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This is a case where it is necessary to make a distinction between what is good for you personally, and what is good for the environment and the future of EVs. Handing out free energy is in no way an economically sustainable practice for any car company, and it is not an environmentally...

Oh yes it is, let me assure you. I and many others have fought epic campaigns to get permission to install outlets in condo parking stalls. Stratas are largely run by dinosaurs.

You must be living in an alternate universe if you think that it is easy or even possible for a strata owner to gain permission to install an electrical outlet in their parking spot. I fought my strata for two years to get one installed, took legal action, created petitions, and even offered to...

I'd say it'll be close in cold weather. I haven't done Hope to Kamloops, just Hope to Kelowna which I think is more challenging terrain, and it's always a bit close in cold weather with the 85. I don't think I'd do Kelowna in a 70D. You could try the Coldwater Rd. bypass before Merritt (Google...

I do that trip pretty regularly, last time at Christmas with temperatures between -5 and -10 and slightly over the speed limit most of the way. In that case I left Hope with about 415 km of range and arrived in Kelowna with about 50 km remaining. I'd agree you lost a bit more charge than I would...

Nothing has changed for me -- the issue is still an issue.

But that's just a dumb way to regulate overuse of the Superchargers. They could easily just limit the number of times per week/month/year someone is allowed to charge at stations near their own home.

This is just getting ridiculous. I've been dealing with this issue since last year too and they just keep saying it'll be fixed in the next update, and we've had several since then. Who's with me in putting together a petition requesting a refund on our Tech packages if we don't get a fix soon?

Yes, I do have "Energy Saving" turned on, as well as "Always Connected". I think it's clear that "Always Connected" doesn't work as it should, and my Tesla rep confirmed that there is an issue that they're looking into. He said the workaround was to toggle the "Energy Saving" control to OFF to...

Hi, Does anyone else find that their MS takes forever to establish a 3G connection after powering-up the car? About half the time I power up, it starts with zero signal bars and stays that way for 5-10 minutes of driving. It doesn't seem to be a signal strength issue -- it happens just as often...

The updated SC map is back up on the website. It looks like the Kelowna, Merrit, and Vancouver stations are slated for 2015, not 2016. That's great news! Any guesses as to where they'll put the Vancouver station?

Sorry to see you get towed. I'm the guy you saw at the Hope SC tonight. My wife was biting her nails over our remaining range just as we passed you getting loaded up on the flatbed. What a place to run out of juice -- you were about 0.5km to the top of the last hill before Hope! We left Kelowna...

So, tomorrow's Wednesday... is the tranny on the pad in Hope yet?

Perhaps there really is some asinine issue that Tesla is dealing with on the landowner's side that Hope and BC Hydro truly have no bearing on. Tesla is really the only entity here that should know exactly what's going on here so it would be nice if they would be transparent about it. Maybe I'm...

Wow, I got an informative reply from BCHydro on one of my tweets: So, I guess this means we'll see it open by 2016 if we're lucky?

Here is the response I got from Scott Misumi at the District of Hope. I think it's clear that the delay is not a Hope issue and it sounds like it is purely in BC Hydro's domain: I've started tweeting BC Hydro on a regular basis about this. Perhaps if we had a few more people doing the same...

I heard from a Tesla guy that it's actually a municipal/district zoning screw-up holding up the show. Apparently the parking lot isn't actually zoned to be a parking lot, and I guess BCH won't install anything until that's resolved.

Likewise. I've started tweeting my displeasure to @BCHydro. Maybe if someone other than me starts tweeting it will get more attention.

Does anyone know why BC Hydro has been such a holdup? Is it a case of poor planning or is this just the way it goes for a commercial electrical connection?