It does explain it in the first sentences in Wikipedia

Pepsodent is an American brand of toothpaste with the minty flavor that is derived from sassafras. The brand was purchased by Unilever in 1942 and is still owned by the company outside of the United States and Canada. In 2003, Unilever sold the rights to the brand in the North American market to Church & Dwight.[1]

Pepsodent what founded in US and it might still have factories and offices there but Unilever bought it. I’m not sure where the Pepsodent tooth paste is manufactured but if you buy it you will likely support American jobs in some degree. But the profit that Pepsodent does will go back to Unilever.

Think of Jaguar, it is British but the current owners are Tata which is an Indian company.

Pepsodent is owned by Unilever which is British. So I guess it is OK to buy it, especially if the only alternative is an American company, for example Colgate.

Yeah it is great but currently they don’t have many of them installed, right? In the future it will be much more common and then the extra time for an electric truck compared to a diesel will be much less.

What will happen on the fossil fuel market in Norway in five years? All of a sudden, the newest fossil fuel car is 6 years old. Where will they get fuel? Sure, in Oslo there will be some petrol stations to find yet. But what about in the scarcely populated half of Norway which is north of Trondheim? In an ironic twist, electricity will be the abundant, safe and available option. Ironic because that has been the argument against BEV for so many years. “Where will I find chargers up north?”.

This will certainly happen at some point and will be hilarious.

I think I have read that the only fossil fuel cars in Norway now are the ones the rental companies buys and that is only because visitors don’t trust the charging network and wants fossil fuels. So I guess most Norwegians have learned that the chargers is not a problem.

Agree that it is crazy to give land and cheap power to the data centers that doesn’t create any jobs.

And 1B€ is kind of nothing for a country and even less for EIB. That would be equivalent of a normal person investing less than 1000€ into a business (didn’t do the math but the exact numbers don’t really matter). Of course I don’t think the EIB and governments should spend huge amounts of money into crazy ideas but some projects are too big and takes too long time for any company to invest in it. ITER (fusion power) is one example and nuclear power was probably equally risky in the 1950s. It is still better to invest some money into things that can be beneficial for us in the future than never dare to do anything, if you ask me.

Yeah, the E4 is preferred over E45. Maybe the E6 in Norway is even better since Norway has so many electric cars but I’m quite sure that E6 is longer and it could be issues to go over from Norway to Sweden during the winter. If the weather is bad the roads from Norway to Sweden can be closed.

Are you thinking of the charging that some cities in the East of Europe have? Like this. As far as I know there is only a test track for that in Gävle or in Visby, one of the cities has the “tram-line” and the other has induction built into the road for charging. After searching I found this. But it is really short and I don’t even know if they still exist or have been removed. So no, it doesn’t help anything if you are driving from Copenhagen to Kiruna. It will definitely help but there are many other challenges with the solutions in Gävle and Visby, much higher cost for building the road, creates limitation for extreme transports like the towers for wind power plants, wear and tear and probably many other.

The charging over night is more than enough to reach 100% but if you drive a truck made for city traffic on the highway during the winter it runs out of charge pretty quickly and you need to stop to charge it when you would just continue to drive if you were driving a diesel truck.

It is a lot of PHEV in the 31 %. Looking only at BEVs it is 20 %.

It works to drive from Copenhagen to Kiruna at least, but with the charging it takes 1 day longer than with a diesel truck.

Sweden didn’t put in that much money in it. At least not directly, I don’t know how much Sweden and Skellefteå spent to build up the city due to Northvolt.

I think it is better to have an American company that owns a couple of battery factories in Europe than importing all batteries from China. With these factories the know-how in Europe will increase and it will be easier for an European company to be successful.