Easy when you export gas and have unlimited green energy.

The US could do better if they tried....they just have too much division amongst themselves

@@bobby6ix US has about six million people who have at least one million dollars, but in general people, regular people that is aren't wealthy because of division and inequality

Sound financial management.

yep but sadly it's only possible for small nations. if a big country like the usa decided to do the same and invest just as much per citizen then that fund would be 95.5 trillion dollars and no market could absorb up that amount of money. the only reason it works for nations such as norway or Saudi Arabia is because they have big resource deposits and small populations. bigger economy's sadly need to rely on manufacturing and development to make money instead of relying on their natural resources since their resource deposits aren't big enough to create a fund of 95.5 trillion dollars to cover a population of 350 million. so it has nothing to do with the military like many people in the comments seem to think, even if america stopped spending money on the military and saved that money for a trust fund for its people it would take 70+ years to build up that fund.

As a norwegian I would not know since the gouverment in reality only cares about themself and money

People keep voting the same expecting something different

our gov helps the people too, except it is the top 1%, cause the top 1% funded the people into office, which is the root cause of the challenge in our political system, cause lobbying will only create greed and corruption!

Why would we need help from the government ever? No.

It is also not that difficult in a country with a surplus on the state finances - a trade surplus that is sky-high considering that we are only 5.5 million people. The Norwegian state only uses modestly up to 3% of your saved fund - which is rising at record speed and has available values of $1.55 trillion or $275,000 for every person living in the country.

That air must be so fresh/healthy...that on its own deserves huge subsidies!!

As an norwegian myself, I thought the same. Investigating pros and cons, asking gouvernment officials, EV-owners, people with economic interest like in cars sales, parking and charging. Checking ut any earlier or current problems with the whole user system, its incitaments. Well balanced, and not gloryfying. Pointing out this «mess» with all the types of apps for charging, but altso showing the solutions ahead.

She was pretty obviously trying to get people to that EVs have drawbacks. They always leave out all the ICE car drawbacks

What is the main cash earning of norway? oil... If you sell what is bringing your income ? what happens? Norway is just doing the logic...lets other people pollute the world , eran a lot of money and I use electricity without using my precious oil. I am sure that they lobby in the USA and other countries to continue polluting the wold. Do they want to the world to stop consuming oil...NOOOOO. People are so naive

Propaganda piece.

..and the "I need a Range Rover since our Hut is in the mountains" was hillarious. It's a pretty common misconception for people living in Holmenkollåsen or Røa (west in Oslo). Btw:we also have a hut in the (Norwegian) mountains, and we drive our Nissan Leaf there...

@@erik5820lol, me too. Electric is so much better for driving in mountains! Finally going down the mountain is not an experience of smell of grinding break disks and roar of engine on low gear 😆, It also goes well uphill due to high torque :)

Thats a $10k range rover.

ICE cars are expensive in Norway, but that model seems to be older for sure@@OtisFlint

That's a used range rover and it's price has taken a dumpster dive

There is corruption in Norwegian politics. Smaller scale due to smaller population and it is kept very quiet and not blabbed about every night on CNN.

@@inquisitor4635 Norway has a free press that loves to expose corruption. You have to be an angel of the highest rank to survive in Norwegian politics.

Just like every other country!

@tenslider6722 . could you please tell me five acurrenses where this have happened (this must be with the politicians, not husman or wife). Tell me how much they gained it. and then go back and check in the US or other countries for the same thing. How damaging have that been I must ask.

@@biobuble1327 Very easy, every poor cities in the United States has had a corrupt elected official who spend the city budget on BS, take bribes money to line their pockets. plenty small countries in Africa has resources that could make them richer than Norway but corrupt officials team up with the official from the west to rob their own countries.

True! Truly an admirable country!!!

Yeah, they seem to have their s*** together.

What the most Lady-led Nation gets ya. Similar, for the region - as a whole 👍!

You and everyone else who loves this comment must have never been to Norway or educated yourself on Norwegian history. Norway was “given” to the “Vikings” by the Germans. They realized they couldn’t grow anything pretty quick and took to the seas and the trade market in the south. The people are only as competent as your opinions will get you. You think any opposition is not competent. The government lies cheats steals and lies to its people.

LOL, brainwash level HARD :))

@@drfeelgood6646 can you tell us which part is wrong?

@@drfeelgood6646 Funny how people claiming this is the result of brainwashing fully ignore that most of us EV owners have owned ICE-vehicles before, so unlike the likes of you we're speaking from experience.

Why have you gone thru' 3 EVs already, and what became of your old EVs - how are they recycled?

@@robotnik77 There's this thing called used car sales. It's great, it let's you buy a used car at a reduced price compared to a new one. Unless it's a collectible car, then it could be more expensive than a new one, though the new ones are usually no longer available.

Love that clueless trolling. Please keep it coming

Good point. They are against using oil themselves but don't mind helping others to release CO2. If they really were environmental they'd close their oil industry.

