Aye, even Norway with EVs at 98%+ of new car registrations is at more than about 20% of total number of vehicles.

Having said that, I’m still glad that the EV share at the German market is increasing. And I do wonder how many read the title as anything other than “of new car sales market”

Fail the 2035 and see German autoindustry fail.

Hit the target and it still might.

So are their cows:p

Anyways, this is the second oil country going full electric. Speaks volumes!

For the 1% that are actually able to drive non-stop for more than 5 hours, its a downside. Anyone that normally travel with someone with less than perfect bladder control will find that extra stops for charging will not be necessary.

All the Swedish reactors had to close down simultaneously in the middle of winter creating the need to fire up the (oil fueled) reserves for 72 hours.

It probably is the same, as they share energy market. In both cases it is also because of lackluster transmission capacity to the rest of the continent, that shields Spain and Portugal from the German market. Sweden has plenty of transmission capacity, so we pay German prices in the south of Sweden.

As for “not using fossil fuel for electricity”, in 2022 the Swedish oil fired power reserve was used for 72 to stabilize the polish market, due to all nuclear reactors shutting down simultaneously. Yet Swedish electricity price is still tied to the cost of oil. That transmission capacity has its drawbacks…

We need to move to Huddiksvall. There seems to be a city where its possible😁 But come to think of it, it all takes place from “behind the meter”, so with a connection that allows for solar power, the utility should be none-the-wiser.

Interesting! I didn’t know there are cars in the market able to handle V2G in accordance with the standard. What brand is that? For any large organisation with lots of cars, like a community, flexibility services for a hundred cars or so would add up quickly.

You are reading too far. The example OP is pointing to is “Microsoft has the power to disrupt the government of a sovereign country. There needs to be an alternative” anything after that is an example of something like that happening. Whether you, as the reader, agree with that action in that particular circumstance depends highly on what side of which border it happened and on what side of which border the reader lives.

I’m a beginner myself, and while I do have a GPU (unsure how much that speeds up things) I have found the qwen3-coder has been almost a cheatcode when problem solving the various issues that otherwise would have me search different forums for hours.

It must be a question of what “mass market” mean? I’ve been to sodium battery installations using CATL batteries and I’m rather far from any of the markets that are hot spots…

Aye, and it’s not limited to software development either. I’ve always seen generative AI as a way of augmenting knowledge, not replacing it.

Perhaps that not a single reference to the article is about measuring the benefits of forests. Therefore I am lead to believe that the benefits of current land use is not adequately valued, neither in dollar value, not carbon value.

Besides, the option should be putting solar in rooftops and above parking lots and above roads etc. Not taking pristine land for such a endeavour. That way we get the benefit of BOTH the solar farm and the forest, so almost 100% better.

Well, its basically why range is still an issue. Winter range, not summer range. Buuuut it’s still planable, so it’s not much of an issue. As the Nordics show. Oslo, Stockholm and Helsinki are all as far north as anchorage. Doesn’t stop the Norwegians from going almost all electric. 95%+ of all new cars are fully electric in Norway and pure ICE is at about 33% in Sweden. Personally I prefer electric in the cold.

Most of all jobs. If it wasn’t for that, I’d move back.

However, I agree with the writer, apartments are the easiest living space to afford. Limiting apartment building limits the choices of those that have little money. I’m not saying the cheapest, since the value of properties tend to increase, but the one requiring the least money.

That being said, the ones complaining about new apartments are mostly people living in other apartments… At least here.

As for city vs rural… That’s something of an age question, as well.

In theory. In theory some can rent a car with property XYZ. And for “sometimes but often enough” long trips those rental charges adds up fast.

While I agree in general, the decline of gas stations started long before now. The first reports i can find about the rapidly declining number of gas stations are from the later part of the -00s. Back then it was because cars had better mileage, but it also highlights that petrol stations don’t go bust because 100% of customers disappear. They go bust because 100% of the profits disappear and if the profit margin is only a few percent, that doesn’t necessarily take much at all.

There are other factors as well. When a commodity goes from a high volume, low margin commodity to a high value necessity, prices will start to come up.

I also wonder what happens further up the production chain. It isn’t just cars that are affected, transportation is too. The big push right now is for electrified heavy road transport. And if dents are made in that sector, the real high volume fuel, effects will be seen in everything from transportation to agriculture.

As for car parts, SAAB went bust in 2008 and there are still plenty of those around. However, that was before the digital revolution, so they are easier (not easy) DIY cars. Finding dealer specific experts with required skills and software is harder for newer cars.

I see potential, but ultimately it comes down to cost, energy density and time to market.

4,2MWh in a 40 footer is more than the 2MWh we see today, but it is still not enough. A city in the 100k-region can be at the 80MW mark, so with 4,2MWh@0.01C it would take 2000 containers to be able to run that city for the 100 hours spoken about in the article.

Don’t get me wrong, it is an incredible achievement, not least geopolitically, but for it to take off costs need to be low. If they are at price parity with LFP/sodium batteries I’ll want 1 for testing. If they are at half the cost I will start looking for places to stack containers.

Refinery shut down has already started in Europe^^, and those left are trying to find alternative markets.

I’m across the border from you, but i mostly use my card to charge. It’s rare, I can think of one bigger provider requiring their own app, but it doesn’t differ one bit from the petrol companies loyalty programs: “become a member and save X cents/liter and ger your own credit card”…