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Well, they seem to work fine in the cold, range get somewhat reduced but the cars do work but must be charged more often. The old EVs with minimal range is of course more challenging to use, an old Nissan leaf that had a very short range when it was new is not an ideal car in -30 after many...

Of course the population is more at the coast as the landscape and the winter in the old times did make travel very difficult so the boat was the only choice of transport and travel.I live 80km from the capitol and the common winter temperature the last years have been -10 to -20, this year it...

One man did complain on his chinese MG EV, it did not start in -50C, Oslo had periods with near -30 this year, the biggest problem was EV busses that did not have enough range and too few charging stations for them in the bus garages. I do think ICE cars struggle a lot more in the cold, of...

Well, at the coast line yes but if you live a bit from it temperatures in the -25 to -35C is very common. Where I live it was many days in the -15 to -30 and the chargers did seem to work fine. Some EVs did struggle in the -40 area but so did a lot of other ICE cars, been colder this winter...

0 F is not particularly cold, if I'm not mistaken it's ca -17 C. What was the reason for the charger failures?

What was the problems with EVs in Chicago?

EVs are a deadly threat to a lot of the old structures in the automotive industry, and the way to sell, maintain and supply service to car industry and car owners. The suppliers of fuel and the oil industry are probably not particularly happy for EVs. So the question is who is paying to push...

But remember that this is a clutch, not a PTO disconnect.

Do you press the clutch pedal down? It might have a pto hand clutch that just disconnects the PTO clutch.

Yes, its only an option if you have too much electricity that can't be used in a better way than making hydrogen, the Japanese government has hydrogen as a top priority, and Toyota seems to go all in, and drags the rest of the country's manufacturer with them. Japanese culture is very strange...

Hydrogen is not very cheap and easy to handle, I'm afraid hydrogen is not a viable option with today's technology.

Clean energy is hard, here it's a lot of talk about small, modular nuclear power plants, the only thing that can operate 24/7 365. But not all would call it clean energy. And its a lot of pointless green posing.

2023 earnings https://www.barrons.com/news/norway-earns-record-oil-gas-revenue-after-ukraine-war-2ac312bd

The Norwegian government has never earned so much money on oil and gas as the last two years, the Ukraina war has been extremely profitable. And the government does has a cap on the price or kWh, when the price goes over that the government pays the rest.

Mine was a 2.0 with carburettor and points, a real third world edition. I spent some time to see if it was possible to add power steering on it, only the 4WD had such luxury.

Yes it is, the old and new R5 EV

I'm quite sure no Chinese EV has this as an option, a baguette holder.... The Renault R5 EV is very French....

After the 720 I had a Nissan king Cab 1987 D21 2.0l petrol, the petrol engine was much cheaper to buy than the far more popular 2.5 diesel. The diesel had 75 hp so not a particularly fast pickup....

Old Datsun, had a 720 king Cab 1800 pickup for many years.

The mini was the original for all small hatchbacks, it has a lot of references to the original R5 1974 on the pic

And is not made in china

This is a EV I do like

Chinese EVs are not particularly cheap here in Europe, BYD has quite high prices, so high that the competition is VW and Tesla and BMW, no surprise that the sales are not great. The BYD Han is more expensive than a BMW I4....

But as always, the most common ones will be cheapest to own, so here are Tesla's and VW the most common, VW is everywhere in ICE and the EVs are very common, and a lot of shops and individuals are extremely knowledgeable on all things on VW and I suspect the same people will be it on VW EVs.

Batteries are expensive but not a normal thing to replace.

Haven't heard much bad about Kia EVs so I do beliv they are quite reliable.

Europe has had wars with Russia for many hundreds of years, so the attack on Ukraine makes a big difference. The EU does not have any army but probably we might see a move to get atomic weapons to hold the peace.

The fine thing with electric energy is all the different ways you can produce it, under ww2 when it was gas shortage we here in Scandinavian used short and thin firewood to power ICE cars, not a particularly clean or efficient way of making fuel.