Word 👊

​​@@wayland7150 Norwegian oil and gas industry have most likely one of the cleanest mining and refining systems. If they stopped mining it, their customer countries would just switch to other oil and gas sources, which would be most likely mined and processed dirtier than in Norway.

@@wayland7150 Agreed 100%. Norway should stop selling dirty oil, and instead expand their offshore wind and sell the electricity to Europe.

In America chest pounding males would figure out to add a big noise maker on an ultra quiet electric car to protect their insecurity in their manhood.

Less noise😂 No, still noisy

@@Oystein87struggling with the meaning of “less”?

@@jacquie212 Nope... Just can't say it's "less" either...

@@Oystein87 unless they are literally quieter than gasoline cars. Which they are.

As long as it’s not Big Pharma related, we see good documentaries. God forbid it be about vaccines, then Big Pharma steps in with their version of “truth”. This was a well made documentary

Until we start trust them, and they start pushing propaganda. But indeed, i kinda enjoyed this

More a of a small plunge on a pool...Nobody's really diving... ask them where all the Lithium and Cobalt come from!? It's nice to have a clean and modern country while contributing to slavery and polution on poor countries!

We are not "lucky" for finding resources. We just spend the money we make wisely. Dont forget we also have some of the highest taxes in the world as well.

Ya in a relatively small country with one of the highest capita per person in the world along with massive government subsidies. Sure then it's possible where most people can actually afford it and are well educated. This doesn't work in the US with a bunch of broke people barely able to make their monthly rent payment. Just saying.

😂 Even in Denmark they have higher salaries than here in Norway

The Us in the number ONE when it comes to oil production. But your gouverment doenst really know how to do anything. Asuming you are american

@@BillAnt Norway was absolutely poor 80 years ago. Just like South Korea. The US was extremely rich in the 50s-60s. They could have invested this money to the people and you wouldn't struggle today.

It's an intelligent way of using their oil wealth.

They're selling the oil to the old world while they build a utopia.

I don't really see the irony since we need oil for way more (and) important things than powering cars. Planes, ships, plastic production, medicine production, lubricants, ... EVs are not the end of Oil, just the end of wasting a huge part of it

They have plentiful hydropower. They don't need the oil for themselves.

@@martalli if they didn't had oil they wouldn't be rich and they couldn't afford the charging infrastructure

no, "a gas station in the world except Norway". small difference.

no, a gas station owner who owns a tesla......Norway goverment get tons of money because they sell oil to europe and with that money offer incentives to buy electric cars.....@@biobuble1327

@@biobuble1327 no, because norways wealth is all down to oil. look at how different the wealth of the nation was before the discovered it in the last 50-60 years

No, Norway is like a layabout who inherits billions from an unknown relative, encouraging others to insist that being a layabout is the way to go.

@@03056932 It wasn't some poor hellhole backwater though. It was already a functional country with democracy, educated populace and some wealth already. Thats why they managed to avoid ending up like a lot of the other oil states.

Ya, charging 10% to 75% in 15 minutes sounds great, but when I go refill my car I go from 10% to 100% in under 5 minutes. Makes me chuckle when they say charging to 75%. lol

@@BillAnt 10-75% in 15 minutes is still an achievement technology-wise if you take into consideration where the technology started. However, there are already batteries that can charge in 5 minutes but they're still experimental.

Look at it this way: with a petrol car you have to fill up at the pump, and it *always* costs 5 minutes (excluding time to get to a petrol station). With an EV, you typically charge at home, so that doesn’t cost any time at all - plug in and you have a full “tank” every morning. I find myself using fast chargers only a dozen times a year or so, which adds up to much less time than I used to spend going to petrol stations. Anecdotal, I realize that, but still for me this feels like an improvement, not a step backwards.

@@BillAnt Small update, now you can charge at 500 kW thanks to a company called Gravity Mobility. Most cars in North America can charge up to 350 kW but some cars in China can charge up to 400-500 kW. Then you'd be able to charge in around 5 minutes.

@@sebastian.tristan And destroy your battery in the process. The more you fast charge the shorted Wil be your battery life. The depreciation of your EV will be astronomical and no one will want to buy it due to battery degradation.

First comment that I read that's fairly on point. Yes, Norway is rich, yes Norway drills oil...Saudi Arabia do the same but no one cares, so why the need to point this out? It proves it can be done, with the right politics

​@@mattiafrancescobruni8318stop. Get help.

I feel like a major point people are ignoring is how concentrated their population is towards the south making the infrastructure easier to build. Charging stations is one of the biggest holdups in the US. Had a friend get some Ford EV sedan and we don’t have a compatible charger within 50 miles. He returned it within a week and drives a Camry now.

​@@mattiafrancescobruni8318 I agree with you. Just Americas have a sense of disingenuousness. As if one has to be an absolute angel or an absolute devil. No room for compromise or nuanced understanding. "Look Norway pumps the most oil...." In American eyes, if you're doing good, everything you do has to be good as if you're Jesus. If you're bad,....it's all justified...you're just bad. As if you're Satan... American Purity.. Pure good, Pure Evil.

it's crazy how people have to justify the failure of the U.S. stop justifying and demand action.

