Ford model reviews 167,572 automobile gross sales in October within the U.S. (down 3.3% year-over-year) and 1,499,114 year-to-date (down 6.4%). The speed of decline is now a lot decrease than earlier than, so the semiconductor provide constraints most likely eased.

One other bgt of ood information is that gross sales of the electrified automobiles – xEVs (BEVs, PHEVs, HEVs) elevated 195% year-over-year to a brand new all-time month-to-month document of 14,062.

The corporate fortunately notes additionally over 160,000 Ford F-150 Lightning reservations and that the Ford E-Transit is “offered out.”

“October was an electrified automobile gross sales document for Ford, with 14,062 electrified automobiles offered –up 195 p.c over final yr. Ford’s E-Transit is offered out and the electrical F-150 Lightning has greater than 160,000 reservations.”

Ford Mustang Mach-E gross sales in October amounted to 2,848 (1.7% of Ford’s whole consequence), which is the third greatest month-to-month consequence to date. 12 months-to-date, Ford offered 21,703 models.

“Mustang Mach-E retail gross sales jumped 76.9 percentin October, with 21,703 automobiles offered yr so far. Over 90 p.c of Mustang Mach-E homeowners say they might suggest a Mustang Mach-E to different clients. To this point, Mustang Mach-E ranks second in gross sales within the full-electric SUV phase, behind Tesla’s Mannequin Y.”

The gross inventory of Mach-E is at about 5,600 within the U.S. (at dealerships and in transport, we assume). That is about 600 greater than in September.

Sadly, Ford doesn’t report gross sales of different plug-in fashions, just like the Ford Escape PHEV. Lincoln’s PHEV gross sales weren’t revealed both.

Manufacturing of the Ford Mustang Mach-E for the worldwide markets, at 3,790, was considerably decrease than in earlier months. Hopefully it is a short-term slowdown.

Up to now this yr, over 55,000 models have been produced (over 61,000 cumulatively).

The distinction between the variety of vehicles produced and gross sales within the U.S. signifies that a lot of the vehicles have been despatched to Europe.