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Mach E: Your Reservation does not guarantee a set price for the Vehicle
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TT97
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By law, Ford can't bypass their dealers, but if they are serious in selling the Mach E, they have plenty of avenues to incentivize both dealers and consumers.
Asking dealers to install a charging station is not a large investment (and may actually receive government rebates on them), the issue is to convince them to service EV vehicles.
Asking dealers to install a charging station is not a large investment (and may actually receive government rebates on them), the issue is to convince them to service EV vehicles.
Eno Deb
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I doubt that a dealership would send employees through this training and then not plan to sell and service EVs. Ford will probably offer some kind of incentive to the dealerships.
Thats what i said. Dealers have to step up on their own. Once they make that decision then they will send an employee to get trained.
Its just like when ford told dealerships if they wanted to sell the Ford GT they had to upgrade their service department equipment. Just to be able to service a car the proper way.
Not everyone signed up for that.
Eno Deb
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I don't think the number in the press release came out of thin air. Those dealerships have probably committed. Anyway, they will have far better service access nationwide than Tesla currently has. I think we are seeing the limits of Tesla's keep-everything-in-house approach. It just doesn't scale very well.
The dealerships were moving to installing more than one charger because corporate Ford is moving in that direction including the F150. Long before the Mach E was shown, my small town dealership was doing the installation permits and other items needed for this.
It's a clean sheet design ,as far as I am aware. They had a small, dedicated team.
A British YouTuber, Electric Vehicle Man, was at the launch event and I believe he mentioned it.
The Mach E was not a gour or five year development. It started from the ground up after the current CEO was put into place. A team Edison was created and you had a 16 month development timeframes. This is a new design, skateboard platform.
M3BlueGeorgia
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I'd heard he changed the project from what was going to be a compliance vehicle, but it is not clear how much was really changed. Still the result of a 5 year project, but probably with a big "come to Jesus" meeting in the timeframe you quoted.
You are mistaken. The Mach e was not a 5 year project. Long before the mach e was announced, the current ceo stated he ripped up and stopped the previous ev work. The compliance term was only introduced to the public at the mach e event last week. He completely reorganized how this was developed and how it developed.
The order bank opens in March 2020. Arriving at the dealerships in October/November 2020.
Well, I guess that’s what Ford has to write in the disclaimer, otherwise you could potentially sue them, if the dealer hikes up the price.
Ford can’t sell you any vehicle, so in the end you will have to buy it from a Ford dealer. But I wouldn’t worry too much. You can potentially buy from any Ford dealer, so if your dealer hikes up the price, then just take your business to the next one.
Surely you won’t get great rebates for being first, but that’s the same with any car, even a Tesla.
Ford can’t sell you any vehicle, so in the end you will have to buy it from a Ford dealer. But I wouldn’t worry too much. You can potentially buy from any Ford dealer, so if your dealer hikes up the price, then just take your business to the next one.
Surely you won’t get great rebates for being first, but that’s the same with any car, even a Tesla.
I was very surprised to receive a call from my dealer yesterday to let me know that they’d have a Mach E on display for a few hours today. Apparently Ford is showing their 4 prototypes at select dealerships. Although I didn’t order this color, I thought it looked amazing in person. The car appears roomy inside with lots of headroom, but sits pretty low (much more crossover than SUV). I chatted with my dealer about pricing and for what it’s worth they said they’ll be selling them at MSRP without any markup, so that put me at ease since I’m not one who would ever pay more than sticker. Overall very excited to pick mine up next year!
seattlite2004
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Give it a few months after release....just mention Model Y and/or Cybertruck and negotiate some incentives. Heck, even Tesla was selling inventory cars below their list prices.
willow_hiller
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If the Mach E is released in quantities similar to the Hyundai Kona EV, dealerships will quickly learn they can charge a premium. The Kona was marked up $2-$5k over MSRP just because it was relatively hard to find.
The irony is that dealerships seem to understand EV demand, while the OEMs never supply enough.
