June 20, 2022

Source: NPR

Excerpt:

Nick Schmidt was at home when he got the call he had been waiting on for months.

Schmidt had ordered the electric version of Ford’s F-150 as soon as it was announced in May of last year. And more than a year later, his F-150 Lightning was finally ready to be picked up.

“When the dealership called me, they were just as excited as I was,” Schmidt says. “I remember coming up to the parking lot, and they were all, like, gathered around. Everybody came outside.”

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