Dag Ødegaard from Lier, Norway, fell in love with Ford F-Collection vehicles whereas touring within the U.S. Now, he’s the primary Norwegian buyer to take residence an electrical Ford F-150 Lightning. 

It’s becoming that Ødegaard is the primary in Norway with the truck, given his connections to America. His spouse is from Texas and he owns a retailer in Norway that sells American grill and barbecue tools. 

“It is a dream car for us particularly as we love the USA and Texas a lot,” Ødegaard mentioned. “Lastly we don’t must drive two automobiles to move two teenage kids, my spouse and all our baggage to our cabin in [the ski town of] Trysil. Particularly, the truth that it has 5 seats implies that we are able to lastly afford to purchase ourselves a correct household pickup, which can also be totally electrical and filled with new know-how. It’s completely excellent each by way of consolation, area and driving.”

Ødegaard chosen an F-150 Lightning Lariat Launch Version in Antimatter Blue Metallic with normal vary battery, able to delivering as much as 429km miles of vary (WLTP).

“This is a vital day for Ford in Norway,” mentioned Per Gunnar Berg, CEO of Ford Motor Norway. “As the primary nation exterior America to get F-150 Lightning, we get the chance to ship some of the talked about electrical automobiles on the planet in recent times to our clients. We stay up for going full throttle to present much more Norwegians the chance to expertise an all-electric truck not like anything on provide right here. It’s each greater, stronger and extra succesful than most you’ll discover on the Norwegian market, and is simply nearly as good as a household automotive as it’s for work.”