Admiration while driving from others

[Scorpio3d]

You in the US or Canada are meanwhile already used to see EV trucks. I am located in Germany. Having a full size truck at all is already something which you don´t see that often and I havn´t seen any single other EV Truck here so far.
So pretty much experiencing the same now - people turning their heads while driving by and are even more surprised when I open the frunk - I like the questionmarks in their faces

Did you import it from the Netherlands or can you purchase them in Germany now?

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[Scorpio3d]

Two notices the same day, same highway, same drive.


I was on the right lane using BlueCruise. A new 2024 Lightning Flash owner with temp tags pulled up on my left. The owners gave me a big friendly wave and smile. I saw them coming and was able to give them a wave.


Second notice was a Raptor or one of the smaller off-roady looking trucks pulled up to my left and started passing me. The passenger rolled down his window, gave me a big thumbs up with an excited look on his face. As they passed he stuck his head out and mouthed "That's cool!" His admiration showed. That was a fun notice. He obviously knew what the Lightning looked like.

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Another time I had a nail in a tire and took it to the cheapest, closest auto mechanic. He pulls it into his garage, fixes the tire. Comes back and goes "that's one of those electric trucks isn't it?" We talk about it and he and his mechanic buddy get super impressed by the frunk. Glad I got to show him something he might not come across in his career. I got the sense the two of them were a bit awe struck.

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Earlier this month I did get noticed by another Lightning on the opposite lane. They flashed their lights at me. Unfortunately I noticed too late and couldn't flash back as they passed.

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Not a Lightning story, but a funny frunk story with a Silverado EV. I spotted my first Silverado EV at a grocery store parking lot. I was super excited and parked close by as the owner parked. I struck up conversation. It was a new owner using a fleet work truck EV. As we were talking about the Silverado EV frunk and showing off the tools in there. A older guy walks up about to get into the car next to us. Guy does a quick glance at the "engine". Does the whole cartoon double take and . He looks like he's thinking "am I dreaming there's no engine. Why is there stuff where the engine is?" I confirm "there's no engine because it's electric. There all this space to store stuff." He shakes his head in silent disbelief and drives off. Never said a word to us. That was funny.

My brother from another mother owns a mechanic shop, he works on mostly high-end cars Like Mercedes, Aston Martin, Lamborghini, BMW, etc.
I went to his shop a few months back to do the BCM update as he has the credentials to do that! I popped the Frunk to hook up the battery maintainer while doing the updates and a couple of the guys that work for him thought that was really cool so they took turns sitting in the Frunk taking pictures of each other, all I could do was smile and chuckle to myself!