Ford Begins 2022 With Record Electrified Vehicle and SUV Sales
Ford hit an all-time record for both new retail vehicle orders and for filling retail orders in January. Ford took in over 90,000 new vehicle orders in January – up 71,000 from a year ago and up 20,000 from December. Vehicles are moving off dealer lots at a record pace, as 37 percent of Ford’s retail sales in January came from previously placed customer orders.
On the strength of new must-have products, Ford brand sales were up 1.4 percent. The overall industry declined 9.0 percent. Overall, Ford and Lincoln total share in January was 13.9 percent – up 1.3 percentage points from a year ago.
Electrified vehicle sales had their best start ever, with record January sales. Ford electrified vehicle sales in January grew almost 4 times faster than the overall electrified segment. With a total of 13,169 vehicles sold, Ford electrified vehicles were up 167.2
percent, with share up 5.0 points to 10.9 percent of segment.
Sparking additional momentum this year, more than 300 small, medium and large business customers place orders for 10,000 all electric E-Transit vans; Walmart to take delivery of 1,100 E-Transits.
Ford pickups, including F-Series, Ranger and Maverick, totaled 62,293 sales, outselling GM’s entire pickup truck line in January. FSeries sales in January totaled 50,543. Overall F-Series share increased 0.5 percentage points over last year and begins the year as America’s best-selling pickup.
Ford brand SUV sales totaled 60,382 in January – giving Ford a record SUV start to the 2022 calendar year. New SUV products, including Bronco, Bronco Sport and Mustang Mach-E, added 16,692 vehicles to the SUV sales portfolio, while Escape sales posted a strong gain of 17.2 percent over a year ago.
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