Great Video Simon. You are getting better at editing with each new video. I absolutely love PEI. We stayed at the KOA right next to Ann of Green Gables, (I never read the books either). Looking forward to your next video. We plan to drive in our Flash from Haines, to Anchorage in the spring. The closest Ford Dealership to us is in Wasilla, AK. It is 723 miles from Haines, our closest starting point from Juneau. It promises to be an adventure. You know the definition of an adventure? A poorly planned vacation.
Haha! Well said about 'planning' & adventures! I see you read my guidebook 🙂. Really working hard on my editing skills and education, in between shoots and post. I have so far to go in being able to share the stories in the way I'm hoping for, but I'm slowly getting there. That sounds like an amazing trip. Are you going to document it & share?
@truckedupevs - thanks for focussing on our neck of the woods! Too bad you didn’t get to see the province in the summer at its best. It is an amazing province but it’s a frigid little icicle hanging on the edge of Canada during the fall and winter.
It deserved waaaay more focus! I simply ran out of clock and $$. Anyone in Canada who hasn't been there hasn't truly seen this country. Thank you so much for the ongoing support & feedback!
Well, that was trip down memory lane! I flew out of Summerside in the early '80's. "A flying Pug", snort! I think the Tracker guys may (or may not) be offended. I have thoroughly enjoyed your series Simon. Your analysis of the Canadian EV scene is excellent, and your debunking of the FUD producing anti-EV'ers has been outstanding. Drive safe and give us more buddy.
A little more help towards your go pro. I appreciate the massive amount of time and money you put in to this across Canada trip. I so enjoyed it that I felt like I was almost riding along. Keep the videos coming, I'll be there watching.
PEI has one Supercharger but that should be enough because it's only 140 miles long and the Supercharger is smack dab in the middle. The last time I was there was six or seven years ago and there were no chargers at the time. I had a Volt then which fortunately didn't need to charge but it would have been nice if it could. The only level 2 charger on the whole island that I could find was at the wind farm at the end of the island. It hadn't worked in years. The people at the visitor center said that it only worked for about six months before the sea air killed it. The Province had promised to fix it but they never did. Glad to hear that things are better now.
The sea air is brutal! PEI pulled itself up form the bootstraps and figured out what Nova Scotia obviously still hasn't. I wish I could have spent more time here. Time & $ said otherwise :-) Thanks Joshua for the insight & for sharing your experience!
@truckedupevs Thanks for these videos. I'm really disappointed in the status of Nova Scotia. Going back to Cape Breton is on our list but it's not possible at the moment. The last time I was there was in the early 90s but of course I was driving a gas car then. One summer I decided to see how far North I could get so I hopped into my car, pointed it North, went up through Maine to New Brunswick then to Nova Scotia then to New Foundland and finally to Labrador where the roads stopped. Don't know if it's changed but back then there was only a fifty mile stretch of road on the coast, nothing to the interior. Couldn't do that today because of the lack of charging infrastructure but I would have thought that Nova Scotia which is a lot more developed than New Foundland would be in better shape than it is. Everytime Tesla opens up their Supercharger voting I vote for anything in that part of Canada and I lobby the New England Tesla Motor forums to get people to vote. We are mostly in great shape in New England so getting our neighbors to the North fixed up should be our priority.
@@joshuarosen465 I wish the NS Provincial government would read your post. Thank you so much for your support not only for the channel, but for my country - currently classified as the '51st State' by some ;-). Someone like yourself - like me - wanting to journey & adventure here, spend money & support the locals - all not possible because of NS's lack of foresight. NFLD & Quebec have done some 'interesting' things as far as EV charging networks. I hope to share it with you in the early summer. Pretty exciting stuff.
I can't resist to laugh when I see videos of other people coming to PEI asking questions, confused about things, and not knowing where anything is. I find this hilarious because everything that gets said in videos like this is normal life for me.
