How To Ship An Electric Vehicle from the USA to New Zealand

Ryan Everton
3 min readFeb 21, 2024
F150 Lightning San Francisco California before shipping to USA.

In 2023, my dad purchased an F150 Lightning in California, which I then shipped to him in New Zealand. It took two years for the electric ute/pickup to arrive from the initial order, and in January, it finally reached Auckland, making him likely the first person in New Zealand to own the F150 Lightning. Here are the key points I learned from this experience:

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Ryan Everton

I’m the CEO of the worlds leading reuse company TURN. I am a kiwi based in San Francisco dedicated to ending single use plastic in exchange for reuse.