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done!
I had them swap the rims onto the winter tires so that we could potentially put sensors on the other rims or maybe sell those rims and just keep one set. We'll see in the spring.

The tread is definitely better
lol
edit: oh yeah, and I have a appointment for wheel alignment tomorrow.. #evcrosscanada #tires #cars #maintenance

A hive of activity around here! A few seconds ago a full logging truck left and now there is an empty logging truck in its place. Every bay is full. Everyone running full bore!

Pearson Tire/Kal Tire in Port Alberni.
Been getting my tires here for 20 years! Great people. And free tire changes!

Edit: just to emphasize the point… a full Kal Tire delivery truck just pulled up on the main street beside and is now sitting there in the left turn lane waiting for the logging truck to be done so it can pull in. Crew now working double fast lol.

Winter tire season definitely on!
#evcrosscanada #tires #cars #maintenance

I believe these are the second set of “summer/all season” tires for this car. I think we got them the spring before we embarked on our 14,000km summer 2022 #evcrosscanada road trip. That was about 160,000km ago by the odometer, but we alternate summer/winter, so probably about half that. Let’s say 75,000km for these tires.

They are Nokian all seasons. Not sure what I will replace them with next spring. We’ll see!
#tires #cars #maintenance

fun fact:
Earlier that month, at the beginning of the semester, both myself and my colleague came down with a flu-like illness. We both recovered fine, but both of us thought we probably got it from a student in the class who was also sick. We didn't think much of it at the time.

But now.. we both believe we and that student, probably had COVID.

I didn't get COVID again until July 2022 when we went on our #EVCrossCanada trip.

#COVID19 #Pandemic #Work #WorkLife

It only took two years since our #EVCrossCanada roadtrip, but tonight we finally put on all the bumperstickers that we collected along the way, plus a couple extra and some that were lost when the back was replaced! My favourite is definitely the Riding Mountain National Park one!
#FunTimes #roadtrip #EV #Kona #Vacation #memories

This article (https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/electric-car-charging-network-canada-marketplace-1.7094656 )
mirrors my experience in 2022 #EVCrossCanada from VI to PEI (chronicled here: https://chrisalemany.ca/2022/08/15/saving-co2-on-a-cross-country-ev-journey/ )

— in particular, some charging networks, like Petro Canada, are horrible. Some are much better. Flo is by far the most reliable across Canada that we found. BC Hydro and Hydro Quebec never let us down either. Electrify Canada and Ivy were pretty good but not perfect.

Imagine going to a gas pump and having a different price from day to day or station to station… not cents... like by 50-100% difference. Imagine if the gas pump just didn't work 10% of the time. Imagine if you had to phone customer support to fill your car?

These are all **WHOLLY AVOIDABLE** barriers that have been put up because Government has allowed the marketplace to figure out car charging on its own.

It will change out of necessity.

#EV #Canada #ClimateAction #EndFossilFuels #LateStageCapitalism #MarketForces #Regulation

This article (https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/electric-car-charging-network-canada-marketplace-1.7094656 )
mirrors my experience in 2022 #EVCrossCanada from VI to PEI (chronicled here: https://chrisalemany.ca/2022/08/15/saving-co2-on-a-cross-country-ev-journey/ )

— in particular, some charging networks, like Petro Canada, are horrible. Some are much better. Flo is by far the most reliable across Canada that we found. BC Hydro and Hydro Quebec never let us down either. Electrify Canada and Ivy were pretty good but not perfect.

Imagine going to a gas pump and having a different price from day to day or station to station… not cents... like by 50-100% difference. Imagine if the gas pump just didn't work 10% of the time. Imagine if you had to phone customer support to fill your car?

These are all **WHOLLY AVOIDABLE** barriers that have been put up because Government has allowed the marketplace to figure out car charging on its own.

It will change out of necessity.