I have been offered some very sharp blades as 'gifts' but I'm thinking they're not of the latenight-shopping-channel-offered Ginsu kitchen knife variety.... ;-)
We couldn't do PEI in 2 days. Too many things to see. Very beautiful but shuts down after Sept long weekend as we found out. We have done Newfoundland 3 times. Plan ahead because the distances are enormous so are the views. Incredible place. If you go down every side road you'll never get out. We've tried it. Too many incredible vistas. Stay charged up cause you'll need it.
Awesome feedback & advice, Phil! Thank you! I am setting aside a LOT of time for NFLD & have something up my sleeve. Should be an amazing adventure. Sounds like you are quite the explorer. Well done!
Haha! Well, when we're standing with our beggar's bowl extended, we'll take what we can get 🙂. Absolutely, 150's are the 'bare bones' but I'd be happy with a doubling short-to-midterm.
PEI is made for EVs, especially with today's generation of batteries and charging speeds, both AC and DC. The gap is now cheap public L2 charging, for non home owners. Also up to date 150kw chargers are needed to replace to first Flo units. Thanks to Flo for getting us this far, but the EV landscape is really at the 350kwh level now
Let you in on a secret... I didn't like it either lol. Though the CBC did film one of the series just up the road from my grandfather's home... Outside Toronto....
Of the 38000 km I've driven with my 23 XLT SR since last November 95% was on PEI and plugging in at home 16 amp 220v level 2. Agree the rolling hills, short distances and lower speed limits are EV friendly. And it's a good job it is with the resistant heat on the SR, especially this time of year. I'm not wasting any lithium with excess capacity, I can confirm I'm using all of it. My daily commute is Charlottetown to Summerside and then kids to the rink and soccer fields. I live about 3 minutes from the V3 Tesla, my adapter finally arrived, so if I need a a quick top up ASAP I can head down there. Too bad it was dark the western end of the province is quite scenic. Skinners ponds (Tignish) most famous resident sang this one: th-cam.com/video/HtySGSuKZe8/w-d-xo.html
I was on such a time restriction but would have loved to have stayed at least a couple of days. I am appreciating the heat pump in the ER '24. Range loss is certainly less tha my 23 SR XLT.
@@truckedupevs Yes it's an energy hogg in the cold, not going to disagree with you there. I drive 96 kmh and cab temp is set to 18. That resistant heat to the battery is the big one. Anyways still liking the vehicle. They stripped too much features off the 24 XLT and not sure if I'm willing to jump up to the Flash. They are nice though, 302a just like the 23 XLT too. I'm just going to live with it! Better than listening to lifters tick away on a Hemi and 100 dollars to drive around the block.
@@peiguy1982 I agree. The vapour-injected heat pump is noisy at times, but works like a dream. And yeah, once we've driven them for a while it's almost impossible to go back. I think we're a year - at the most, two - away from a technological leap-frog with ev trucks, so I think we'll both have 'new toys' to consider very soon.
@@truckedupevs Dealer did not laugh when I said 55k plus tax today for trade in (seems like the value is going up as the year goes by?). Thought there was a 24 XLT on the lot but it's spoken for. Anyhow I see there is resistant heat with the new design heat pump as well. So good for any temperature. I would trade if the numbers were right. My efficiency for the past 1500 km (cold) is 34 kwh/100 km. Not awful. What does your flash average? Are we talking 10 percent improvement or more?
@@peiguy1982 The trip at 100% hwy (110kph) speeds, driving into wind for most of the 1st 20k km, I averaged 30~31kwh/100km. Now that I'm back. I'm in the 28~29 range w/outside temp hovering around freezing day/just below overnight.
Thanks for that. I went off the last 'official' census of 2021 of 154,331. However, you are certainly correct that current 2024 estimates are coming in between 175k & 179K.
