My apologies if this doesn't belong in this thread (I flipped a coin between here and the eastern Canada Supercharger thread).
My wife and I are considering getting a MS85D (okay, me more than my wife but I do need the WAF as I plan on staying married). We've had a couple of very successful test drives and she likes the car (but I love it). She's not sold on the fact that it's anything more than a daily commuter (i.e. not for longer trips). That said, it's a fair chunk of change to spend on something that's not a go-anywhere-you-want-when-you-want-kind-of-car.
Now for the ask, I would like some honest / balanced answers from the non-marketing, real day to day user kind of folks.
First, I was extremely disappointed to read that the Montreal SC only has a very small number of charging bays. We go there once ever 2 months or so and this will make "selling" the car to my wife more difficult. Has Tesla said when this situation might improve? I know there are other charging options available but anything much longer than the touted 40 minute stops won't help my case.
Second (and this is THE big one), every 2 or 3 weeks we drive from Ottawa to Fort Erie using the 407 for it's entire length to avoid as much Toronto traffic as possible. This is our normal route about 90% of the time. After doing some research (but before finding this forum), I was fairly confident when I told my wife that we could easily SC in Kingston and Toronto before getting to our destination. This is one more stop (Trenton) than our current trips but still sell-able. The concern here is that after reading some threads here I see people seem to have reservation about driving non-stop from Kingston SC to Toronto SC in adverse weather.
Is this really a concern in anything other than nice weather? We have, on occasion, driven in -20C (or colder!) blowing snow conditions.
Lastly, while speaking with some friends from Toronto yesterday, they casually observed (since we've told them about our plans for a tesla) that they had to drive by the Lawrence Ave. SC twice on Saturday (early afternoon and late evening) and both times appeared to have long lines of cars (with people milling about) waiting to be charged.
Anyone here with first hand experience at this charger in the late evenings Fridays and mid to late afternoon Sundays?
My plan was to push the "buy" button some time this week but I'm now having some serious reservations. Maybe waiting a year or two for better range on the car and /or more infrastructure would be the more prudent route for us?
Thanks in advance for any responses! This appears to be a fantastic forum!
