Eastern Canada Superchargers

[KenN]

Hear hear!!

 

[WarrenInCA]

Someday, I'd love to tour sections of Canada by Tesla.

Well said.

We may complain a lot about the lack of speed of installations in Canada, but I truly believe that Tesla's network will expand to serve all of Canada eventually. Including Vancouver Island. I'm not going to argue against Toronto-Montreal being the first priority.

I think we should all stop to think about what Tesla is doing: they are building a network completely funded by car sales. EV sales are still very low compared to the "mainstream" market, and without Tesla there would be no long-range EVs. Elon may promise too much at times, but his company's achievement is remarkable.

Meanwhile almost all the other car companies out there are content to do "business as usual", which includes spending on the order of $500 per car in advertising. I would far rather that the car company I'm buying from put money toward infrastructure which supports use of the car than spend it on advertising.

 

[RDoc]

I'd love to see a Supercharger placed to allow access to Nova Scotia. It does appear that by end of 2016, it will be possible to get there, and there do seem to be a lot of EV chargers around, so maybe it will work.

 

[wayner]

I'd love to see a Supercharger placed to allow access to Nova Scotia. It does appear that by end of 2016, it will be possible to get there, and there do seem to be a lot of EV chargers around, so maybe it will work.

Isn't there a ferry from Portland, ME to Yarmouth, NS? That gets you to NS. Getting charged once there may be a bit of an issue

 

[rypalmer]

Isn't there a ferry from Portland, ME to Yarmouth, NS? That gets you to NS. Getting charged once there may be a bit of an issue

There's a CHAdeMO charger in downtown Halifax, and one in Truro. New Brunswick is the really big hole at the moment.

 

[ZsoZso]

Port Hope, is indeed working, I used it today on my way home from Montreal. It has come up in the navigation Supercharger list, so it is "official".
It makes the trip more convenient, no need to full-charge at Kingston, two quick washroom+coffee breaks instead of one long break.

 

[Phillip L]

I'd love to see a Supercharger placed to allow access to Nova Scotia. It does appear that by end of 2016, it will be possible to get there, and there do seem to be a lot of EV chargers around, so maybe it will work.

I actually drove down from Ontario last summer through Quebec. Stayed overnight at a hotel in Fredericton to have a full charge in the morning to get to Nova Scotia. I do have a ChaDeMo adaptor that I used in Truro which was very nice. With the new Supercharger in Augusta Maine it would really help your drive up from Boston. And if you have the ChaDeMo adaptor the Nissen dealer in Bangor has a ChaDeMo and they were very friendly and will let you charge there. (I made a side trip to Camden Maine last summer to see a concert at their Opera House, that's why I know). There are handy 70 amp chargers along the highway at Saint Stephens, Moncton and Sackville NB that I used.

 

[tinanbran]

Stopped in to Port Hope to see the new station on our way by, greeting by a current owner who let my son jump in his car for the picture as our delivery date is coming March. Little Ts first time seeing a real life Tesla! Thumbs up!

 

[Forty Creek]

I wonder if Port Hope will have an official opening with a ribbon cutting? They may be waiting until after the holidays.

 

[hingisfan]

I wonder if Port Hope will have an official opening with a ribbon cutting? They may be waiting until after the holidays.

Are they still doing that? I don't think Kingston ever had one.

 

[Forty Creek]

Are they still doing that? I don't think Kingston ever had one.

Perhaps not. The last one I attended was Barrie. It just seems like a good opportunity for a little press coverage.

 

[Jgdixon]

Perhaps not. The last one I attended was Barrie. It just seems like a good opportunity for a little press coverage.

Barrie was not an official grand opening. It was conducted by our owner's club and the landlord.

 

[Forty Creek]

Barrie was not an official grand opening. It was conducted by our owner's club and the landlord.

Ah, didn't realize that. Guess Tesla just doesn't make a fuss when a new charger opens.

 

[SlyWombat]

Sadly the stupid navigation still routes me to the Laurence supercharger and sez to charge for 0 minutes, then head to port hope supercharger!

 

[Doug_G]

Sadly the stupid navigation still routes me to the Laurence supercharger and sez to charge for 0 minutes, then head to port hope supercharger!

LOL! The trip planner certainly provides entertainment, if nothing else. Will be fun to see what it does.

 

[Peter_M]

When I was in Cobourg this fall (before the Port Hope supercharger), I asked it to take me home to Ottawa, and it said to go around Lake Ontario via Toronto, Buffalo, Syracuse and Kingston superchargers, even though I had plenty of charge to go directly to Kingston!

 

[lance]

There must be some way to bypass this silly SuperCharging suggestion. I'm in Gaspé for the holidays and whenever I enter a location in the Nav from here it suggests I drive to Maine to Supercharge even though it's out of range. Silly Silly!

Sadly the stupid navigation still routes me to the Laurence supercharger and sez to charge for 0 minutes, then head to port hope supercharger!

 

[iKhalid]

There must be some way to bypass this silly SuperCharging suggestion. I'm in Gaspé for the holidays and whenever I enter a location in the Nav from here it suggests I drive to Maine to Supercharge even though it's out of range. Silly Silly!

Once you start navigating, click on "Trip" then "Remove Chargers" (or something like that)

 

[Doug_G]

In the settings there is an option to turn off the "trip planner (beta)".

 

[RiverBrick]

There must be some way to bypass this silly SuperCharging suggestion. I'm in Gaspé for the holidays and whenever I enter a location in the Nav from here it suggests I drive to Maine to Supercharge even though it's out of range. Silly Silly!

I often wonder why there isn't a simple sanity check in the trip planner. Just a few lines of code would suffice to eliminate some of the whacky suggestions. I tell myself at times it is because they don't want to waste time applying band-aids to the current system when an entirely new and improved NAV is coming. Maybe in 8.0 there will be new maps AND a new trip-planner. Or maybe in 9.0 or 10.0.

At least the CHAdeMO in La Pocatiere and Mont-Joli must have helped on route to Gaspé. Of course, the "2015" Superchargers in Rivière-du-Loup and Québec City would have been even better.