Certainly, it is imprudent to require the customer to charge the vehicle. The essence of the rental car industry lies in heightened efficiency achieved through assembly line practices. Only when the rental company assumes responsibility for charging will there be a motivation to ensure a charger is available at each parking spot on their premises. I could agree the customer should be responsible for plugging the charging cable when returning the car, but only because this is more efficient than having an employee make sure charging efficiency is optimized.

"Electric car manufacturers are aware of the risk of charging cable theft, and most EVs have locking mechanisms to secure the charging cable while the vehicle is charging unattended. However, these mechanisms are not always foolproof." 🙏❤💪

In US 600-700 gas cars catching fire every single day. Many gas stations refineries pipelines and tankers routinely catch fire. BTW most EVs allow locking in of charge cables.

This going to be interesting!

Do you have any idea of how difficult it was to find diesel for our VW TDI? As far as Tesla goes at least here in US the app makes it plug and play simple to charge a non Tesla. Also keep in mind that most ev manufacturers are moving to Tesla's plug. Also keep in mind that the Tesla fleet alone has already driven over 100 billion miles. Added to the other EVs it should be 200 billion miles. Our experience was once we understood the parameters around ev driving all anxieties faded away.

Yes, this was really interesting, I didn't know this much about Norway, other than that they already early on wanted to be forerunenrs though they are fossil (oil) producers themselves! Here in Sweden it has been a slow process, and Corona-virus slow-down when people discovered that working from home was convenient played a role, too. We see more and more Teslas on the road, some are from Denmark, some from Sweden. Volvo-workers wanted to build EVs, but the top-layer was against the idea. They had developed models and all early this Century. But nope! In the Nordic countries fossil fuel is so expensive (taxes added, included) and electricity is proportionally so much cheaper, the rich people have been the ones that have taken advantage of investing in expensive cars, and they have installed chargers at home and their fancy offices have installed chargers, too - that invested money is peanuts for them. So easy for them. Gradually their cars emerge on the second hand market. Most people overestimate, though, how much long distance driving they will do in a month. Normal distances to jobs by car are nowhere near a need of recharging the battery. It takes learning to get the logistics right and flexible. But it is also tedious to learn to use public transportation. About equal the nuisance. Our landlord has not provided the opportunity to charge from home, but some landlords do that. The nearest charger is 5 min walk from home, and our little car needs 4-6 hours charging time for full battery, and then we can drive 180 km in the winter and 340 km in the summer, but also depending on headwind and driving speed. It is a second-hand car. Nice, silent, but winter tires are a bit louder, though. (We are obliged to use them.) And if we visit somebody beyond that range we have to recharge there or on the way. True, it is difficult to learn about charging away from the routine. Our car reacts so that the equipment to charge is locked to the car and to the charger while charging, and to simply cut the cable would be dangerous, so that crime is unheard of. Tedious learning about new technology has been our destiny in my generation (being old enough) - I can sometimes be nostalgic about how simple and cheap it was with landlines and snail mail, and bank and postal offices with staff, and all those well-known and reliable services. But the forerunenrs have to pay for being early adopters, that is just normal, when it comes to innovations. With EVs a lot more recycling options exists in theory - we must just have patience with all the applications and best possible solutions. They will emerge when EVs are the normal option. The first washing machines were not the optimal either. It is easier to install a new motor and battery in an EV "shell" than to renew the motor and all thinsg needed to run it in a combustion car. But regrettably our EVs is so full of computer chips and other newfangled electronics, patented things, so it is not suitable for DIY, as I remember my Dad always did, replacing and repairing this and that. Also Swedish laws about safety and insurance are a nuisance, i e not flexible. So the car companies sure know how to profit in new ways, too. Consumers must be on their toes and keep demanding better everything. We can do it!

It embarrasses me as a Norwegian that the car rental service required them to return the car charged. With gasoline, it's very different, because you don't have gas pumps everywhere, but we do have electricity everywhere. Every parking lot should have an EV charger and that should include the car rental service. They don't need the charging to be very fast, because it will be parked for a while between rentals.

Pump shit ton of decades. Make people rich. Buy EVs. Continue to pump shit ton of oil every year that all gets burned. That is how it was done.

By the way, it really annoys me when people even try to compare Norway to USA. Norway should be compared to a state in USA, just like Sweden is a state in the EU. But if the Americans wanted to do it the Norwegian way, they would simply pick a state that was the most suitable for it and do it, without having to worry about the states that were less suitable. I think everyone understands that you can't do it in Alaska any time soon. :)

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