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Should be a great vacation. By the way, they are not done yet on the peninsula. At least two more CHAdeMO will be in service very soon in Gaspesie. Also, funds have been approved for CHAdeMO in Temiscouata, maybe 50 km from the N.B. border in the lower St Lawrence river region of QC, but no...

At -20C you can go about 80 km driving at 90 kph provided the car is preheated. (Easy to do if hooked up to a level two charging station). You can go farther if you drive slower. The worst range I ever had was 60-65km once when -10C, but 40 kph headwinds with gusts to 60 kph. By comparison...

I live in Quebec City and estimate loss of 4%-5% after three years and 36,500 km. 2013 SL. Capacity loss isn't really an issue in Eastern Canada if you take reasonable care of the vehicle. I see you mention Northern NB, but your forum name makes me think of Northern NS. If you are in NB and...

By law, Tesla Motors would be required to reveal that to potential buyers. Then all the haters would use it in their daily anti-Tesla rants. One of the security cars at the plant in Fremont is a white Model S. They also have a few RAV4 EVs in the same role. It has been speculated that the white...

The biggest weakness of the Tesla estimator is not accounting for very cold weather. I haven't been able to test 6.2 in severe conditions, but 6.1 would underestimate consumption by over a third whenever it was below 0F, which was every day in January and February. If this continues with 6.2...

During a cross-country trip, I was impressed by the number of CHAdeMO stations in Saint-Louis and Kansas City. It's a shame, however, that there aren't any in between. Not that you would use them to regularly drive to Jefferson City, but they would be OK for a once or twice a year trip and...

Sorry for you, but I'm glad they don't, because those scrap cars would end up in Quebec where we have low standards for accepting vehicles. Otherwise, thank you OP for a funny story. Someone here did get a gaz-guzzler tax on their registration for having an 8-cylinder Tesla. It took a while to...

EVTriplanner is a lot better than the beta Tesla planner. However, both have a problem with bridging gaps in the Supercharger network. If you know you'd like to stop at an L2 or CHAdeMO station along the way, it's best to enter the legs before and after the stop into the planner separately...

Thanks to the members of the Capital Districk EV group who are currently participating in the branchezvous test rides and EV parade in Montreal. It's only the first of three days, but their presence is already well appreciated. I will be there tomorrow.

The branchezvous festivities are under way at the Gilles-Villeneuve race track in Montreal. 17 models are EV are available for test drives and of course there will be the World Record attempt of LEAFs and EVs in parade Saturday afternoon. With the CHAdeMO stations in White River Junction...

Glad to see the Greewich CHAdeMO on the Merritt Parkway are active. Otherwise, it is hard to find local DCQC, and plugshare is useless, because it's cluttered with coming not too soons. How many of these sites are actually active? Many of the so-called coming soons have been that way for...

I can confirm the DCQC in Rutland, Middlebury, and Burlington work well, except the one at the Burlington Nissan dealer which has a broke handle. With some care, I think its possible for someone from Mass to attend the huge EV parade and test drive event in Montreal. Anyone who drives a plug-in...

Besides the parade, please note that test drives are being offered on three days one of which is reserved for media/fleet owners. Drives are free, first-come, first-served on the Gilles-Villeneuve race track. This is the site that hosts the Montreal Formula One event. However, speed is limited...

The Efacec DCQC in the KC City area is impressive. The dual-standard units seem very solid and easy to use. I've charged at about a dozen different DCQC units and I rank them at the top with AddEnergie's (I think the latter are only deployed in Quebec for now). The one sad thing is how there...

What will Honda do for ZEV credits in the meantime? I thought the Fit EV was being phased out, but could be wrong.

I would yawn too. I mean, why would anyone be interested in a 135 kW Supercharger unit that can split service between two cars when you'd rather make a big press release about installing single-car 25 kW stations?

It's too easy to attack the message. There are too many deliberate omissions and distortions.

I wasn't clear, but I meant it in the sense of, "what do they think of Musk's management of SpaceX and PayPal?" This is since Lorenfb seems to think Elon is an incompetent CEO.

Excellent initiative, Tony. Could some of the funding come from cutting investment in L2 stations? There is certainly a place for public L2 stations, but I see many 208V-240V stations being installed where they're not particularly useful

What are Kramer's and lorenfb's opinions of SpaceX and Paypal?