France is talking seriously about going to war production, rolling out conscript in several Europe country's, my youngest son will probably have a one year mandatory service, we have conscription for all citizens but very few have been called in since the cold war ended. And EVs will be a part...

Well, nobody in the west was ready for a ww2 scenario, everybody did think a small but super advanced military was the answer, did work fine in the third world.

Does not use much, have had the heat on in -10c for over 10 hours and it didn't matter much.

But EVs don't use much energy when not moving so if it's a traffic jam an EV will not spend its battery.

Germany needs a lot of skilled workers in the arms manufacturing.

Car sales Europe 2023 https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/best-selling-cars-europe-2023

All gas stations that make all the money on selling fast food do use machines to make the burger, put a frozen one in a slot and out it comes ready, suppose that is common all over?

Video from the 2022 rally

It was today, Rally Hadeland

Old Volvo off the track

Local rally, with cars from the seventies to brand new.

Well, he was right. Many areas on this planet have way too many people, not enough resources locally and you get immigration, thousands upon thousands drown trying to get to Europe each year.

Is it socialism to sell on an international exchange to the highest bidder? The government is the biggest capitalist here and the most ruthless of all, profit above all else. The government owns over 90 percent of the power plants, and energy is in high demand so prices are very high on the...

Fossil fuels are a weapon that are in active use in some parts of the world, for countries that are dependent on import are trying to reduce the effect this weapon has. I see this weapon in full use on every electric bill I receive, as electricity here is sold on an exchange that sets the price...

Here 25 percent of all cars on the road are EVs, so it's becoming harder and harder to find useda newer ICE.

Noted two Ford Lightening trucks here, I'm quite sure they will be a popular choice for many.

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Lexus has given up ICEs in Norway, will only sell EVs.

It is a disputed conclusion, and not an official report but made by two employees on their own. But it's a good thing that things are discussed, and questions are raised from other than people that have more extreme political views. But I do believe we can't keep on consuming and polluting as...

Those heaters work well but it must be mounted correctly, warm water rises so it must be mounted so the water goes into the engine block, if it's not properly mounted much or all heat goes into the radiator and the heater has no effect.

I don't see any such thing here, but all cars are much more expensive to repair, the cost is driven up by extreme prices on parts, VIN locking electronic modules etc. A relatively light damage in the front can cost so much that the car is unrepairable, EV or ICE.

A political definition, all types of renewable energies has an impact, hydro has the issue with reduced or dry rivers in the winter hurting fish life, here in Norway nobody wants wind power, it's ugly and real danger for birds, and too little money is left in the local community to compensate...

Strange, hydro is renewable in the same way as wind and solar, you harvest energy without pollution and it's a more stable energy source.

Why are hydro not considered renewable energi? If I didn't misread it was 5% of the total.

But I have only diesel cars so it doesn't help much with the cost of driving ;)

This month the 1100kwh I use in the house will cost me around 5$, that's just for the energy. The bill from the power company that covers infrastructure will be much higher. But wind, sun and rain keeps energy costs down.

Here all trailers over 750kg must have brakes, but it's mechanical and has nothing to do with the car.

On more mature manufacturers like VW the control box is available and even aftermarket boxes exist, but you in the US have electric trailer brakes that might complicate things.

Here a lot of Y have hitch and are being used for towing, suppose it's like most newer cars and you need the integration into the cars control system and Tesla might not be the most easy to deal with if you don't buy the complete hitch from them.

Most EVs are just ordinary cars, unfortunately most are made from steel and the rest are just the same as an ICE. So they will rust and fall apart just as fast as the rest.

And the price of hydrogen is high, prices on kWh varies a lot, to morrow I will get paid to use electricity, the price is negative.

Has been dead for a long time, for cars it has been quite clear that EVs is the solution, of course Toyota has tried and tried to push hydrogen but it has never made any economic sense. The idea of using it on trucks seems to fade as electric trucks become better and cheaper and the charging...

