Everyone knows that kids are incredibly resilient and can be very elastic with adapting to changes and learning, but recently my kids have really demonstrated to me just how much they learn and how fast they can pick things up. This fall, my kids, the 6 year old twins and the two and a half year old, showed me just how fast they can adapt to other cultures and experiences on our trip to Europe as well as a long road trip and hiking in Acadia National Park, all while starting back up at school.

Kids are hell on a car. Ever since we moved to a Tesla Model Y from the 3, we’ve been using the car far more as a family and taking trips with all three of our young boys almost non-stop. But that means they drop drinks, crush goldfish into dust, and generally touch every single bit of the car with sticky fingers. I finally have a way to prevent these from destroying my car thanks to Tesla Shields’ floor mats.

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.