Slowly but surely the mainstream media are beginning to express some reservations about “the transition to electric cars” which is presented as a kind of natural law – while the exact opposite is happening in the rest of Europe and the USA: Sales of electric cars are falling. After history’s biggest buying spree for new cars (to save the environment from overconsumption), Norwegians too are beginning to worry a little about surprises and costs associated with car ownership, exactly as they have been warned about.