#EV #Canada #ClimateAction #EndFossilFuels #LateStageCapitalism #MarketForces #Regulation

This article (https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/electric-car-charging-network-canada-marketplace-1.7094656 )
mirrors my experience in 2022 #EVCrossCanada from VI to PEI (chronicled here: https://chrisalemany.ca/2022/08/15/saving-co2-on-a-cross-country-ev-journey/ )

— in particular, some charging networks, like Petro Canada, are horrible. Some are much better. Flo is by far the most reliable across Canada that we found. BC Hydro and Hydro Quebec never let us down either. Electrify Canada and Ivy were pretty good but not perfect.

Imagine going to a gas pump and having a different price from day to day or station to station… not cents... like by 50-100% difference. Imagine if the gas pump just didn't work 10% of the time. Imagine if you had to phone customer support to fill your car?

These are all **WHOLLY AVOIDABLE** barriers that have been put up because Government has allowed the marketplace to figure out car charging on its own.

It will change out of necessity.

#EV #Canada #ClimateAction #EndFossilFuels #LateStageCapitalism #MarketForces #Regulation

@eripa the EV numbers are from my own experience when I documented our family cross country EV roadtrip in 2022. calculated cost and CO2 of every charge from VI to PEI and back. #EVCrossCanada
Plane numbers are from the ITAO calculator. Ferry is from asking the Chief Steward on the Q of Oak Bay last year when I gave up trying to find numbers punlicly (they don't exist)

Just found a cool new feature in my car app. It is providing electricity consumption statistics broken down by car subsystem for every trip in the past day. Wish I had had this when we drove across Canada! They should add the temperature outside and in the cabin (it was 6°C out and 19.5°C in)
The attached pic is a short 6km trip around town.
Six minutes.
34Wh for Climate Control.
275Wh for driving
100Wh for accessories
0Wh for Battery Care
and 435Wh Regenerated from braking.
Total energy used 409Wh.
#Hyundai #KonaEV #EVCrossCanada #stats

Alright, now we'll see how well linking back to my old Twitter archive will work. This time last year we were finally giving the Kona a bath after 16,000km of #EVCrossCanada. The one time I attempted to put the car through the carwash on the road was in Thunder Bay and I somehow managed to run up a curb. Then realized the carwash was closed. So it didn't get washed for the entire trip. This must have felt good.
#TwitterMigration #Web #mastoAdmin #selfhosted
https://twitterarchive.chrisalemany.ca/chrisalecanada/status/1559747106973163521/

This day last year was our final day on our 16,000km #EVCrossCanada trip. We proved you could reduce your CO2 on long trips by driving across Canada. We found out the different CO2 intensities for electricity in every province. I calculated 637kg of CO2. Most of that, 516kg, from charging in Alberta and Saskatchewan. A jet going the same distance would emit 103,000kg. It was appropriate I started this day charging the car while a coal train rumbled by. Full blog linked.

https://chrisalemany.ca/2022/08/15/saving-co2-on-a-cross-country-ev-journey/

A year ago today was our last full day of #EVCrossCanada!! An amazing 1600km. This day we drove from Edmonton to Chase, BC. We took a few nice quiet routes (Highway 1A). Our first charge was the only fully Solar Powered charger we found in Canada, Innisfail, AB. Yes ALBERTA. Leave it to the Farmers Coop to know how to look after the world! We also charged at: Cochrane (Shell), Field (BC Hydro), Golden (PetroCan) and Salmon Arm (ElectrifyCanada). AND we jumped a cattle grate! #CO2 #EV #Car

This day last year. 5 hours sleep and recovering from the blown tire the night before we bought two new ones for the trailer a few hours down the road in Sault Ste Marie. Also checked out the Big Nickel before leaving Sudbury. Pulled into a wonderful little motel at a reasonable hour of the evening just east of Terrace Bay above the shores of Lake Superior. We were now retracing our path.
#EVCrossCanada #driving #EV #roadtrip
Full blog with CO2 numbers here: https://chrisalemany.ca/2022/08/15/saving-co2-on-a-cross-country-ev-journey/

@dmacphee @deltatux Perhaps they still underestimated, but again, especially in BC and Quebec, the fast charging networks we encountered on #evcrosscanada last year in those places were, by far, the best in the country. And in BC this year it has only grown. Every other province is in far worse shape in both scale and variety of charger. I don't think it is a coincidence that those two provinces were led by their publicly owned electrical utilities.

