Recent content by GoodCheer

Something about having cows in the background, a Tim's in the mid, and the SCs in front pleases me.

Truro would make a ton of sense _instead_ of Enfield (100km or so from Aulac), but _in additional_ to Enfield, less so. (IMO) Frankly, Enfield is a bit of an odd choice. There are big highway junctures within 40km either north or south. I'd say a Truro - Bedford Common pair would be a bit tight...

I'd vote for Digby (connects both Digby - St. John and Yarmouth - Bar Harbor ferries to Hfx and points east), and somewhere around Monastary / Port Hastings in the east. Going too close to the end of a peninsula makes the site less useful, so back away from the end by half a battery range or so.

Woohoo! Great find. I actually drove past on the morning of the 6th and looked in to see if we could see any activity, but there was none. A little bird (who works at OneWind) had told me that construction was about to start.

On a different note, I just heard from a contact at an electrical & construction firm that they've submitted bids for Elmsdale (or was it Enfield? There's little functional difference) and a couple additional SC locations in NB. It seems that after demonstrating that it could make a profit...

That's a weird one. I assume that in the course of the conversation you would have picked up if he were an A-hole with a thing against EVs, and he's just in one stall, and all the way at the end; not what you'd do if you were trying to get in the way.

Man, SC permits are popping up in western Ontario like mushrooms after the rain. I wonder what the 'rain' was, if anything. (Edit: I know this is not western, but you know what I mean...)

How bazaar that it's not on their map, even after being built and switched on.

Interestingly, Brewer to Aulac is just about the same road km as brewer to Halifax, if you take the Digby - St. John ferry. If only you could charge up on the ferry!

With Baileyville, Medway, and Edmunston in permit (and no action in Elmsdale), it seems like Aulac was the anomaly, and they've gone back to their general policy of building out from the existing network, rather than creating SC 'islands'.

The distance between the two is ~170km, which is a perfectly respectable distance for a sparse network. I would think Woodstock would be higher priority, since it's right in the middle of (and would link) the three easternmost SCs, and is on a major junction. But Edmunston (and Medway, ME, and...

Yes, I know. Whether they couldn't find a taker in 3R or they are intentionally 'de-densifying' SCs in that part of QC, I fear the effect will likely be the same; they're unlikely to go forward with either 3R or Berthierville, since they are only 20k and 30k away, respectively.

Given the location, it seems quite plausible that this site will take the place of both Trois Revieres and Bertheirville. 150 km to Quebec is a bit long, but not exceptional. The planning map still shows those two, but not this one. Don't know quite what to make of that, other than that that...

Yeah, both New Glasgow and Bedford would be about 175km from Aulac, which while not ideal as a final network, seems to me to be a good way to get things started. Similarly, Bedford to Digby would be about 200km. More than ideal, but a good way to start. (A few exits east of Digby would be better...

That seems pretty extravagant for anything even remotely near-term. If I were designing the network, I think given where Aulac is, I'd skip Enfield, since it only serves one route. Instead, I'd start with Bedford/Sackville (serves 101, 102, 103, 213) Digby (serves Yarmouth and either ferry...