Well, the Chinese brands are to be considered a failure in the market in Europe. So this is a clickbait video.

Strainer in the tank is missing or full of dirt?

Here its common on new houses if they have the common 400V system and not the strange 230V on many old grids. And the building code requirements demands that the house is ready for EV charging, conduct? has to be in place so wires can be installed later if needed.

And some old school equipment in my house.

My intake cabinet on the wall, wanted today's standard but it wasn't mandatory.

Here the power company tries to get everything down in the ground, up to my house it went in to the ground when I got fiber, two telecoms and the power company shared the cost for the digging.

The reduction of copper use might be a reason to go for 380V in the first place, I do believe this was agreed upon in 1937, the electrical system in Northern Europe is very dominated by German design, German engineers did design a lot of the large hydroelectric plants and equipment in the early...

380V has been used since probably before WW2, it has been rounded up to 400V and people do survive ;)

And this is a discussion involving EV and home charging it's relevant, you can charge faster with a 3 phase charger running on 400V.

Well, it's more common on single houses or farms, my farm has 3 X 125A 240V, unfortunately I have the outdated 240V and not a 400V system :(

https://electrical-engineering-portal.com/north-american-versus-european-distribution-systems

A poke mounted trafo

A trafo in it natural habitat

Yes, has been common and has been for many decades, even small apartments often have it, but in such cases it can be on phase. It's rare to find one phase in any building that has been upgraded since the fifties. In some very cheap housing the cable is three phases in to the distribution panel...

3 phase motors are the most common electric motors, and are simple and cheap. Nobody has three phase lights In normal houses, but you have three phases to distribute your electric load, and all the distribution grid is 3 phase so it makes no point not to use it in to the house. But in the US you...

But it has been the standard in most of the western world for many decades, seems strange that it's not the default house connection in the US.

Why is three phases a thing in the US? Would think all new lines was there phase?

The EV market share in Norway for august was 83,5 % Petrol 1,1% Diesel 2,2% The rest are hybrids.

There are sealant you can put on the tire to help against leaks along the rim, might be cheaper and easier to do.

The front axle is a weak spot, particularly on small tractors so wheel motors makes sense.

To make it better you would have two wheel motors at the front and two motors to drive the rear wheels, independent regulation would be very effective, and remove as many mechanical parts as possible. To get rid of the fragile front axle, but when we are redesigning so much the whole design...

It is expensive and the description seems to indicate that it is just an engine swap, as it had a hydrostatic drive train, probably very inefficient in an electric tractor if that's the design. But it's a start, and they have sold several here in Norway.

Farmtrac 25hp electric tractor, run time 3 hours.

But you have sun 24/7 in the summer, may not be enough in the middle of the night so I think the hydroelectric plant has to take the load. But solar panels work in the daylight and one fine thing with hydroelectric is the ease it is to regulate production, save water in the day and pull up...

It can be recycled. https://www.fortum.com/services/battery-recycling/lithium-ion-battery-recycling-technology

Sudden wealth is not easy to handle, spending it in a responsible way is hard, we have put a lot of the oil money into a investment fund and that works nicely. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_Pension_Fund_of_Norway

Quite irrelevant as we have plenty of both dirty and clean energy, but many poor countries are in areas where there is sun so that's an option even not perfect.

Electric power can be produced from many sources and in many places solar power can fuel cars, many poor countries have a shortage of dollars to purchase oil and fuels, much better to run EVs and use your foreign currencies on more important things.

Well, maybe as EVs are simple machines, when the most important thing is the three year lease customer real quality is not that important, the quality that matters now is fit, finish and the quality experience of the dealer and the cars exterior and interior, that sells cars. Hva been sitting...

That's the reason everybody wants to get off the dependence on oil. Oil is only good for those that can produce it.

Old Mercedes Benz cars lasted a very long time, and still do to this day. Of course today a Mercedes needs more maintenance than an old 240D but here in Europe it is not that expensive to keep them on the road. A lot of used and remanufactured parts for all the German cars, I do see in the US...

