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Winnipeg is far south of where I usually am, and rather near the US border. It might be comparable to China what with the sea nearby and all those lakes.

I'm out in the middle of the prairies, where -40C is a normal winter day, and 100km winds are also ... normal. Mind, -20C to -30C is far more common, and -50C almost never happens where I am now. (it was a lot more common in FSJ, or in the badlands near Drumheller).

Fort St John BC however has almost exactly the same temperatures and weather as Yakutsk. Mind, it wouldn't be considered a city on these scales.

People do NOT understand how cold Canada gets. And I'm way south of places like Nunavut, the Yukon (mind, Yukon is warmer than Saskatchewan, mostly), or any of the Northwest Territories. I guess y'all think of balmy Toronto or the like. (or - by comparison - tropical Vancouver BC. Vancouver is warmer than Seattle, for the most part. Wetter too, largely, but not as wet as Prince Rupert or Kitimat).

Anyway that's mostly not here or there for EVs. EVs on the whole work really well on the prairies - especially if they've got mitigation for -50C and +50C (both temperatures happen regularly, at appropriate times of year). For the most part, more reliable than diesel at those ranges too.

The local frustrating part is while Alberta has an ok electrical grid, Sask is an unstable grid dependent on coal and low maintenance. (I mean, we do have Uranium City too ... heh..). Saskatchewan is poor, by Canadian standards.