs to do the math for their specific use case. I believe within 5 years that the math will work out that EV's are cheaper to operate for a majority. But it will be a long time before that...

Fair enough. And I'm not trying to convince you of anything. You don't want an EV, that's your right. Just keep an open mind and don't parrot the oil company propaganda. They have a vested interest in making people think EV's are "bad" and "oil" is good. When you read one of those think...

I have. Perhaps you should yourself instead of relying on oil company propaganda. Saying that mining Cobalt, Nickel and Lithium are worse than mining coal, drilling for oil or fracking for natural gas is a bit silly don't you think? I grew up in coal country, have had relatives die of black...

That is likely the single biggest problem that needs solved. I've seen several innovative ideas but so far nothing that can been rolled out on a large scale. In England they are trialing adding charging ports on electric poles in neighborhoods. They could also be added as part of sidewalk...

I see that argument put forth by oil and coal interests all the time. Companies will say anything to prevent their business from going away. I grew up in coal mining country. It would take a lot to convince me anything is worse than that.

Not true at all. Just finished a round trip Bellingham to Mt Hood Oregon and back. Charged twice down and once back. Just about the same as with our Highlander. Took longer to charge than it did to gas up but we did the charging at our lunch stop so net time was the same. I have waited in...

Exactly. We just bought a 2023 VW ID.4. In 3 to 5 years it will be obsolete and we will upgrade. Knew that going in. We expected to trade her Highlander in on an EV in 2025. But some guy in a Corolla decided he knew how to drive in 6" of snow on the interstate when he really didn't. After...

No, according to the dealer tracker it is in Portland, Oregon

Not sure there is ever going to be any money on repairs with the battery. I suspect it will get recycled just like they do with lead acid. Replacement, yeah maybe. But if the warranty is 8 years and most batteries will likely last 10 to 15 (at least) it's a non-issue right now. Very, very...

Thanks I'll try that. I am just north of Seattle so not that difficult. I am becoming concerned something is wrong.