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  • focuszing723
    focuszing723 Posts: 8,194

  • focuszing723
    focuszing723 Posts: 8,194
    OSLO, Jan 3 (Reuters) - The sale of electric cars in Norway rose last year by 48%, ensuring that almost two out of every three new automobiles were battery powered and making Texas-based Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) the top selling brand.

    Seeking to become the first nation to end the sale of petrol and diesel cars by 2025, oil-producing Norway exempts battery electric vehicles (BEVs) from taxes imposed on rivals using internal combusion engines (ICE).

    Tesla grabbed an 11.5% share the overall car market, making it the number one brand for the first time on a full-year basis ahead of Germany's Volkswagen (VOWG_p.DE) with 9.4%.

    The U.S. auto maker on Sunday reported record quarterly deliveries that far exceeded Wall Street estimates, riding out global chip shortages as it ramped up China production. read more

    The Tesla Model 3 was the single most popular model of the year ahead of Toyota's (7203.T) hybrid RAV4, the sole car among the top-10 with an internal combustion engine, and Volkswagen's (VOWG_p.DE) electric ID.4 in third place.
    https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/electric-cars-take-two-thirds-norway-car-market-led-by-tesla-2022-01-03/

    I'm surprised really, given batteries don't work as well in colder climates and you don't get the same kind of by-product heating of combustion engines.
  • focuszing723
    focuszing723 Posts: 8,194
    Seeking to become the first nation to end the sale of petrol and diesel cars by 2025,

    I'm surprised at that too.
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,631
    Anyone got shares in Tesla by any chance?
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
    I am not sure. You have no chance.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    edited January 2022
    pblakeney said:

    Anyone got shares in Tesla by any chance?

    Most of us will do if we have fairly normal pensions…..though some of you are very old so perhaps not all of us 😉
    _
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,631
    rick_chasey said:

    pblakeney said:

    Anyone got shares in Tesla by any chance?

    Most of us will do if we have fairly normal pensions…..though some of you are very old so perhaps not all of us 😉
    I meant in personal portfolio.
    I get more product placement on here than any other source. 😉
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
    I am not sure. You have no chance.
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,692
    pblakeney said:

    Anyone got shares in Tesla by any chance?

    I'm beginning to think Focuszing might actually be Musk.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    edited January 2022
    Oh that is absolutely an element of my dislike of the firm; there’s a proper army of Tesla fanbois who take it all incredibly seriously and pile on attacks on critics - including joe public punters asking for advice on faults and repairs for their Tesla cars.

    Focus is incredibly mild by comparison
    _
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,302


    Final tweet in the thread is 👌
  • Ben6899
    Ben6899 Posts: 9,686
    Stephanie never had gas/indigestion before?
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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,639
    How strange ^.
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,302
    Being able to buy the farts as NFTs is the logical conclusion.
  • Ben6899
    Ben6899 Posts: 9,686
    Oh totally.
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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,639
    kingstongraham said:

    Being able to buy the farts as NFTs is the logical conclusion.

    This is not new - they sold Scotch mist in jars in the US in the 70's.
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,692
    Just sell a jar and tell people you have odourless farts.
  • webboo
    webboo Posts: 6,087
    pinno said:

    kingstongraham said:

    Being able to buy the farts as NFTs is the logical conclusion.

    This is not new - they sold Scotch mist in jars in the US in the 70's.
    A jar of farts versus a jar of Scottish mist. Difficult choice there.
  • monkimark
    monkimark Posts: 1,974
    I don't know who she is but I'd be happy to give her a good deal on jars of farts that she can label them as her own before flogging them on
  • orraloon
    orraloon Posts: 13,308
    kingstongraham said:

    Being able to buy the farts as NFTs is the logical conclusion.

    Highly logical captain

    https://gizmodo.com/tiktok-star-who-sells-her-farts-in-jars-starts-selling-1848305521
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,302
    orraloon said:

    kingstongraham said:

    Being able to buy the farts as NFTs is the logical conclusion.

    Highly logical captain

    https://gizmodo.com/tiktok-star-who-sells-her-farts-in-jars-starts-selling-1848305521
    Yes, was in the last tweet in the thread, not any prediction by me! None of it makes sense, so NFTs fit right in.
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 22,090
    This

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-59733291

    Her real name remains a secret and, until relatively recently, she didn't show her face on social media.


    and this

    Gemma Victoria Walker[2], known as PinkPantheress (born 18 April 2001[3]) is an English singer, songwriter, and record producer.


