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A friend of mine followed behind this guy for a while tonight - he’s pretty sure it’s a Geely EX5 - he said all the badging was tapped off, which you can see on the back. Also rocking Manufacturers plates and not our green EV-specific plates.

Picked up a promotional card at the Canadian Autoshow this week from a company called Switch, offering not only a "free" 40A EVSE, but pay *you* ¢0.03 per kWh of charging. Immediately I though "Scam! There is no way this is real...." Apparently in Canada Carbon Credits - worth real money - are...

Attended the Canadian Autoshow in Toronto this week and came away with a few thoughts. With all the policy changes happening in the US, and kinda the opposite going on in Canada (EV rebates are back, Chinese EVs are in) I was curious as to what the "mood" would be at the show with respect to...

In exchange for concessions on canola and related products, we will now allow up to 49,000 Chinese EVs into Canada, tariff free, per year: https://insideevs.com/news/784657/china-ev-tariff-canada/

TL;DR Of course they don't, but that didn't stop a sketch Hyundai service department from telling my friend's sister that she did... My friend is a car guy - he loves EVs but does not own one yet. Has a deposit on an Rivian R2 and his sister has a MY22 Ioniq 5 though, so once in a while has EV...

Admittedly there is nothing particularly remarkable about this feat, other than I've been curious to attempt it since I got the NACS adapter. I've driven this route a lot since I got the car in 2022, and most of the time it's been a bit unnerving with the lack of reliability with the Ivy DCFC...

So....my initial 3 year trial period is up next month, and out of sheer curiosity decided to see what a one year renewal would cost. To my absolute amazement Ford Canada doesn't want my money. $0. Nada. Bupkis. Gratuit. There were three options - Annual at $650, Monthly at $64.99/month, and...

My daughter has recently begun a Master's programme at a University about 160 km round-trip from home. She only has classes two days a week, so will be commuting in the Mach-E. So twice a week I need to remember to reset the Target Charge from 80% to 95% (because I'm a Dad and I worry) which is...

Just hit 80,000 km on Lucy, our 2022 Job 2 Premium! Preamble: This was actually my second order - I ordered the original car on Oct. 23, 2021. That first car went into production on January 26, 2022, and was built March 19, 2022 (or thereabouts). And then in June 2022, somewhere on a rail line...

I posted this in November 2023 - tldr; after getting consistent charge faults at home, I thought my Chargepoint Home Flex had crapped out. I had been charging at 40A since I installed it, until one day it threw a fault. 100% of the time, charge fault. Eventually I figured out (by testing in on...

Tesla has started construction on 20 V4 Superchargers in Oakville at the Upper Oakville Shopping Centre. JML Electric is doing the install and by the looks of it they should be done by the Spring. Seems like a good location actually, with fast food, grocery store, coffee shop...and beer(!)...

If you've subscribed to Ivy emails you've obviously seen this already, but if not, good news is coming to the Ivy Charging Network - 11 locations will be ripping out the old, unreliable (dare I say garbage) DCFC chargers are replacing them with what look like Kempower units. Judging by the...

I've always been a fan of Wired, and had a subscription back when people used to disseminate information on dead trees. This, for me at least, adds to the recent body of evidence that lo and behold, EV packs don't need replacing after 2 years. Or three. Or next week...

Not surprising.... https://insideevs.com/news/742873/nacs-to-ccs-dc-to-dc-adapter-cheap-vs-expensive/

Just got an email an hour ago letting me know my shipment from Ford Canada ℅ Butcher Engineering (?) has shipped via Purolator. Let's see what shows up!

I stumbled across an offer on the GM site in Canada offering $100 Amazon gift card to test drive a Blazer, Equinox, or Silverado EV. How could I say no? So I went to the dealership yesterday and drove a Blazer LS. Admittedly I was a bit pressed for time when I went in, so didn't deep dive on...

In case you missed it... TL;DR - They are here (sort of), still have issues to sort out, but there are nice improvements to existing lithium-ion as well - like a claimed 0% to 100% charge in 90 seconds. https://insideevs.com/features/738508/high-silicon-anode-solid-state/ And apologies in...

Let me start off by mentioning the guy behind me was following too closely, but the way BlueCruise changed lanes was unexpected and completely un-natural behviour. While on the highway this week I came up on slower traffic (two cars about 10 car lengths apart) in the right lane and initiated a...

So.....last week after a road trip to Montreal I was lamenting the fairly large gap in the list of DCFC networks in the Ford Navigation App. No Ivy at ONroute rest stops, no Petro-Canada, and weird suggestions to cross in to the US from Canada to charge. Today I came back from the same trip and...

Why are the vast majority of the DCFC networks I want to use do not listed in the Ford Navigation app?? Maybe it's just a Canada thing, heck it could even just be an Ontario thing, but on my most recent trip from Toronto to Montreal and back very very few of the chargers along Highway 401 (the...