Its biased propaganda

@DutchmanSeb I wasn't that impressed. The battery lifespan issue is very real and a big concern, not only for new buyers, but for the 2nd hand market too. This video absolutely glossed over it. All they covered about it was some random guy claiming his 8 years old Tesla S, with 200k km on the clock, lost only 3.5% of its battery, which is completely absurd... And they also mentioned Norway has some facilities for recycling batteries, but didn't even bother to mention how much of the battery is actually recycled. Meanwhile, people I know with EVs have lost >= 20% of their battery in just a few years and are looking at exorbitant fees to replace the battery. That kind of stuff really puts me off from buying an EV.

@@XLR8bg Lol you are not impressed because of the journalism being good or bad. You weren't impressed because it didn't meet your already deeply ingrained set of pre-conceived biases. A literal exact list of all the same overwhelmingly overused, reused, old and tired (DEBUNKED) talking points that have been regurgitated by the fossil fuel lobby for years. Its even more obvious because you all even reused the same false data. Battery Recyling is already at extremely high levels and has no problem getting to over 97% of the materials in degraded & spent batteries being recycled into completely new refreshed 100% efficiency batteries. A process that can be done indefinitely...just like with materials like copper that has a supply chain mainly based on recycled material because the cost structure is better than the cost of mined material. There is no "battery lifespan issue". In its current form they already outlast their internal combustion engine counterparts and that's with way less maintenance along the way. And those numbers will only improve. We already have batteries that will last 1 million miles before they reach a stage that they need to be replaced. and even then those can get another 10+ years in a second use for stationary batteries before they need to be completely recycled...back into brand new batteries. Not only is this already more cost effective...it doesn't even need policy to force it because it is ALREADY lucrative enough to the battery industry to recycle the batteries on their own, which is why companies have already been created with private money long before we have even reach the time period where these battery packs will start reaching end-of-life en mass. Even with your made up anecdotal evidence of "people you know" losing 20% of their batter in just a few years while all the ACTUAL evidence says otherwise and even before they mass switch to LFP for standard performance vehicles which batteries will degrade even slower than now. Just because you were successfully gaslit and fooled by fossil fuel propaganda doesn't mean you have to keep letting yourself be fooled when the real evidence overrides yours...

⁠@@XLR8bgnot propaganda at all the batteries consistently handle of 300k miles. Only alway you lose a lot of range is if you fast charge up to 100% a lot. Mine is 5 years old and has about 88% of its original range, even after a lot of fast charging. If it a Tesla gets to 70% they replace the battery for free within 8 years. Electric cars are so much better in every way (other than charge time). Like the dude at the end said, once you go electric there’s no going back

@@XLR8bg I think perhaps you've been speaking to people with inferior electric cars, it's true that most early adopter attempts at electric vehicles were not very well made. They did not have a BMS (battery management system) neither did they have battery thermal management systems to heat or cool the batteries, what results is that the battery gets too hot while charging, destroying cells, it also gets too cold in winter killing cells, that means that 20-30% of your battery dies after fast charger and driving through winter. The cars of today are far more advanced and have learned from these mistakes. That doesn't mean they are perfect, but are improved. Tesla for e.g. has always had these systems since the first Model S.

I guess you’re still in the EV honeymoon period. These things can break within 2 years and 14K miles used.

@@jamsbong Funny, I am just under 3 years and 30,000 miles still getting the same range as when new.

@@Jaw0lf just sharing my colleagues real experience. He leased the Kia EV and it is totally dead in less than 2 years with 14K miles. He had to towed it to the dealer and dealer gave him a rental EV. Moreover, there have been news that a light hit under the car is enough to require a full battery pack replacement. Which costs 60K, in other words, more than the price of the whole car.

@@jamsbong Break within 2 years? So, just like an ICE car then…

@@cerdicw9998 I guess KIA cars don’t last long in general

Most of the ones on the top 10 list they showed are available in the US!

Oh yeah. Chinese brands are expanding into western countries rapidly, BYD is blowing the competition out of the water right now. Nio is trailing behind, but even they have over 2200 automated battery swap stations with a couple other manufacturers signing on so it will be interesting to watch how that evolves. Where I live there's not much going on as far as ev infrastructure or adoption so the conversation falls flat. But it's impossible to deny the rapid adoption in the rest of the world.

@@MsBigact Not in big numbers. What's worse is not with the right connector. We need the fast charging infrastructure, that ALL EVs can use, then all kinds of EVs can be sold. Longer range will be desired by most people in the US vs elsewhere, but there's no reason that cannot be achieved.

VW, BMW, Skoda, Kia and so on have very good electric cars and ofc Tesla!

@@kylegusek BYD is not blowing anything out of the water, and let's hope it stays that way.

You think it’s the same size country?

Norway has bi-partisan support when it comes to clean air. USA had bi-partisan support when it comes to war. That's what you need to know.

