I was in Canada last week and it makes me ashamed to be a US citizen from the standpoint of electric charging infrastructure. My experience is all in Quebec province , so I don’t know how the rest of Canada is, but they have a centralized system ‘Electric Circuit’ that is incredible. Their app is fantastic and stations are everywhere, even small towns. I can always find an open station. Best of all , I don’t think I have ever run across a broken station. It’s easy to use too. You don’t need six different apps or cards since it’s one system. I think that pricing may vary somewhat based on local but is very reasonable. When there is a problem (a station was blocked by a non charging EV) they responded to my complaint .
We live in northern Virginia and my wife travels to Richmond periodically, about 125 miles. So she would need to charge the Bolt at some point. This is a very well traveled route - mostly on 95, but it’s amazing how few charging stations there are, and how many are non functional. Pricing is all over the place, IF you are registered to the particular system you want to connect to. I’d say one of the best selling points of a Tesla is their reliable and widespread network. It’s nice to see a similar system for the rest of us functioning somewhere, just wish it was here. -Steve _______________________________________________ Address messages to [email protected] No other addresses in TO and CC fields UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/ LIST INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org