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

  • focuszing723
    focuszing723 Posts: 8,194
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Szr5Dcwn4Y
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,302
    edited January 2022
    TheBigBean said:

    This

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-59733291

    Her real name remains a secret and, until relatively recently, she didn't show her face on social media.


    and this

    Gemma Victoria Walker[2], known as PinkPantheress (born 18 April 2001[3]) is an English singer, songwriter, and record producer.


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

    The page that wikipedia links to has been updated to remove that piece of information, so might not be 100% reliable.

  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 22,090
    kingstongraham said:

    TheBigBean said:

    This

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-59733291

    Her real name remains a secret and, until relatively recently, she didn't show her face on social media.


    and this

    Gemma Victoria Walker[2], known as PinkPantheress (born 18 April 2001[3]) is an English singer, songwriter, and record producer.


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

    The page that wikipedia links to has been updated to remove that piece of information, so might not be 100% reliable.

    But they interviewed her at home. Someone must have gone to school with her or know her in some capacity. Once someone is doing interviews in person on TV, I don't think it is that easy to hide.
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,302
    TheBigBean said:

    kingstongraham said:

    TheBigBean said:

    This

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-59733291

    Her real name remains a secret and, until relatively recently, she didn't show her face on social media.


    and this

    Gemma Victoria Walker[2], known as PinkPantheress (born 18 April 2001[3]) is an English singer, songwriter, and record producer.


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

    The page that wikipedia links to has been updated to remove that piece of information, so might not be 100% reliable.

    But they interviewed her at home. Someone must have gone to school with her or know her in some capacity. Once someone is doing interviews in person on TV, I don't think it is that easy to hide.
    True enough.

    Good tunes though. Makes me realise that stuff I think is modern music is actually about 20 years old because it sounds like this.
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,631
    Was thinking about this last night.
    The Prodigy album Experience is closer to Chuck Berry's More Chuck Berry than today.
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
    I am not sure. You have no chance.
    Veronese68 wrote:
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  • monkimark
    monkimark Posts: 1,974
    Ha, same here - it's giving me late 90's in the back of my mates car at 2am flashbacks.
    kingstongraham said:

    TheBigBean said:

    kingstongraham said:

    TheBigBean said:

    This

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-59733291

    Her real name remains a secret and, until relatively recently, she didn't show her face on social media.


    and this

    Gemma Victoria Walker[2], known as PinkPantheress (born 18 April 2001[3]) is an English singer, songwriter, and record producer.


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

    The page that wikipedia links to has been updated to remove that piece of information, so might not be 100% reliable.

    But they interviewed her at home. Someone must have gone to school with her or know her in some capacity. Once someone is doing interviews in person on TV, I don't think it is that easy to hide.
    True enough.

    Good tunes though. Makes me realise that stuff I think is modern music is actually about 20 years old because it sounds like this.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    Kazakhstan had 8% of its entire energy taken up by crypto mining, a big contributor to the rapid rise in fuel prices which in turn was the catalyst for the uprising.

    Funnily enough they set fire to the the mines quite early on.
    _
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 22,090
    I think there may have been other more important causes to the rising fuel prices such as the current gas price and the government changing the whole market?

    Bitcoin is still trading 24 hours a day across borders without any interruption. Bonus marks if you can name the local currency.

  • masjer
    masjer Posts: 2,809
    edited January 2022
    Here's something shocking about wasting fuel- billionaires' superyachts.
    According to one calculation by Indiana University anthropologists, one with a permanent crew, a helicopter pad, submarines and pools emits over 7,000 tons of CO2 a year.
    Multiplied by 300 -- roughly the number of superyachts worldwide that fit that bill -- that equals over 2 million tons of CO2, more than the individual yearly emissions of about a quarter of the world's countries.
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,631
    masjer said:

    Here's something shocking about wasting fuel- billionaires' superyachts.
    According to one calculation by Indiana University anthropologists, one with a permanent crew, a helicopter pad, submarines and pools emits over 7,000 tons of CO2 a year.
    Multiplied by 300 -- roughly the number of superyachts worldwide that fit that bill -- that equals over 2 million tons of CO2, more than the individual yearly emissions of about a quarter of the world's countries.

    Probably still less than one Tesla factory though.
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
    I am not sure. You have no chance.
    Veronese68 wrote:
    PB is the most sensible person on here.

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