US Pays for their wars! This is where most of its taxpayers money goes. And there is always a war somewhere.

Goverments can always chose; spend on charging - there will be a lot of new Jobs Spend on war - there will be a lot of dead spliders/ kids

How much money are they giving to Ukraine?

If an EV works in a country with the vast stretches of road like Norway,range cannot be an issue in the UK consider how small the UK is.

have you seen norwegian prices?

​@@FrygiskThat depends on population density of those "empty areas" as well as commutes. If 95% of travel in Norway happens in 2% of it's landmass, then EVs become way more viable. One thing of concern too is the climate. EVs really struggle in cold and hot temperatures. Can't imagine the climate in Norway as being EV friendly.

The UK has a vast road network with twice as many electric cars , its a massive job to get the electric infrastructure in place. How many roads run the the length of Norway 1 or 2 isn't it. @@Frygisk

To be clear, in the UK many drivers use EVs for regular long journeys.

They did it by thinking long term, but they have a long long history of this approach. Private enterprise gets profits for a long time, but eventually the asset comes back to the state and everybody gets to share it. End of the day a countries natural wealth belongs to everyone. Problem is once you have a culture it's hard to change it. In the US it's closer to everyman for himself , in Norway there is relatively more emphasis on leaving no man behind and on thinking long term. Seems to work quite well. Maybe in the US it is more likely to work at state level where people are more on the same page.

​​@@robertimrie3710We do not believe "a country's natural weather belongs to everyone." That is a subjective value judgment. (and socialist). We believe that the natural resources belongs to the guy who digs it out of the ground. (private property rights). 🇺🇲✝ ️

@@Matthew_Loutner Bro learned what socialism is from fox news I'm not a socialist but you're not exactly helping capitalism with such rhetoric.

@@domerame5913 I am not here to "help capitalism." I am here to state true facts. Socialism is dictatorship by an elite oligarchy who believes that they know what is best for your life and forces their idea of "good" on you whether you want it or not. You are the child and your socialist government is your mother. In a socialist country when you are sick, you call on your government (mother) and she wipes your nose for you. When the socialist-government-mother hands out candy, she makes sure that it is an equal distribution; that everything is "fair" and nobody gets a piece larger than anybody else. Fairness is queen. (Fox News dreams of the day they can keep up with me.)

@@Matthew_Loutner What would Jesus do? Get the bag obviously 💰

I thought they sold tulips. 🌷🌷🌷🌷

@@Matthew_Loutner Dutch do that...

Do you think the world would use less oil if we stopped selling it? Instead of the oil money being spent on skyscrapers in the middle east. etc. Isn't it better the oil money gets spent on pushing the world towards a healthier planet. EV's is not the only thing Norway spends a lot of money on to improve the climate.

@@k.a.stensson Actually market economics says that the world would use less oil if you stopped selling it. The way that works is this: If you stopped selling your oil, that would cause a reduction in the quantity supplied. Reducing the quantity supplied pushes up the market equilibrium price. A higher equilibrium price is a disincentive to buy and some people would cut back on their driving due to the higher price. Having some people cut back on their driving adds up to the world using less oil. Let me know if you have any more economics questions.

@@Matthew_Loutner it would NOT reduce the quantity.. because the middle east countries and Russia would just increase their output to cover the demand

And the hydropower that’s in abundance.

It is only a matter of scale. US have higher population density and more potential customers. Unfortunately its money that is the main driving factor and with fuel prices being double that of the US it is not hard to make the switch to EV. If you had to pay 8 USD/gallon you might consider an EV as well.

​@@Gazer75, if you say so but I ride my bicycle everywhere. I m retired and restaurants and grocery stores are w in 5 miles from my house

Shh eee ttt ... they aren't aware of him.

@@StephenShawCanada 🤣

ABC CNBC. Always Bjørn Contacting.

Bjørn is out on another 1,000-km challenge, spending nearly an entire day driving around to test a new battery electric vehicle. That's around 620 miles -- how long would it take you to drive that many miles in a day? Meanwhile, anti-EV KZfaqrs like MGUY Australia sit in their little studios at home, reading off articles about all of the problems with battery electric vehicles, spending perhaps half an hour per day. And getting like three to five times as many views as Bjørn is. Not really kidding at all. Battery electric vehicles really don't work for a whole lot of people -- unless, I suppose, government builds infrastructure that allows EVERYONE to charge at home, and provides incentives to the tune of making electric vehicle purchases around half the price of combustion vehicle purchases. Norway has the highest per-capita income ON THE ENTIRE PLANET, with a population a bit over 5 million people. It's an entirely different situation than what's going on in any other country on the planet.

Is there any point in talking to an EV propaganda Bjorn Nyland?

that is great. Thanks for sharing

Honestly, I don't understand why even an app or card is needed. I use neither to charge my Tesla at a Tesla supercharger. Just plug in and walk away to pee and get a coffee. Easier than a gas pump. The car should be able to identify itself to the charger; save all this silly faff.

