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When can I order a 2023 Lightning? Thanks to folks at the Lightning Owners forum, we now have more information on the matter. According to Ford's Fleet Distribution News Bulletin, the first units of the 2023 F-150 Lightning will roll off the production line on October 10, 2022. The order book opening for the 2023 model date is still marked as TBD.May 19, 2022 10/09/2022 - 2022MY Balance Out Date. TBD - 2023MY Order Bank Open Date. 08/04/2022 - 2023MY Scheduling Begins. 10/10/2022 - 2023MY Job #1 Date.

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It could just be a tool box, but a patent filing by Ford from two years ago leads us to believe otherwise. Our spies just sent us these photos showing the Ford F-150 Lightnings still being tested by the manufacturer with a box in their bed. Now that could just be tool box, which is probably what they want us to believe if it’s actually the removable range extender that the manufacturer applied for a patent on two years ago. And even back then, in the patent drawings, it still looked like a tool box, and it was located in the same place as on the test vehicles in the photos, which is why we think this may be Ford testing the range extender and not a mere box of tools. It does appear a bit bigger than in the patent, taking up around a...