Were the Jetsons Norwegian?
If you don't remember who the Jetsons were, then they were a family in an eponymous 1960's US cartoon show set in the near future, where everyone whizzed around in flying cars, and had robots at home. I've just come back from some time travelling around Norway. As I sat there chomping my pickled herring at breakfast, I overlooked the street outside my hotel. What did I see? Electric trams, an entire fleet of electric buses and the majority of cars and vans - and a surprisingly high number of trucks - were electric vehicles. I left for the station opposite, and an electric train took me north to the station where I changed to a train to descend the world's steepest railway - to Flåm. Yes, it was also electric. From Flåm (two metres above sea level) I took a trip to a viewpoint (at around 900m) that was very smooth thanks to the bus powered by - you guessed it - an electric motor. The guide told me that the local kommune (council) had grown wealthy on tax revenue from the...