@@bearcubdaycareThe problem is that not all EV makers thought on that, so most cars can't identify themselves to the charger. Tesla works for Teslas...other cars don't on Tesla chargers.

In North America, that NETWORK will be owned by Tesla which will have control over how much YOU pay.

@@StephenShawCanada North America isn't limited to one network bud

But new EVs have zero added tax, that is, for vehicles with a sticker price of approximately less than US $50,000. Any amount above that threshold is taxed at 25%.

This doesn't seem high to me. This is roughly the same tax in most EU member states.

@@dimiathan I think that info is for americans, most states there don't have any value added tax

What about Vodka ?

We use RFID. but you need to associate that to an account/payment method. But for a tourist.....you have to do all that.

Norway 2011, first supercharger: Charging company: Credit cards are outdated, Apps is what everyone want to use. People: We want to use our Credit card. Norway 2012 Charging company: Apps are what everyone want to use. People: We want to use our Credit card. Norway 2013 Charging company: Apps are what everyone want to use. People: We want to use our Credit card. Norway 2014 Charging company: Apps are what everyone want to use. People: We want to use our Credit card. Norway 2015 Charging company: Apps are what everyone wants to use. People: We want to use our credit card. Norway 2016 Charging company: Apps are what everyone wants to use. People: We want to use our credit card. Norway 2017 Charging company: Apps are what everyone wants to use. People: We want to use our credit card. Norway 2018 Charging company: Apps are what everyone wants to use. People: We want to use our credit card. Norway 2019 Charging company: Apps are what everyone wants to use. People: We want to use our credit card. Norway 2020 Charging company: Apps are what everyone wants to use. People: We want to use our credit card. Norway 2021 Charging company: Apps are what everyone wants to use. People: We want to use our credit card. Norway 2022 EU: You will have to install Credit Card reader: Charging company: But nobody wants that. People: WE WANT TO USE OUR CREDIT CARD!!!!!!

From 2024 all new chargers need to have a card reader so people can pay with cards. It will eventually be on old chargers too.

@@dubious6718 Norway or the US?

norway. but its only for new installed ones. not the old.@@tijgerhaai3

Many Americans do not realize that the United States is the world's largest oil producer. It also consumes a lot, but it exports more than it imports.

Are you even educated? Scaling up things to the extant of the US is in another universe.

Yes, Norway went electric 100 years ago... which makes sense considering how the whole country is basically rivers and cliffs. There is a reason the biggest heavy water production plant was in Norway. Lots of hydropower

No one said the US hasn't benefited greatly from oil. Everyone knows that, everyone talks about that. The difference is few people know or acknowledge that about Norway as well. Sure, you invested in hydropower early on. That's because your geography lent itself to that. Norway is a tiny country with a tiny population and great geography. The US has great geography as well, but it is a massive country with a massive population, it would be impossible to implement 100% hydropower in the US, which is one of many reasons why it's silly to compare the two countries, which is what this video is about.

@@trizzybones True, the US has been a poor steward of our energy resources, both giving them away too cheaply to private interests (i.e. unlike Norway, the vast majority of energy resource wealth was privatized vs held in public trust) and subsidizing energy resources and upstream industries to the tune of many tens of trillions of dollars over the course of a century, making e.g. gas, cars, suburban homes etc... seem cheap, and inevitable. The shape and resource mix of our energy grids, the geography of our cities etc... wasn't inevitable or even mainly driven by the natural geography and demographics (not since ~1920s anyway) but rather by industry, lobbying, and individualism/a narrow conception of the commons.

...yup. And I get to do it 0,00% of the time...

I’ve used rented EVs in Germany and the Netherlands and my experience with paying for charging has been quite annoying. Not only do you have to figure out if the charger in question even works with your existing credit card, app or RFID charging card/token, but also you have to figure out which company offers the best rate for it. I’m talking €0,39 versus €0,79 per kWh, for example. It is currently a Wild West scenario and screaming for regulation. Still, I kind of like this sort of treasure hunt and I will happily keep preferring EV rentals over tailpipe cars.

that's what you get with early adoption of technology I guess, I am sure in time they will sort out the problems with it. I dont think there is many paid chargers in the country I live Australia, and I think the tesla owners for the most part are charging at home.@@CX103

Unless you have a Tesla and charge at a Tesla supercharger. Then all you do is plug in and the charging starts. And they always work.

The EU comes to our aid here, with rules for e-roaming so that you can use your own solution to pay for any charger anywhere in EU/EEA, by 2027 at the latest.

Where does your electricity come from.....my fellow Americans don't seem to understand that almost all of their electricity comes from fossil fuels and ignore the all of the components that are mined overseas to make their janky electric vehicle......thank God most Americans reject these over priced blah vehicles that no one is buying.

kilometre . . .

Thats about 6250 km for free, does not sound much but someone should not look at the horses teeth if the horse is for free.

@@hermes667 Fair enough!

Super. For now. Wait until EVERYONE is mandated one. The grid goes down for months and you have to wipe your ass in total darkness. Good luck.

