Electric car crosses most of Canada on Hwy 1

[noteven]

CTV Vancouver link

St. John’s NL to Victoria BC

Drivers did not need treatment for range anxiety.

87% done on non fossil generated amps

Not a Tesla

more news at 11

[agesilaus]

GM warns their electric car owners not to park withing 50 feet of anything flammable and not to park in a building that could catch on fire.

 

news article

[RV_]

Noteven,

That's great news! We'll be seeing a lot of non-Tesla brands getting press as they begin to get some sales. Some great, some not so great as the market and manufacturers sort out their winners and losers.

All current vehicle manufacturers won't be around in a decade or three. And we will see some new ones too.

BTW, in 2019 Tesla did it in 72 hours:

The Fastest EV Lightning Run Across Canada In A Model 3

Towards the end of 2019, Tesla completed its Trans-Canada Supercharger route from Vancouver to Halifax as a part of the expansion of its Supercharger network. In celebration of this, Ian Pavelko and Trevor Page drove a Tesla Model 3 from Tsawwassen, BC, to Halifax, and did it within 72 hours."

https://cleantechnica.com/2021/09/19/teslas-are-great-for-road-tripping-ignore-the-anti-tesla-myths/

Exciting times for electric vehicle enthusiasts.

Edited September 21, 2021 by RV_

[RV_]

3 hours ago, agesilaus said:

GM warns their electric car owners not to park withing 50 feet of anything flammable and not to park in a building that could catch on fire.

 

news article

LG makes all the GM battery packs in the Bolts, which failed in 10% of the first 2000 delivered to customers from the first batch.

They aren't the only ones using LG battery packs, as Ford has ordered major production increases by LG for its eMustang. The F150 Lightning battery packs are made by SK.

"As Clean Technica has learned, citing “extremely strong” sources, LG Energy Solution (LG’s subsidiary in charge of making batteries) is currently producing about 5,000 battery modules per day for the Ford Mustang Mach-E. Considering that each Mustang Mach-E has 10 modules in its battery, LG’s production capacity would be sufficient for 500 batteries per day.

With that data in hand, let’s now make annual production estimates. Assuming that LG Energy Solution produces batteries for 340-350 days a year, we would be talking about a production of batteries for between 170,000 and 175,000 Mustang Mach-E units per year. Now suppose, in an exercise of prudence, that the Clean Technica information refers to a production peak that may decrease in the following weeks; LG could have produced a spike now in anticipation of possible semiconductor outages later, for example. In that case, there could be an annual output of 150,000 batteries for the Mustang Mach-E.

At this point, perhaps some are thinking of the electric Ford F-150 Lightning. Nevertheless, It is unlikely (if not impossible) that LG batteries will be used in Ford’s electric pick-up, as it will use batteries from SK Innovation with a different capacity and technology. The electric F-150 will use cells that we could consider ‘NCM (9 ½ ½)’, as they contain 90% nickel, 5% cobalt and 5% manganese."

Source: https://www.newsylist.com/the-ford-mustang-mach-e-prepares-for-a-big-production-jump-in-2022-today-hybrids-and-electric/

This will be worth watching.

 

Edited September 21, 2021 by RV_

[noteven]

Technically “across Canada” from the furthest east road point to the furthest west point would be Cape Spear NL to the Yukon/Alaska border on Hwy 1.  

8,573km (5,300miles)

The south runs along the Trans Canada route are around 7,000km

The Tesla guys put a video on u toob - it was hood fun.

"Hood fun" ? stupid spell check 

Good fun.

 

Edited September 24, 2021 by noteven

[RV_]

They are fun. The article you posted was apparently an ad and sponsor for a Canadian EV charging company. Tesla as been saying they are going to open up Our Supercharger network to all EVs so just wanted you great white north folks to see that there is a pretty large charging network already that will be expanding all the time. Same as down here in CONUS.

 

Edited September 25, 2021 by RV_

[noteven]

 

 

I wouldn't say it was an "ad".  It mentions one of the drivers is CEO of a charging company. 

It also mentions:

IN MEMORY OF MARY ANN

The trip was dubbed Mary Ann’s Electric Drive 2.0 in honour of Soicher’s late wife who died of cancer in 2018.

Mary Ann and Soicher had made plans to visit Newfoundland together and a year after her passing, he went in her memory.

To continue her legacy, both trips fundraised money for Parkinson’s research and functional neurosurgery, a cause dear to her after suffering a life-threatening ruptured brain aneurysm two decades earlier.

Soicher said she would be proud of him for making these trips in his EV. 

[RV_]

Awww. That is a sweet in memorium gesture.