Comments by "Luredreier" (@Luredreier) on "Type Ashton"
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25:59
Actually, a ICE car also loses efficiency in low temperatures (although they'll eventually heat up enough for this to not really matter) or more so at high altitudes.
A EV actually isn't affected by altitude at all, but is affected by temperature.
However the temperature disadvantage actually kind of is made up by the effect of heating it up again.
The cold doesn't actually remove charge from the battery, instead it reduces the amount of power the battery can deliver at any one time, a value that goes down as it's discharged.
But when the climate changes and it gets hotter you actually regain the range you lost due to the cooling of the battery.
However EVs also tend to use electricity for heating the cabin and heating the battery in order to get more power from it in a short amount of time, and that heating costs energy.
That said, you don't really drive that long without stopping anyway.
You'll stop to eat, go to the toilet etc.
And each time you have the option to just charge a bit, it's not like you have to fully charge each time.
If you stop 3 times on your way somewhere, each time charging 10-15% you'll have 130-160% of the original range for that trip, all while you're barely actually noticing that your car is charging, taking breaks that you'd probably take anyway.
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Norway has a 100% state run health care insurance and all hospitals are 100% state owned.
There are however private medical clinics as well as most general practictioners being private.
There's a roof on how much people can pay in medical expenses pr year (much lower then the ones you mentioned for Germany and the US, but still high enough to make people think twice about needlessly seeking medical attention).
The costs of medications are highly regulated.
And they're a part of the same cap as for both physical and mental health care.
However dental care is not covered by our system for adults, and has to be covered 100% out of pocket except for in certain cases when people are on certain social aid programs, changing this has been one of the many election topics in the recent election in Norway, although it wasn't the main topic.
Our system is of course covered by our tax system, a progressive one.
So with a lower income you'd pay a smaller percentage of your income in tax.
With a higher income you'd pay a greater percentage.
In terms of post-tax costs, I've had doctors appointments with a cost of perhaps 30 dollars, and some at perhaps 80 dollars, give or take.
And that would in essence be all you'd pay if you don't need any further medical treatment.
Births are free in hospitals and birth clinics, but isn't covered for home births, where you have to seek out private solutions and pay for it in full (this is to discourage this kind of births, due to the obvious risks involved, if something goes wrong there that would incur higher costs for the state, and in the case of death, a loss of taxable income...)
As for the cost cap for health care in Norway, I think it's something like 250 dollars give or take?
That cost cap may also apply to health care in other countries like the US if you can prove that you can't get the same health care within Norway up front, it's a bit complicated...
Seeking healthcare abroad for things that is available in Norway however would generally not be covered, although I blieve there are some exceptions.
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2:36
There's a lot more then 195 countries.
They're just not all equally recognized.
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It's not the country merger that's beneficial here, but the merger of individual factors like labour pools etc.
Having specialized laws suitable to local conditions is still extremely beneficial in many cases because we do not all have the same conditions to deal with.
Climate, geography, soil quality, linguistics, culture, religion, raw materials, traditions, historic specializations etc, etc all matters in terms of what works well where.
You can remove barriers to movement etc without removing borders.
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@Likr666 The idea that you have to charge a PHEV often just isn't true.
But the maintainance cost thing, definitively is.
My sister has a hybrid car, and it's has broken down for the second time this year in a short amount of time, and she can't afford to repair it right now, since she's still paying down the loan she took to repair it last time...
On the other hand, like a EV you'll have little wear and tear when you're driving in electric one pedal mode and drive efficiently.
Anyway, regarding refueling.
She only fuels her care once a week at most...
She often go longer without needing to fill it.
And a hybrid car can charge when you're breaking or even just by running the gasoline engine if needed, although that's definitively not ideal.
Don't think of the battery as something you have to charge, but something that you have the option to charge whenever you're stopping anyway for a snack or something with a PHEV.
But yes, they do tend to charge slower.
But yeah, it depends on the car.
You can get cars that's mainly driven by a electric engine but that has the option of generating electricity using a ICE engine that is then feed to the electric engines, that is range extenders...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Range_extender
Or you can get hybrids where both the ICE engine and the Electric engine drives the drivechain directly.
And those two approaches to hybrid cars are very different and leads to cars that have different abilities and behaviors.
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