The national waitlist for the 2022 F-150 Lightning, Ford’s all-electric pickup truck, already has more than 200,000 reservations, enough to sell out three years’ worth of production.

Buoyed by federal and state incentives and an influx of new models by major manufacturers, interest in electric vehicles has moved beyond the early adoption stage and is nearing mainstream acceptance…

But that acceptance has been stymied by supply chain shortages that continue to delay production of electric and conventional vehicles alike, stalling the rate of vehicle production at well below pre-pandemic levels…

The production shortage is in part due to a continued global dearth of semiconductors used to manufacture microchips, which control everything from engine functions to voice command systems in new vehicles…

Though all cars use microchips, electric vehicles use about twice as many as internal combustion vehicles.