I’m sitting in our apartment in Bergen, Norway and out the window, parked on the street, I can see a full range of electric cars. There’s a Kia Niro, Hyundai Ioniq 5, two BMW i3s, and both a Tesla Model 3 and Model Y. This is what the future looks like and it’s fully electric. With demand in the US growing, and now California banning the sale of internal combustion (ICE) cars by 2035, the US might look a lot like Norway in a few years.

For the last several years, owning an Electric Vehicle has been about as good as it can get. Sure, there are headaches still between the pain of ordering and actually getting one, the cost, and the availability of chargers everywhere you might want to go, but for the most part, it was a Golden Age where you could order and get a car fairly quickly, tax credits were widely available and simple, chargers were plentiful enough but never packed, and each car seemed unique and different.

It’s been almost two months since I last posted a blog. I’ve done a pretty decent job of writing most weeks since I started this project back in 2014, posting almost weekly for 8 years. But lately things have been hectic, I’ve been occupied with other hobbies and running the kids around, and I just didn’t know what to write about, so I stopped. In the meantime, several people have told me how much they enjoy reading my posts and I feel bad letting them down, so I’m pledging to get back to it now.