There Is A Purpose There Is Solely One Ford F-150 Lightning In Denmark So Far – CleanTechnica – TechnoNews

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Just lately I had the pleasure of photographing a 1913 Detroit Electrical being towed to an exhibition by a Ford F-150 Lightning, and it was fairly the sight!

I’ve lined the Detroit Electrical intimately earlier, so I requested the proprietor of the F-150 Lightning how on the earth it was doable to have this automobile registered in Denmark? I imply, I’ve heard a number of have made it to Norway, however Denmark, with the foundations we now have? No approach…

Kim Hansen of KH-auto fills me in with the excruciating particulars, and I’ll attempt to convey the process beneath.

It’s fairly a problem to import a automobile with out EU code approval. In case you purchase a brand new one, proper out of the manufacturing unit, it’s important to have a intermediary register it to get an American registration certificates (it is vitally uphill or nearly unimaginable to do that outdoors the USA).

In case you purchase a used one, it’s essential to have the earlier registration certificates with you. The tax authorities in Denmark will demand that.

Then you definitely ship it dwelling in a container (a Ford F-150 requires a 40-foot container, as a result of it’s simply over 6 meters lengthy with tow hitch and fenders) with insurance coverage on the freight. Not all transport firms can ship automobiles out of the USA. However USA-shipping may help you.

In case you want the automobile with what in Denmark we name “yellow plates,” that means it’s meant for work and just for a driver and one passenger, it’s essential to have a registered firm and be authorized to import items from outdoors the EU.

When the automobile arrives in Denmark, it have to be authorized, customs authorized, registration certificates paid, and registered.

You could use a Danish knowledge declaration, and on the Ford F-150 Lightning specifically, solely E-Automobile within the Danish metropolis of Randers has the appropriate permissions to get this executed.

Driving on Danish roads as a brand new automobile, the Ford F-150 Lightning will need to have yellow/amber flip indicators from the rear. It’s not precisely simple to make this occur, as a result of the hind lights are can-bus managed. A pc in every rear gentle housing management the blinking with knowledge communication to the LED lights.

Kim had E-car determine this out for him. The taillights needed to be despatched to Germany to have the housing opened with warmth and a yellow LED gentle supply put in inside, after which glued again collectively once more.

Beneath the automobile there are 2 packing containers that break up the sign to the lights and ship energy to the flip indicators. E-Automobile actually struggled with this in order that they needed to attempt a number of occasions earlier than it labored.

To make the flip indicators work value about DKK 20,000 together with VAT ($3,000).

To have the ability to tow, the tow hitch have to be EU authorized. The unique Ford hitch from the manufacturing unit within the USA can’t be authorized. The Danish firm Brink makes one which works.

The 26-inch wheels fitted on Kim’s F-150 can solely be purchased within the USA. They’re larger than the unique ones, so the entrance internal fenders should be modified in order that they don’t scrape. They’re 4% bigger in roll circumference. Most by legislation in Denmark is +5%. The big rims fitted with the large tires (325/35R26) protrude 2 cm past the bodywork, however fortunately a set of authentic Ford F-150 extenders match completely.

So there you could have it. I’m tempted to say: Don’t do that at dwelling (within the EU), however in the event you do, remember you have to a variety of endurance. A Cybertruck, you ask? Nicely, on that factor, there are issues like steer-by-wire and sharp edges, so it may be an entire lot simpler to simply wait.

Kim Hansen didn’t need to wait on the F-150 Lightning, so he made the guess, and he was victorious. The automobile is used each day in his auto store, and it provides him the inexperienced profile he was searching for, and clients are genuinely shocked to search out it’s electrical.

Kim’s Ford F-150 Lightning is the Lariat trim, with the 131 kWh battery pack. His expertise up to now by way of actual world vary is about 400 km (250 miles) with regular motorway velocity, and about 300 km (190 miles) towing a automobile at freeway velocity (just like the Detroit Electrical).