This time last year on #EVCrossCanada we were headed back West. We stopped for a couple nights in Quebec City. Such a beautiful and historic old city full of colonial history. This was just days before the Pope was set to visit the area. I felt it important to make a statement. By now we were charging experts. Our little motel had plugs for block heaters so we got a free trickle charge overnight and got the car to 100% before setting off for a 1000km day across 1/3rd of Ontario the next day!

A year ago today, gazing at the sun as it rose over the East shore of PEI. We had reached the maximum extent of our trek. This province and this campground (Cavendish) was simply the best. Loved it so much. #EVCrossCanada #RoadTrip #Summer #PEI #Camping #EV

Reliving #EVCrossCanada on this day last year we made our way from Central Manitoba into Ontario. We stopped to charge in Portage La Prairie and somewhere outside Winnipeg before crossing the border and into the Canadian Shield with its vast lakes, marshes and rocks. Not many towns out there, so not many chargers, but the ones we found worked like in Ignace with its random plane. We got to Thunder Bay around 11:30PM. The next morning we stopped to say Hi to Terry. ❤️ #ev #Canada #Driving

July 16 2022 #EVCrossCanada. The day I had COVID! I started to cough on the 15th and felt slept the 16th. Eventually tested positive. It was a shame as Riding Mountain was beautiful. Thankfully it was easy to isolate and mask. I wish we stayed here longer than 2 nights but we had a set date in Toronto and a long way to go. The EV and trailer were doing amazing. The impact of the Prairies on CO2 was clear. Our CO2 emissions jumped from 2kg in BC to 274kg after AB and SK. https://chrisalemany.ca/2022/08/15/saving-co2-on-a-cross-country-ev-journey/

#EVCrossCanada Flashback: July 14 and 15. We started at dawn from the campsite outside Jasper with 99% battery but it was only 5°C! That hurt our range so we did some slow climbing through the glaciers to Lake Louise. Then Canmore, Calgary, Dinosaur Provincial Park, and finally Swift Current. Pulled in after midnight. Our first motel block heater charge! Next day we got through Regina and made it all the way to mosquito and frog country at Riding Horse National Park in Manitoba!
#EV #Roadtrip

A year ago today we were camping in Jasper after driving through the BC Interior. 4 charging stops. The National Park campground was stunningly beautiful and chock full of wildlife. The EV excelled in the mountains, consistently giving us more range than we anticipated thanks to the regenerative braking. The next #evcrosscanada challenge: making it all the way from Jasper to Lake Louise on the most beautiful highway I have ever seen. #EV

A year ago we were getting off the ferry to Vancouver at Horseshoe Bay on the first leg of #EVCrossCanada! I am going to try to post once or twice a day over the next few weeks reliving our journey in our Hyundai Kona EV pulling a small trailer and camping/motelling from #portalberni Vancouver Island to PEI and back! I tracked every charge for the EV and at the end wrote a blog about what it's like driving 16,000km. I hope you enjoy reliving the journey with me.
https://chrisalemany.ca/2022/08/15/saving-co2-on-a-cross-country-ev-journey/

Something excellent may be about to come from this #bchwy4 closure and #cameronlakefire at least for our little fam.
We may head West on Saturday to Pacific Rim National Park and Long Beach. The rumour is that it is incredibly quiet... including the campground! Even with single lane traffic opening Saturday morning that is not likely to change much! 😱 😬 😁 We'll see. 🤞This would be a perfect bookend to last year's #EVCrossCanada to PEI. Hoping.

