All of that would likely assure my speculation to be correct....

It was a manufacturing style that was adopted by US companies from several Japanese counterparts...hailed as a great boon to the industry for saving money and turning production times around quicker. 

But its not a pure Amazon product, from Wikipedia:    

Just in time manufacturing has been around since the 1990s or so. In the US at least, if companies build up a stockpile of parts, they can be taxed on it, which is a deterrent from doing that.    This has happened in the past, just that it gets reported more often now because of the internet.  

Wow, that's tough. Just one fire and suddenly half the auto industry is feeling the impact. It really highlights how delicate the supply chain is, especially when so much aluminum comes from a single source. Ford is definitely going to take the biggest hit, but the others won't escape unscathed either. We can expect rising prices and production delays — it's just bad timing all around.

Through Bezo's sheer arrogance, he will push this to market only to sell it off to a competitor (legacy or otherwise) and take the money and run....maybe VW will step in and buy it to add to the Scout line....if I were a bettin' man, that is where I would place it. 

It’s eye opening just how much of the manufacturing process is just in time parts delivery and any disruption to the supply chain is deadly to companies like Ford.

Same as me?  Did you get the "System off to save battery" message when  you shut it off?

AK, Thx for response.  Vehicle in service 9/23 and currently just turned 18,000m. And as an 82 year old widower, I don't plan my meals for the week 😎...so I'm constantly taking short trips with an occasional 200 mile RT to Cape Cod.  You are probably correct as when I got the Coyote, I hardly ever drove my MKZ and that led to a battery failure at around 60,000-and that was a bitch to change as the negative is tucked under the cowl on drivers side. So I managed to get that changed but like a dummy, I again did not drive it much and it failed to start about two weeks ago. So put the charger on it and got a good ground on the shock tower sparing me the ordeal of dragging the battery out. And very recently a friend of mine has a 22 150 Coyote and he told me his battery suddenly  failed at around 21,000.  What ever happened to the days when your battery would warn you with slow starting for a few days before total failure. I'll put the charger on it tomorrow.   So much for all the relays that are used today??  

I liked it at first, but the appeal wore off fast. Ford talks about customization in one of their CE1 press releases, so its not even like Slate has the market cornered there.