Nope, I don't have one of those fancy solid state batteries. But I have been driving an EV for 2+ years now and 95% of the time, I charge at home. I travel ~100km each way to work and a single charge is more than enough to get me to work and back. When I'm driving to other places, I might have to stop at a Supercharger and that might take me ~20 mins but ... if I've been driving long enough to charge, I welcome the 20 min break to stretch my legs etc. It's a small price to pay to not have to pay for gas.

I know an EV doesn't make sense for the millions of people who apparently drive / tow 800km every day but that's not my situation.

probably because they're on vacation and the rental place only had EV's.

I know it's not for everyone but having owned 40+ cars in my lifetime, I can't ever see myself going back to an ICE voluntarily. My EV does everything my previous ICE cars did... and more.

Up here in the vast frozen North, we have similar temps to Chicago. Now, it could very different in Chicago but I have no issues finding functional chargers in Ontario, Canada. Maybe a few times I've gone to a 12 stall charger station and perhaps 1 or 2 have been out but I've personally never had a problem finding a working Supercharger. Other brands e.g. FLO, Chargepoint are a different story. They seem to be out of service pretty often. I've driven from SW Ontario to Ottawa in January temps of -21C and had zero issues with the vehicle or with the supercharger stations.

Canadian here. Most (if not all) of our electricity (Hydro) comes from Nuclear. I pay around $0.04 / kWh for overnight charging - which is mostly when I charge. The on-peak cost is $0.39 / kWh is comparable to the Supercharger stations around me

Can confirm. I was spending ~$500 a month in gas. Switched to an EV and I pay ~$70 a month in additional electricity. Unfortunately my workspaces doesn't have chargers so 95% of all my charging is done at home and most of that is overnight when it's cheapest.

Starlink provides Internet access to very remote areas. I often go hunting where cell signal was lost about 2 hours ago into my trek but I still have internet from starlink

What if I really worked really hard for many decades to afford my detached 1,200 sq ft, 3 bedroom house? Are you saying I should tear it down and move into a condo?

People aren't stopping in the middle of nowhere to look at black flies. that's just the middle part between where they started and where they are going. Putting a charging station between two major areas is a great idea, regardless of how desolate the middle part is.

I kinda like that Elon makes bold claims that don't always turn out to be reality. It's a nice break from the "always under promise, never deliver" crap that we've gotten used to. I like, "excessively over promise, sometimes deliver".

I want someone to say, we're going to create an EV that can go 5,000 km on a single chart because then at least a bunch of people are really, really thinking of ways to make it work.

I want someone to say, "You know what? We're going to capture returning rockets and spaceships by making them land vertically and maybe even capture them with massive chopsticks" because when they do it, it's an amazing thing to see. The sheer engineering, math, and ingenuity behind some of those things (Chevy gave us the Bolt. Tesla gave us a 1,022 hp sedan that can seat 5 people) is what people should be happy with.

If the flip side of that is we don't get things that were promised, I'm OK with that. Disclaimer: I'm a Tesla owner and I've been waiting for the roadster for years. It should have been here long away but I'm not mad. If it never arrives, my life does not get any worse.

Come on, they never even googled that name and couldn't have come up with something better?

I get the high cost of expanding into the great wilderness for housing etc. but the fact everyone is jammed in so tight into cities is crazy considering just how much land mass there is. You only have to drive 20 minutes out of the Toronto core to realize there actually is a bunch of space but they're still cramming people into 600 ft apartments in Toronto and making them pay $700/month in condo fees and $2,500 in rent for the privilege.

Even the drive from London to Windsor is more reminiscent of a post-apocalyptic barren wasteland than a 1st world country. There are definitely farms which should be protected but there's also SO much crown land that no person has set foot upon that could be better used to build houses for people

"Cheapish" hydro, depending where you live and the time of day you're using electricity.

It can be as high as $0.40 / kWh during the day and around $0.04 during the night. Which sounds amazing until you realize the Hydro company tacks on a BUNCH of surcharges, fees etc.

For example, last month, I paid $135 in "Delivery" fees, $19 in "Regulatory" fees. That represents a fairly hefty percentage of my total bill. They might reduce the per kWh rate, but you can bet they'll make up for it in add-on fees. If they were serious about moving to EV / Hybrids, they wouldn't punish you with high Hydro costs.

The gov't is still operating under the, "The budget will balance itself" mentality.

I don't think it's because they are financially inept. I think it's because they're corrupt and they love enriching buddies or those who have some dirt on them.

Still continues to give US-based auto manufacturers a bunch of tax payer money...

I guess the Canadian Gov't still hasn't learned that you can give GM, Ford etc. all the incentives and money you want, but they will still close Canadian factories and move production back to the US at their whim. Also, I wouldn't hold your breath on any increase in EV chargers. Other than Tesla whose supercharging network seems to be growing at lightning pace, all past attempts to throw Gov't money at increasing chargers has failed miserably.

I don't think it's hypocrisy - just intelligent planning. I suppose they could have done what other oil-rich nations might do e.g. spend the money buying a Rolls-Royce in every color or perhaps by spending billions in the war machinery but their focus is elsewhere and that's not a bad thing.

When a highly education, relatively low population, oil-rich country with a very cold climate and dispersed population makes this kind of news, we should be celebrating their results instead of trying to find every flaw. If the alternative was that 97% of their new vehicles were diesels, that wouldn't be the great news some people think it is.