2/2 I now had enough info to figure out, with 1400 people total capacity, a per passenger amount of 5.3kgCO2 per trip. Marine engines commonly measure fuel in L/hr. See image descriptions for all stats.
In my #evcrossCanada stats I estimated 45kg for the four of us covering 3 ferry rides (two BCF, one Chi-Cheemaun). New estimate: 69.1kg. In comparison, flying from Nanaimo to YVR produces 15.1kgCO2 per passenger per trip. #countingCO2
cc: @akurjata @CBCCho

When we went #EVCrossCanada we realized very quickly how much a trailer *and* high speed pulls down your mileage. The trailer was only rated for 100kph so that was our permanent limit but even the difference in mileage between 90 and 100kph for long periods was very noticeable, particularly on the prairies with no opportunities for regen.
Cars are designed to go 90kph.
#Cars #driving #Energyefficiency #carbon #EV #ICE https://mastodon.social/@CelloMomOnCars/110016083291780515

@evan Car, and I wrote about it:
https://chrisalemany.ca/2022/08/15/saving-co2-on-a-cross-country-ev-journey/

#ElectricVehicles #RoadTrip #Canada #EVCrossCanada #Family #CarbonEmissions #CO2 #ClimateAction

One thing you hopefully took away from my long #EVCrossCanada thread is that PetroCanada’s network of chargers is poor. When their head of consumer sales contacted me after the trip we had a good chat, but when I encouraged him to get his bosses to drop selling gas asap and move all-in EVs as a leader in CO2 reduction, he said the company was banking on Carbon Capture.

Which I take to mean, they have no interest in CO2 reduction. It’s all just marketing, all of it.

#climateChaos #ClimateAction

74/ We crawled… and I do mean crawled to a PetroCan. Guess what!? Broken! So we went about 6km up the highway to the trusty BC Hydro station. Plugged in with the red bars staring at us on the dash and 9% on the battery. Lowest of the trip and last charge before home!
(48KW 37m 9-50%)
That’s it.
16267 km
636 kgCO2
3370 kWh
and $1145
I hope you liked it, learned something interesting, or saw a nice picture. I’d do the drive again in a heartbeat! But next time, to Newfoundland!
#EVCrossCanada
/END

73/ We were very keen to get the afternoon ferry so we pushed the mileage and speed down Hwy1! Quick top up at a rest stop in Ashcroft (FLO/BCH 45KW 10m 40-45%)

and long stop at a bowling alley in Boston Bar! We didn’t bowl, but we did play foosball and had a great chat with the owner. More chargers at Bowling Alleys!! (BCH 49KW 1hr 10m 17-92%)

We somehow managed to go as fast as possible while nursing the battery. Rolled on the ferry at just 12%! Maybe cut it a little close. :)
#EVCrossCanada

72/ We awoke in Chase with home on our minds. I popped down the road to the charger as the family got ready. The BCHydro charger was right beside the visitor info office (no public bathroom unfortunately) and also the CPRail tracks. Low and behold, a coal train rumbled by. The world is not without a sense of timing.
(48KW 1hr 5m 23-90%)
ChooChoo!
#EVCrossCanada

70/ On the way to our last night on the road in Chase we charged in:
Field - always reliable BC Hydro! (45KW 16m 30-45%)
Golden - Big charge at a dinner stop at a working Petro Can! (72KW 58m 40-94%)
and a free Electrify Canada stop in Salmon Arm (72KW 24m 24-45%) - Which wins the prize for the most awkward placement of the trip, diagonal, behind a Canadian Tire, off a side street. Darn near impossible to find in the dark!
#EVCrossCanada

69/ With fun and games done at WEM, we could really smell home now! Only two days to go! We charged up in the mall parkade the day before. It was a pay charge L2 and hard to activate so we only charged part way (7KW 2h 30m 69-75%).
First stop featured a charger powered by solar for free at a Farmers CoOp. Darn Socialist Albertans!
(FLO 48KW 41m 34-66%)
Our last charge East of the Rockies was our only at a Shell!
(48KW 1h 3m 20-85%)
#EVCrossCanada

2/ I’ll use this post for tags for the benefit of searching and categorization. If you do not want to see this thread you should be able to filter for the hashtag #EVCrossCanada and that should remove it from your timeline. If you have any questions or comments feel free to reply anywhere.

Thank you for coming along for the ride.
#EV #Cars #Travel #RoadTrip #CarCharging #EVCharging #ClimateChange #CO2 #ClimateAction #ElectricVehicles #Electric #Driving #Family #Vacations