Most new cars don't last very long because of engineering designs and cost of parts and time. Very few fixes their own cars so major faults are not economical to repair. EVs are much simpler designs than any new ICE, very few parts so they should last. Batteries are also repaired so it might not...

Suppose you don't have any vehicle parked close to your hose as the fire risk is higher on a ICE.

This ferry is ca 20km away from my house and is electric and if it is running on ICE it's using fuel based on HVO fuel or biofuel.

One of the few charging stations in the area that can handle a car with trailer.

A electric tractor that are built from scratch as a EV will be much cheaper than the very complex tractors of today, electric PTO is on its way to become a standard as mechanical PTO are very inefficient on complex attachments. Next step will be diesel electric tractors to remove the ridiculous...

50k Fendt? Don't think they have anything at so low prices, it's the Mercedes Benz of tractors and has always been very very expensive.

Like everything new it's expensive and a small market, I do believe it will be popular in cities where the customer demands low noise and zero exhaust for all kinds of machines and trucks.

A lot of tractor use are not endless hours of field work, this is a 70hp and are probably very nice and quiet machines. Here are farmers not the largest buyers of tractors, contractors are. And an electric tractor would be very nice to do a lot of maintenance work in cities.

https://www.carscoops.com/2022/02/driven-the-honda-e-advance-is-a-retro-futuristic-gadget-on-four-wheels/ Honda E

Here in Europe in the eighties and early nineties many called Honda the Japanese answer to BMW, a focus on engineering and design, this disappeared quite fast as the newer models showed up. The Civic was popular but became more and more boring and never could take on the Golf and other modern...

Honda e:Ny1, another total failure? The first tests are total slaughter, a very mediocre EV. First Mazda and Toyota and now Honda, mostly selling to brand loyal customers and not even try to compete with Tesla.

But the ship burns, and we may be able to find the source, time will show. EVs or not.

Not quite the same, the steel of the ship does carry the heat much more effectively around the structure so the fire will spread much faster.

There have been several car carriers that have burned, suppose the cars have the battery connected on the journey, EVs or not. Anybody that know how this is handled? Old cars for export will be a very high risk, often the cars are loaded with a lot of stuff and no concerns for safety.

But ships on fire are not easy to put out, EVs or not, nobody wants it to sink close to shore, and towing it to land is not an option because of smoke. There has been a lot of fires in cars long before EVs was a thing.

But in most cases the battery doesn't catch fire even when the EV is completely burned out. On a ship like this is a very different type of fire from most fires and of course everything will burn.

And there's a lot of stress, dealers that can't compete with the cars they have available, Tesla are killing the market for everyone, dealers know what is coming, the service market is falling fast, shops don't see any future etc. Tesla Y has 25 percent of the car market in the first half of...

Why does it have to be an EV that's started the fire? It's very common that cars burn, and a cargo ship where so many cars are parked with a few mm distance a fire will spread very easy. Here I live there are a lot of EVs, and as far as I know there is no higher risk for fires. We had a big...

We had a large fire in a parking garage, several hundred cars were damaged or totally burnt out, many of them EV, according to the fire department none of the EV batteries caught fire.

For newer EVs it's not an option to charge from a regular outlet, home chargers are relatively cheap so it does not make any sense to not have them.

And it's very rare that the battery starts to burn, charging with ordinary outlets is an issue, here in mainland Europe where Schuko outlets are common things can happen, they are not rated for constant 16A load and can overheat. But almost all are installing a proper EV charger, which handles...

But even it the car burns it ts not so that the battery burns, and statically EVs don't burn more than other cars.

Well, most EVs don't need much service, and things like brakes, suspension etc are the same as a ICE. So what on earth is costing this huge amount of money? Here ordinary shops repair EVs and the only difference is the high voltage system, but mechanics get special training and certificates to...

Prius is not an EV, but Toyota did market it as the self charging EV here.

If I'm not mistaken Toyota has the most debt of all automakers, wonder why.