I live in Australia and the amount of fuel guzzling monsters, mainly from the US, is stupid. Australia leads in rooftop solar but is a decade behind in EV’s thanks to the fossil fuel industry buying politicians.

It is an electric hell now utopia 🤢🤢🤮 The WEST hypocrisy at the extreme🤢🤢🤮 They cry saving the planet, while they actually helping big fossil fuel mafia to keep trading overseas & save authoritarian regimes 🤢🤢🤮

Australia has been going down the gurgler for years. We have basically lost the plot and unable to implement the right policies anymore. And the reason for this is political infighting. Since 1930 Australia had only nine changes of government BUT in the period from 2007 to 2018 - a period of just 11 years - Australia had 7 prime ministers. It’s been one coup after another. No wonder we can't get our act together anymore when egos of politicians get in the way of progress. It's embarrassing.

Well then, pack your bags and move into the "workers' paradise".

@@optimusmaximus9646 Doesn't help when one political party denies climate change is real.

Bjørn would approve 👍🏻

Charging is not an issue with me either, i have 570 miles of range. When i do have to stop, im up and out in 3 to 5 minutes. It sure beats haveing to sit and stay awhile.

Did you just put a signature to your KZfaq comment?

@@Warpgatez Better now?

did you do it during winter or summer?

Low corruption. You can't have superpacs

Easy to do that when a country has a population smaller than NYC

@@natilyfe and is oil-rich.

Norway is 30 times smaller than America only has a population of 5 million people... America has 332 million people. The American power grid could never handle this. Norway is around 90% renewable hydro energy. America doesnt have many dams and natural energy, most the power comes from coal and nuclear plants. so how would you supply the extra power needed from a higher demand caused by ev's? burn more coal? more nuclear power plants? it's not always as simple as black or white/yes or no... there are many things that people dont consider when talking about this subject.

@@hairlessvulture9501 Definitely makes sense. It's just the sheer determination of the Norwegian government toward the welfare of their people that I find very commendable

Well, yes, you can probably make pigs fly with enough subsidies, tax breaks, taxing alternatives to death etc.

I'm from Oslo, and I don't see how this is improving anything. The air quality was already good before EVs became a thing, and EVs are dirty to both produce and dispose off.

and your a Democrat

@@hevnervalsAre you being paid by the oil industry?

@@lcama5178 I wish

The US borrows money to then give to Ukraine. Why doesn't Ukraine just borrow the money themselves. Sure they will be paying off for the next 200 years but the UK only recently finished paying back ww2 loans form the US

@@jacksmith7726 USA gave weapons not actual cash (for most part)

@@sender5804Which had a price tag and the payment plan did not include "return ship for full refund" instead it was "pay this amount plus interest, even if you let the ship sink."

@@TruthFiction old weapons get decommissioned anyways so its not the same as cash

@@sender5804 Your point? England wanted weapons, not cash. They couldn't exactly drop bundles of coins on Germany hoping that would destroy their factories just like they couldn't line the sides of ships with enough bank notes to stop torpedoes.

Norwegian (Haugesund) here.. I can't wait for Rogfast to be done... a ferryfree trip still seems imaginary for me. Considering that Rogfast will take 15 years (if it opens on schedule) I'm not sure a ferryfree E39 will happen in our lifetime, non of the other projects has even left the planning stage. I'd recommend doing the E39 trip sooner rather than later, most ferries serve food and beverages as well as having WC.

There are third party apps that do what the Tesla navigation does, like ABRP, that tells you which charging stops to take and for how long to reach your destination in the shortest time as well. Sure, it will not know if a charger works/is busy, but it works with any available charging points and any cars.

There are so many reasons why doing what Norway has done would be so difficult/impossible for other countries

@@LAndrewsChannel Yes, a headache. Useless. So long it is not dummy-proof like with Tesla's, in my books it remains as a useless vehicle. I've had a F150 Lightning for a while and before that I had an ID.3. Both are garbage when you need to rely on charging away from home. They are OK otherwise. Both vehicles were from work, not my own! Terrible software and for updates you have to drive to the dealer 🤣

Tax the billionaires.

​@@Henry_Jr_Watsson It is not a "headache". It is called planning ahead which everyone should do in every aspect of their life. The app helps with that, but you should also be able to do it on your own. You are saying "They are OK otherwise" but also that they are "useless vehicle"(s)? Which one is it?

In America, the grid and production capacity are massively underutilized most places except during a couple of hours a day of peak usage. 20-22 hours a day, most of the capacity sits unused.

And 90% of the population actually lives in the south eastern area… so they don’t have to drive very far ever.

@dirkfromhein Nor do they need to. It's public transit is very well developed

​@@bearcubdaycareokay, but the problem is people want to charge their cars at the same time.. During peak hours... So saying that the greatest underutilized during hours that don't want to charge is useless. And this is coming from the person that invested in this stuff and is going to benefit from it. You guys are paying all my bills. But whatever. Push ahead. I might be able to buy my own lambo soon instead of having to ask my mom... Not cool...

