Recent content by Phillip L

It is just so incredibly obvious to me that a SC in New Glasgow or Antigonish would be a huge advantage for travel from Halifax or New Brunswick to Cape Breton.

Got an offer via email. I have a 2015 Model S. Considering it. Just wondering what trade in value would get For my present car.

When I bought our Model S in 2015 an important part was that the design was a more mainstream design that did not shout out that it was radically different. And not ugly like a neighbour’s BMI i3. Just a very handsome variation on “normal”. My first reaction to seeing the reveal of the cyber...

Drove to Vancouver with our Volt in October. One thing to keep in mind is, that in our experience, it was difficult to get a hotel in Wawa. The are plenty of hotels/ motels but there is a new Hydro line being built in the area and most of the rooms are booked by the workers. Don’t know when the...

I am a transplanted Bluenoser who drives “down” to NS, and back “up” to Ontario once or twice a year in our Tesla. We go “over” to PEI but “down” to Cape Breton. I have never driven “over” to Newfoundland but have flown there. I guess we always figure the farther east one goes, one is going...

The ChargePoint DC fast chargers at the Viscount Cell phone lot at Pearson airport: NONE of them would work last night.

It is off Network Road behind the Viscount Parking garage. It is handy because you can use the bathroom facilities in the parking garage and even have the person you are picking up use the Skytrain from Pearson to get to the garage. You do need a ChargePoint card to use it. But the charge is...

Actually in my post I forgot to mention by far the most common use of my Chademo. At Toronto’s Pearson airport cellphone lot. My wife’s elderly mother lives on the east coast and she flies down to see her often. I need a charge to get back home from dropping her off or picking her up, and I...

I have had a Chademo since 2015. Definitely of use in certain areas. Can go virtually anywhere in Quebec and the Maritimes with one. But since the Supercharger buildout into the Maritimes have used it less often but did come in handy once this summer. I actually bought a J772 extension cord back...

If you have a Chademo adapter anywhere in NB or NS is easily doable. But I prefer always to fully charge at a hotel overnight. Besides, I make it a point to mention it to the desk that I stopped there specifically because of the charger. Incentivizes them to keep the chargers working or add...

For information. Just got back from a trip to Nova Scotia and back. Even with the detour, due to the flooding, to Saint John and up to Fredericton along the west side of the Saint John River I did not have to use my Chademo adapter once. That is in my 2015 Model S 85D, so would be even easier in...

Again optics is everything in politics. Look at what just happened in Alberta. Kenny blows and puffs and the voters eat it up. Everything he ranted about, he will be as constrained as Notley was, and get no further, but being Mr. Outraged plays to the masses. So any ev program has to take into...

Maybe if they had a snowball’s hope in winning. But not yet.

The reality is that the Liberals at least believe in global warming and are doing something. The Conservatives say they believe but want to do nothing, or even actively work against any work on the environment, and the NDP are just not in the game. Guess I have to vote Liberal.

Certainly if I came across such a dual use Supercharger I would encourage all Tesla owners to use the dual purpose spots first, if open, rather than the Tesla only ones.