Norway’s first battery-powered aircraft crash-landed on a lake on Wednesday, in a setback for the country’s aviation strategy, although the pilot and passenger both escaped unhurt. The plane’s owner, airport operator Avinor, hoped to see commercial passenger flights on electric planes by 2025. The two-seater plane was piloted by AvinorContinue Reading
Norway is a maritime nation. In many cases, it is faster and less expensive to deliver cargo to its many coastal communities by sea than by land. The diesel engine is the workhorse of the maritime industry, which means all those ships in Norwegian waters are spewing enormous amounts ofContinue Reading
India should learn from other countries on how to find financial resources and manage ‘solid waste’ which is a big problem in almost all the municipalities of the country. For example eleven municipalities in the Stavanger region of Norway pooled their resources and floated a company called ‘Ivar’ that convertsContinue Reading
Europe reaches a million electric cars milestone nearly a year after China, which has a much larger car market, but ahead of the US, which is expected to reach the landmark later this year driven by the appetite for Tesla’s latest model. This is a 40% jump in sales; betweenContinue Reading
The ‘Yara Birkeland’ which has been commissioned by the Norwegian fertilizer manufacturer Yara International, will be the world’s first autonomous electric container ship, and will no doubt change freight transport at sea. According to Yara International, the electric ship should be able to replace a total of 40,000 truck journeysContinue Reading
Bislett stadium, which was built between 1917 and 1922. Several championships took place here, for example the European Athletics Championship in 1946 and the Olympic Winter Games in 1952. In 2004, the old stadium was replaced by a new one. It has a soccer stadium and an athletics site. 3,500Continue Reading
‘If you want people to do something, give them free money’- this has been the strategy so far in many countries on incentivizing their population for giving up internal combustion cars in favor of EV. Norway leads the world in the percentage of electric cars sold because it offers itsContinue Reading
Norway-based energy company, Statkraft has signed a deal with HCL Technologies for a five-and-a-half-year period in which HCL will provide end-to-end integrated infrastructure services, including data centre, service desk, workplace, network and security services, application operations and cross functional services. Statkraft is Norway’s largest generator of renewable energy and theContinue Reading