And all their forex is by selling dirty fossil fuels and so they are obsessed in creating a fake eco friendly image.

So is Colorado where I live and use my EV (the only car I have).

And, the Norwegians are smart enough not to go too far when it's cold.

yes they can i know a alternative to make it take temps up to -38 degrees celsius

Range is severely diminished in the cold no matter where in the world you are. Luckily for Norway, they don't really drive that far and when they do there's always a charger within spitting distance

@@travellingslimFrom memory they said they dive to the mountains and to Sweden. And they said the range drops from 400km from 320km.

And under Biden over 8 million illegals have entered the country.

To put this into perspective Norway started doing something in the 90's, while New York City....

Excuses excuses excuses

What about the New York City hydro projects..... oh wait, no mountains, they have to import everything.

Ah so Norway has almost 3 times the land mass of New York State, but only one quarter of the population to fund building out the infrastructure. Well done Norway.

Yes, I agree.

Most Americans just do not want an electric car and if they continue randomly catching on fire and burning people alive, they will become very unpopular here.

We need to catch up in terms of building infrastructure and stuff, don't have the charger capability to handle it all, they are 8-10 years ahead of us

They have to take into account climate for EVs also. We had a cold snap which caused it to be difficult for EVs to hold a charge. Will there have to be pre heaters like diesel for extreme cold weather?

@@suzannebinsley5940 Electric cars have onboard battery heaters and a battery management system. A lithium battery cannot be charged when its internal temperature drops below freezing. If they do get below freezing the onboard battery management system senses the internal battery temperature and locks out the changing circuit. My solar batteries here in Arkansas got locked out from cold weather this January. The Norwegians are not having a problem with the cold weather. But since the battery heater uses some electricity, they need to charge the battery more often. The batteries themselves automatically create some internal heat when they are being charged and discharged. The only concern I can see would be the off chance that Putin might strike the electrical grid in the dead of winter and there was no shore power for the battery heater. But when I mention this to them, they just brush it off claiming the battery can last for 3 or 4 days and it is not a concern.

"Top off"? How about F-ing off?

Yes. But that one time a year you do it's a living hell. A ev is definitely way less convenient cars. And usually way less premium. The insane price is you paying for RND. They also depreciate 8x worse than normal cars since they are constantly evolving. A ev is definitely more expensive in the long run but if your country pays you to buy one its most likely not that much more expensive. But don't buy one thinking it's good for the environment. Because it's worse unless you live in a country with a power grid like Norway. In the us it's idiotic to buy a ev.

@@OutOfNameIdeas2 Weird. We took our Tesla from Norway to Spain on holiday last summer and crossed the Alps via Italy and Switzerland on our way back home, and it wasn't a living hell at all. It was a rather good experience really. It does take a bit more time than with an ICE-vehicle, but as long as you're prepared for that it's all good. The year before we went to Croatia in the same car, also via the alps both ways, cause we love the views of the Alps. No problems. Our car didn't depreciate 8x what any other car would either, so the FUD you're serving is wrong in that regard too. As far as the environment goes, Forbes had an article a few years ago with the headline "Yes, Electric Cars Are Cleaner, Even When The Power Comes From Coal". Good reading.

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Thanks to Mrs Amanda Chris.

She's a licensed broker here in the states

After I raised up to 325k trading with her I bought a new House and a car here in the states 🇺🇸🇺🇸also paid for my son's surgery (Oscar). Glory to God.shalom..

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yes and the police i now armed because putin

Really a missed opportunity

omg i wasn't the only one thinking this! 😥

Holy macaroni!

Not really, lots of false information here.

@@OddEdland I'd say it was about 95% accurate.

They forgot to tell that the Norwegian automotive market have crashed into oblivion. It's not about making the transfer from gasoline to electric. It's about taxing away petrol cars and making the whole market shrink. We are not supposed to drive EVs, we are supposed to drive nothing at all. EVs are a Scam.

Love my gas powered cars …

Why do you own two cars? That seems wasteful and bad for the environment.

@@two-sense The majority with EVs own 2 or more cars, cause one has to charge...

@@two-sense location, married, two kids. Tried one car, but was a problem for the lack of collective transport in my area. Had two petrol cars which I drove to their demise after 20 years, one got a second life lucky and still lives 😊. Bought my first new cars ever and most likely for a long time. But, yes, you wanna save the environment no car is the best choice. Walking, biking, bus beats all.

So you own a single family home, not renting an appartment I guess?

Let us explain to this fool how it works here: When you get hired lots of companies offer a lease car. Which you can drive up to 5 years / 150.000 km. Then the car goes back to the lease company. It's not about green or not. It just gets sold on the second hand market or leased as a second hand car. So it will again be used. You think it goes to the scrapyard? You know really nothing right? That's how lots of people end up driving 3 cars in more than 10 years. Understood?

@@HermanWillems 😘

Yes, because they tax ICE cars with a 60% import duty. They waive that tax on EV’s. Not exactly freedom of choice.