And so far the Toyota EVs have been a failure, if they have all this advanced technology in the EV field why does it not show? This is not the first time Toyota bragging about how far ahead their battery technology is. Is this just a cover up to calm investors and answer the criticism from...

Well, better quality is not always up to the workers, a Chinese factory might be newer, have much better quality control and so on. And if your quality is so tied up to the day to day performance of humans then you have a problem. The only way to really improve assembly is to get rid of as...

But some include hybrids in the EV numbers, are byd the largest on proper EVs?

All work knives have some off the same patent, but Mora knives have the best button attachment.

Just wondering about this.

It's only 10% on Chinese EV as far as I know, but many of the brands have placed themselves at a very high price point, almost on the level as known brands, no reason to buy Chinese if you kan buy a proper brand.

The only thing I have heard is the instant torque from high performance EVs did put much more stress on the tire.

EU is quite strict and demanding local production, Japanese cars, excavators and all kinds of foreign products to be made in the EU, even the small Lovol/Foton tractor brand had to purchase a Italian brand to establish local production, so the EU is not that easy to deal with. At the moment I...

Not sure, in Europe the Japanese brands never had the same success as in the US, and the Chinese brands are struggling hard at the moment, very hard to get any real market share.

Somebody still believes in ICE https://edition.cnn.com/2023/07/11/business/renault-geely-gas-hybrid-engines/index.html

Haven't had cash in well over ten years, do not miss it at all.

The car industry has stagnated to a business that was occupied by making new sheet metal and some new plastic for the interior, just buying the new gadgets from the suppliers, no real innovation, just very slow progress over the same base technology. The car industry might be going to have a...

VW, Renault and the others is trapped by Tesla, probably can Tesla sell cars even cheaper if needed, the others are probably loosing money on every EVs even before Tesla dropped the price. Here we see 5 - 10000 $ price drops, a new Leaf cost now 20 000$. VW have admitted that the relatively...

Do you have negative price on power in the US? Tomorrow I will get paid to use electricity and that is something ICE owners don't experience, and I have only ICEs......

Prices on EVs are going down, now I can buy a brand new Nissan Leaf 20000$, not to bad. Of course it's a very low spec version but it's new.

Yes, the discussion is ended, the world has made its choice. ;)

Proof. ;)

Well, my digital does and I can see if it's between numbers. F is a scale that only makes sense if you are force-fed it from childhood. A 0 point of that has no real connection with any form of logic.

And except for the readout it was calculated in metric, don't think Werner von Braun converted to the US measuring system.

This guy seems to be in the right age, a lot of older men has a intense hate when It comes to EVs, often not a valid argument, just a irrational hate. Know people that won't allow EVs to park in the driveway, so visitors must park in the street if they own one.

The tariff is only 10% so it should not make to much difference on price.

Here in Europe BYD has not sold their cars cheap, and of course the sales have failed, nobody wants a Chinese EV when you can buy a proper car brand for the same price.

Landscapes

Well, if this is true then the government will control it, we have no tradition to let anyone explore natural resources without most of the profit returns to the people.

A lot of collectables cars will fade out of interest, a lot of quite ordinary cars have become very valuable and that might not stay that way forever. EVs are of course also collectables if they are particularly historically or technically interesting, but today's young people are probably not...

How are the payments done at the charging station in the us? App only or is it possible with a credit or debit card?

A rainy evening at the lake

Charging and burgers, no problem this Friday even by a main road, even with our relative high share EVs. This Tesla charger is open for all brands.

One more

Today, a bit more green. https://maps.app.goo.gl/UAomehta38au5dZ5A

Repairing a old door on the barn, planned to make a new one but it was to "nice" to replace, history in every plank and shoddy repair.

Farms

Some more

Snow

Road and tunnel

More from my trip now

On my way home from the farm

Always something to do with an old barn..

Rock falls from the top, bounces of the cliff wall and lands 2-300 meters from my house.

Found the tree

Falling rock meets tree.....

