Ford Mustang Mach-E Deliveries Delayed—but Not for US Market
The Mustang Mach-E should still arrive in America’s driveways before the end of the year, but UK and European buyers will have to wait until 2021
If you’ve preordered a Ford Mustang Mach-E, and you live on the other side of the Atlantic, you’re going to have to wait a little longer than expected to get behind the wheel of your new EV: As initially reported by a U.K.-based user of the Mach-E Forum, the automaker is notifying customers that their vehicles will not be available until early 2021. Ford France followed suit.
Previously, deliveries were expected to begin later in 2020. But, as you already guessed, coronavirus threw a wrench in everyone’s plans, and Ford is no different. Notably, we’re still waiting to even so much as see the new Ford Bronco (officially).
The good news for Mach-E buyers in the United States is that Ford still expects to begin deliveries here “late this year,” according to a Ford representative. It helps that the vehicles will be built on this continent (though that will be at a facility in Mexico, not the Flat Rock, Michigan, factory that builds internal combustion-powered Mustangs); the reason for the delayed rollout in the U.K. and Europe, Ford tells us, has to do in part with the time it will take to ship the newly completed EVs across the Atlantic.
We’re eager to check out the Mach-E as soon as we’re able. Ford’s decision to attach it to the Mustang name and adorn it with the pony logo has caused no small amount of controversy—which might have been part of the plan—but that hasn’t stopped preorders for First Editions from being totally booked
Whatever it’s called, the specs alone make it worth a serious look: With up to 300 miles of range, all-wheel- and rear-wheel-drive variants and a price starting at under $45,000, it may be one of the first cars on the market that can seriously take on the Tesla Model 3. And that’s even when you take this new, though probably inevitable, delay into account.