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owenwil | 2 years ago

This is what's happening in Canada, very aggressively. One of our biggest petrol companies (Parkland, who owns Pioneer, Columbia Fuels, Ultramar, Chevron, and many Esso franchises) has an aggressive plan to install fast chargers at basically all of their locations—and convert their retail to destinations with stuff to do while you wait[0]. They're already aggressively executing on this; where I live in BC they're already installing them up and down the highways, so I use them frequently already. One interesting thing they do is give you discounts on things like coffees or burgers if you're charging; smart way to get you inside.

[0] https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-parkland-ga...

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xxpor|2 years ago

I just drove from the US border to the yukon, and the amount of fast charging available in BC, even north of Prince George, shocked me! We took our diesel truck for other reasons, but we thought we could have done this trip in the model 3 with the CCS converter no problem.