In cursory: Ford started delivering its Mustang Mach-E to early on adopters in December. If you were one of the first to throw downward for the electric crossover SUV but oasis't yet taken delivery, you might want to double check your estimated commitment date.

Electrek recently received several messages from Ford customers who were notified that their pending delivery had been delayed. The publication reached out to the American automaker, who confirmed that several hundred Mustang Mach-E models were indeed delayed in club to perform additional quality checks.

Ford's spokesperson didn't mention the nature of the additional quality checks.

Merely final month, the global manager of Ford's bombardment electric vehicle partitioning, Darren Palmer, was telling Autoblog how some shoppers upward to this betoken accept had to contend with certain quality control issues when buying an EV.

With Ford, such things won't be a concern, the executive suggested. "The doors fit properly, the plastics and other materials colour-match, the bumpers don't autumn off, the roof doesn't come off when you wash it, the door handles don't get stuck in cold weather," he said. Here'south to hoping that promise pans out.

Ford introduced the Mustang Mach-E in 2022. The EV acquired quite a stir among purists who questioned why Ford adopted the Mustang name for an electric SUV, but that didn't seem to hamper sales as Ford had no trouble selling pre-orders in the Us.

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