More nature

Sheep grassing around the barn

More

More

Some more

My river

And this EV viking makes a lot of claims, a few weeks ago it was a video about the Chinese brands didn't stand a chance in Europe.... And EU will effectively stop Chinese EVs by demanding that they are produced in the EU.

Don't think anybody is particularly afraid, we have a lot of Chinese EV but there have been issues, a car cost a lot of money and some unknown brand backed by small importers are not very a attractive offer. The Chinese cars that I see is BYD, MG and Hongqi A picture of the last marquee

I'm afraid that many brands will die, Tesla is pushing the cost down and those that are late to the party will struggle. See VW wants to be a part of the future, and they have a lot in the planning.

Batteries will become cheaper, and overhauling of old batteries are not an impossible task, the point is that you can produce your own power by solar panels not needing to buy extremely costly gas or diesel. It all about economics and EVs are cheaper to use over time. And they pay high prices on...

Or is it the CCP that are out with propaganda again?

Well, they have areas and sunshine, no need to spend hard earned dollars to import fuel. Many poor countries have very little export industry so $ are hard to get or the industry is controlled by others that don't contribute much to the economy.

Oh, the Africans are not so happy for this export, have sent all kind of worn out junk from Europe to Africa for decades, and large cities in Africa have a lot of problems with pollution, no reason to not get EVs in poorer countries, EVs will be cheaper and cheaper to buy and don't need...

https://electronicsarea.com/why-is-there-a-diode-connected-in-parallel-to-a-relay-coil/

Oh, maintenance is more than a oil change, owning a more premium ICE are not cheap, even the more ordinary car cost a lot in service cost, then you have cam belts, brake service etc.

Have they tried an EV ?

EV batteries are well protected, have seen a few burned out EV without any battery fire so it's not that big risk as many believes.

It's a company doing road maintenance, the contracts they have at the moment has strict requirements for emissions reduction so EVs are a part of the reduction, same with trucks running on biogas, this EV works just fine and most of the scepticism to EVs as a replacement for diesel vans was...

First time driving a VW ID Buzz cargo, very pleasant experience to drive.

Yes it is.

Many are in the market for more HD EV commercial vehicles, a F150 would be a good choice for many, both privat and commercial use. US pickups have been popular at times, and this will be very cheap in use.

Ford announced that F150 Lightning is official at sale in Norway, going to be interesting to see how long the wait list will be.

Oh, this church was not built for the common man, this was a part of the elite and a part of the governance of the region, American religion is of and by the people, not so much in Europe, the church for the common man is sadly gone, it was a wooden stave church maybe like this:

More 8 - 900 years old churches from where I usually lives

Here are the fjord, from here you can sail everywhere, this ca 7km drive from my farm.

Many people today has a idea that everything was better in the past, most of them wouldn't lasted a day if they did manual labor. Has a lot of tools and work methods that is a witness of how hard life was, most people didn't have any money, all they had was labour. Have old papers where people...

First written documents mention this and my neighbour farms are from 1309 and then it has probably been a farm for many hundreds of years, the church here have been in use for 800 years.

Inside nature...

Not nature but a stone fens with a waterind dich beneath it, how old I don't know but it has been a farm here for over a thousand years.

Some rocks on the field

This farm I owned has a summer farm in the area where the waterfalls are, we had three 3 summer farms, producing white and brown cheese for sale.

In the early spring this are is a small but wide waterfall

Here you can see a little ice that hasn't melted

Don't have a proper camera with me so is not the best

Yes, now in the spring it's many small waterfalls, in the summertime only a few larger is visible. In the winter the waterfalls become a ice fall all the way down.

One more

Some more

Spring it's on its way

Spring is on its way

At the moment Tesla has a market share of 47% where I live, not bad for a US car brand.

Toyota have not been successful with its first attempt on a mass market EVs, fare behind the competition and now they must recall to try fix as much as they can to not become a total failure. EVs are not so easy.

Silent and warm, no idling diesel for a 10 hours shift.

New VW ID Cargo, second day in use.