Another question is who pays to fix the heater if it breaks, and if you get your fee back for the period it was broken. This easily adds complexity to owning a car.

You don't need to go high up in the mountains even, you just need to go further away from the coast for the temperatures to drop quickly. Karasjok is, I believe, at an elevation of 141 meters, and it can be fairly cold there (record is -51.4C or close to that).

Also: length. Closer to 2800 km of mostly windy roads crossing mountain passes and twisting around whatever terrain or moose was in the way when they built it if you go between Lindesnes and Kirkenes ;-)

A lot of these factors caused people to be sceptical towards electrical cars, and many people still are. Reducing taxes on the cars is one way of coercing people into trying.

For myself, I bought a plug in hybrid in 2014 (no tax benefits), and I just ordered a new one. 4WD electric or hybrids are really nice on slippery roads (especially for hills). We did consider a fully electric car, but the charging infrastructure in the northern parts of the country are still not quite there for a one car family (unless you can justify buying a Tesla ;-) ).

10 types perhaps ;-)

What? Are we related somehow? I've pondered over the blue lint for years ;-)

I guess this calls for a new product name: the ipad stretch ;)

I totally agree. It feels like we've landed in the stone age, but with pretty makeup.

Two of the features I'm missing in any of the web based forums: a) tracking which messages I have read and which are new, and b) scoring (which was possible to do with more than killfiles).

With usenet it was actually possible to follow discussions that developed over time without spending too much time on it. With web based forums, you have to remember and filter out manually what you have read. It feels more like drive-by-discussions where people shout quick opinions out of the car window, but you never get to discuss stuff with them before they are gone.