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

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Not too long ago 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 coated the Detroit Electrical intimately earlier, so I requested the proprietor of the F-150 Lightning how on the planet it was attainable to have this automobile registered in Denmark? I imply, I’ve heard a couple of have made it to Norway, however Denmark, with the principles we have now? No means…

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

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 facility, you need to have a intermediary register it to get an American registration certificates (it is rather uphill or nearly unattainable to do that exterior the USA).

In case you purchase a used one, you should have the earlier registration certificates with you. The tax authorities in Denmark will demand that.

Then you definately ship it residence 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 corporations can ship automobiles out of the USA. However USA-shipping might help you.

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

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

You have to use a Danish information declaration, and on the Ford F-150 Lightning particularly, solely E-Automobile within the Danish metropolis of Randers has the correct permissions to get this accomplished.

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

Below the automobile there are 2 packing containers that cut up the sign to the lights and ship energy to the flip alerts. E-Automobile actually struggled with this so that they needed to attempt a number of instances earlier than it labored.

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

To have the ability to tow, the tow hitch have to be EU permitted. The unique Ford hitch from the manufacturing facility within the USA can’t be permitted. 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 interior fenders have to be modified in order that they don’t scrape. They’re 4% bigger in roll circumference. Most by regulation 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 unique Ford F-150 extenders match completely.

So there you may have it. I’m tempted to say: Don’t do this at residence (within the EU), however for those who do, bear in mind you’ll need loads of persistence. 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 wager, and he was victorious. The automobile is used day by day in his auto store, and it provides him the inexperienced profile he was in search of, and clients are genuinely stunned to seek 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 when it comes to 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).