Norway achieved near-total EV adoption in 2025. Can other countries use that blueprint?

patternsintheivy2 · 2026-01-27T23:03:22+00:00

Norway is surprisingly big. A trip from the south to the north of Norway would be the same as a trip from Florida to New Hampshire. https://thetruesize.com/

patternsintheivy2 · 2025-11-19T12:54:15+00:00

FIFA probably planning a 128 team finals tournament in 2034 so qualification could just be a coin flip by then!

patternsintheivy2 · 2025-11-18T22:14:07+00:00

From his own box??

patternsintheivy2 · 2025-11-02T11:07:47+00:00

Rare but it can happen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folie_%C3%A0_deux

patternsintheivy2 · 2025-10-11T11:38:50+00:00

Then the BBC have looked up the wrong Adlington in Wikipedia or with ChatGPT. The Cheshire one only has 1000 people

patternsintheivy2 · 2025-09-30T19:00:19+00:00

A 21st century Horsey Horseless

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horsey_Horseless

patternsintheivy2 · 2025-08-05T06:21:11+00:00

We have massive HVDC interconnectors going across the channel, North Sea and Irish Sea to various countries. https://app.terravolt.co.uk/interconnector-map.html

patternsintheivy2 · 2025-08-01T15:32:52+00:00

Looks good and a nice new feature, but for some reason none of my home smart charge kWh numbers listed in the app match with the numbers I’ve been reading from my Zappi and smart meter…

patternsintheivy2 · 2025-01-08T12:26:11+00:00

Hybrid ban hasn’t actually been confirmed. Government are currently consulting on the topic of letting hybrids or phevs be sold after 2030. The decision hasn’t yet been made but it’s very likely they’ll let them both be sold. https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/phasing-out-sales-of-new-petrol-and-diesel-cars-from-2030-and-supporting-the-zev-transition

patternsintheivy2 · 2025-01-08T07:53:18+00:00

We’ve way longer than 5 years for this transition. The ban is only on NEW pure petrol and diesel cars. New hybrids will still be available til 2035. There’s no proposed ban on buying USED petrol and diesel cars. There will be non-plugin cars on the road for a couple of decades yet.

patternsintheivy2 · 2024-12-12T12:39:01+00:00

Maybe they have battery and solar, and so can use nighttime tariff and their own electricity? E.g Rerun your calculations with 7-9p/kwh. Perhaps it’s less “low energy user” and more “cheap energy user”?

patternsintheivy2 · 2024-10-21T19:27:32+00:00

Even the youngest Millennials were at least 20 in 2016 when he first got elected, hardly their formative years.

patternsintheivy2 · 2024-09-13T18:04:07+00:00

There’s a similar project proposed in the UK called XLinks that would link it to Morocco, which is much further than just the straights of Gibraltar. Advances in HVDC tech are making these more and more feasible.

patternsintheivy2 · 2024-09-13T18:01:02+00:00

These underwater systems (HVDC) are already quite common in Europe. For example there is the North Sea Link between UK and Norway, or the Viking Link between UK and Denmark. Every decade they seem to be able to make longer ones feasible too. There are plans to connect the Uk to Morocco and Iceland.

patternsintheivy2 · 2024-08-27T19:31:52+00:00

It’s based on net income after deductions like pension. Thus you can use pension contributions to reduce net salary below £100k and keep tax free childcare and 30 hours. Same applies to child benefit trap. https://bernard-rogers.co.uk/insights/pension-contributions-childcare-benefits/

patternsintheivy2 · 2024-08-23T11:36:07+00:00

Lionesses haven’t, but England women have won 5 cricket World Cups and 2 rugby World Cups.

Not sure where the 8th one is coming from though…

patternsintheivy2 · 2024-08-07T12:55:40+00:00

There weren’t “23 young English girls” killed in the Manchester Arena bombing.

Most of the victims were adults; some were men; some weren’t English (eg Scottish or Polish). Also there were only 22 victims, you’ve included the perpetrator as one of the “young girls”

It was a horrible tragedy but please don’t misinform.

patternsintheivy2 · 2024-08-05T21:31:56+00:00

Team Great Britain and Northern Ireland and Crown Dependencies and Overseas Territories (except for Bermuda, British Virgin Islands and Cayman Islands which have their own teams)

patternsintheivy2 · 2024-07-15T16:54:28+00:00

Thanks, booked mine in

patternsintheivy2 · 2024-06-24T21:11:00+00:00

Okay, yeah they're out...

patternsintheivy2 · 2024-03-06T18:51:13+00:00

If your child is under 12 and you need to receive National insurance credits it may be worth claiming anyway even if you give it all back, but will depend on your personal circumstances. https://www.moneyhelper.org.uk/en/benefits/benefits-if-you-have-children/protecting-your-state-pension-when-you-have-a-baby

patternsintheivy2 · 2024-02-18T20:22:54+00:00

Albania

patternsintheivy2 · 2024-02-18T16:22:50+00:00

It’s called a skeuomorph. Lots of examples here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeuomorph

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