@@user-vx7vi3vq1c You don't need choice! The future is electric! EVs are not taxed at all in Denmark apart from VAT. The choice is easy! It stands between pollution and global warming - or clean energy and no emissions! I made the choice 2 and a half years ago, and now drive an EV and will NEVER return to an ICE car! The cost of driving an EV is 1/4 of an ICE car, so it makes sense what you choose...

@@JunkerOnDrums You don’t need choice? Ok Stalin! Just obey and be happy with what the government allows. 😂 Why do you hate freedom so much?

@@JunkerOnDrums

@@JunkerOnDrums Yes, in your country which is your luck. In most other countries, EVs are typically more expensive to drive than ICE-cars. Many wealthy countries started to add tax on EVs lately, making them less appealing. I drive a Model 3 Performance, which is great. But sadly, it is becoming very expensive. In The Netherlands they changed the roadtax law from CO2 emissions to vehicle weight 😅That combined with very high energy prices here due to high tax might force me to go back to an ICE Hybrid. Hybrids are cheaper, but not a lot cheaper to run yet here.

It is, and I feel incredibly lucky and grateful for being born in this country.

I visited Norway once. Unfortunately every country I have visited since is disappointing in comparison. I think I finally realize that Norway is the only country I want to visit from now on.

good bye

I was there in 2018. It is a great country. My stepparents are retired and spend 3 months each year in Norway.

It is boring to live here, the weather is awful.

America has enough people that upgrading the infrastructure shouldn't be a problem

They claim 99.95% uptime, even.

The topics were not covered thoroughly at all. The questions were clearly not based on having done research - just general acceptance of common electric car folklore. The result is misinformation that should be addressed is not.

@@cycladelec6575 thank you for responding to my comments. Every opinion matters.

That was because it was articulated long busses with rear wheel drive, regardless of ev or diesel. The normal sized busses handles it fine.

More people use Snus in Scandinavia than smoke cigarettes.

Yes I have to wonder how this piece made it past the CNBC censors who require at least seven or eight pieces of disinformation, Tesla bashing, or fossil fuel promotion in every one of their other videos that I've ever seen any way on climate change, electrification, or transportation.. I wonder if some editor got this past the executives and is now catching hell for it. As people may or may not know the C in CNBC stands for Comcast, easily the most sociopathic Media company in the history of mankind.

They probably thought it would not get back into our country. 🇺🇲✝️

Well technically they somehow managed to have problems charging at a Tesla Supercharger, which does seem weird. Pretty sure the app is available in English.

Yup, the greedy corporatocracy didn't benefit at all.... /me smiles with tesla stock. Yup.... You keep believing that. Lol... Thinking you can get around investors..... God, this was the best investment. Normally, you just make money. But making money, while people praise your investment and say that it was for the common good, and that no one benefited. Lol. Stop. You're making me too happy. There were and are other stocks benefiting, but I'm not giving those undervalued ones up. Lesson of the day though. We always win.

Norway stopped supporting big auto, to instead support tesla, a company bigger than all big auto combined. Good work. Lol. I just can't. 😂😂😂

@@Tential1 maybe because at that time only tesla has electric vehicle to produce and sell?

​@@Leerzej90Policy should be technology neutral. Per dollar emissions reductions from efficiency improvements to ICE cars is greater than selling expensive EVs and should have been preferred. This is a religion.

With the US having adopted the absurd premises that money is speech and corporations are people, its particular form of toxic capitalism has only become more deeply entrenched and ruinously invidious. Which in turn further disenfranchises the People and makes for a growing disenchantment for democracy and the notion of Government even working for that People. Hence the current divisiveness that has that blighted land on the verge of establishing a new axis of evil with Russia.

Exactly!

Exactly. They will tax petrol cars out of existence and then double tax electric cars to cover lost revenue.

North Korea has a lower CO2 emission because 98 % of the population are unable or directly not allowed to own a car of any type, and they survive by walking and biking because public transport is also shunned by the average citizen, because most people would rather walk and buy extra bread/rice/sweets than to pay for a bus. You can try for a million years, but you will NEVER beat "poverty" when it comes to sustainability, and especially not with Gov. programs. Since Norway has the EV mandate but not poverty, the total CO2 footprint per capita is miles above the Planetary average ( absurdly out of order ) and will stay that way until Norway is 1. Saved by Russia or 2. Saved by a total collapse of society. Yes, it all looks great on the surface and that's exactly how rotten the system is.

have you seen norwegian prices for electricity, food, oil ......?

@@Kolex06 yes - they are low compared to our income.

Walking along the sidewalks in London, I was surprised to see EV charging outlets built into lampposts.

Norwegians don't have such big bladders.

​@@beehappy7797 Me either as an American. I stop every 200 to 300 km (120-180 miles or so).

1000km on one tank? Goddamn that's 621 miles. That's insane

Would go for an BEV and rent that 2-3x per anno a sharing car instead of running that stinky useless ICE all yeahr arround rotting and paying for no use.