@@truckedupevs I've been around looking at propertly lately and I can say in my entire life (I'm in my 7th decade) I have never seen as many housing starts... it causes me to think even your high estimate is low and I expect the next census with surprise people unless a lot of our newcomers leave the province -- which, recent history has shown, they often do. They don't like it here very much but those communities are putting down roots more and more. On another topic: I have to say I really don't care for what EVs are doing to our roads. We only have sandstone shale to build with and the heavier psi loading combined with a lot of vehicles having lane assist of some kind, we have these trenches now on almost every road that we never had before except on roads that had been long neglected -- we're getting this on two and three year old surfaces and it's frankly dangerous if someone had a slightly different width vehicle than the average, or especially if they have alighment/suspension/tire problems. I think we might eventually have to consider restricting EVs during the spring weight restrictions that we have to apply to transport trucks every year (you have to lighten the trucks by a considerable amount or you have to keep them off the road -- confiscation is one of the penalties that can be applied for violations). And, frankly, I'm almost sick in my stomach about what wind and solar installations have done to the natural landscape of what is rapidly becoming a less beautiful province. But, you're correct about Charlottetown and there's one woman who is largely responsible for Charlottetown retaining its heritage look. I encourage you to figure out who that is on your own. She's not exactly a friend of mine, but we know each other -- she'd be really old now. Anyway, I really enjoyed your segment and I understand and appreciate the enthusiasm about EVs and all things alternative energy related. I just think the price we are paying is way too high for technology that isn't either mature or environmentally friendly, or both. The grotesque amount of industrial processing that goes into setting up a wind turbine, the pathetic lifespan of them, the grotesque leftovers, the permanently removed habitat which preceeded it, and the fact that, by my count, about 20% of these things are not turning at any given moment (thus putting their max efficiency ceiling at 80% of whatever they say it is), it's all too much. And, we can have EVs without windmills and grotesque amounts of grid-destabilizing (expensive), net-billed, solar installations. I just do not see why I should pay extra so someone down the road can make their property ugly, or cause their roof to leak, and get a discount on his energy. Just build another nuke and lower the prices for everyone. Anyway, thanks for the space. We have to live with EVs, I think they can be made lighter and I think that's coming, and we will soon smarten up on wind and solar -- that grift just can't last... there's way too much "pyramiding" in those industries for them to surivive long. Not typical MLM stuff, but a lot of everyone agreeing that things are quite different than what measurable reality is saying.
Buy an EM EV & leave the EM lights on to reduce Earth's increasing magnetosphere due to crossing the equatorial ecliptic Jesus warned us to watch & prepare for.
Great Video Simon. You are getting better at editing with each new video. I absolutely love PEI. We stayed at the KOA right next to Ann of Green Gables, (I never read the books either). Looking forward to your next video. We plan to drive in our Flash from Haines, to Anchorage in the spring. The closest Ford Dealership to us is in Wasilla, AK. It is 723 miles from Haines, our closest starting point from Juneau. It promises to be an adventure. You know the definition of an adventure? A poorly planned vacation.
Haha! Well said about 'planning' & adventures! I see you read my guidebook 🙂.
Really working hard on my editing skills and education, in between shoots and post. I have so far to go in being able to share the stories in the way I'm hoping for, but I'm slowly getting there.
That sounds like an amazing trip. Are you going to document it & share?
Great vid Simon. Once again superinformative. You really have your finger on the EV pulse... cross continent!!
Thanks you, Lonesome Don! Still playing that amazing National?
@truckedupevs - thanks for focussing on our neck of the woods! Too bad you didn’t get to see the province in the summer at its best. It is an amazing province but it’s a frigid little icicle hanging on the edge of Canada during the fall and winter.
It deserved waaaay more focus! I simply ran out of clock and $$. Anyone in Canada who hasn't been there hasn't truly seen this country.
Thank you so much for the ongoing support & feedback!
Well, that was trip down memory lane! I flew out of Summerside in the early '80's. "A flying Pug", snort! I think the Tracker guys may (or may not) be offended. I have thoroughly enjoyed your series Simon. Your analysis of the Canadian EV scene is excellent, and your debunking of the FUD producing anti-EV'ers has been outstanding. Drive safe and give us more buddy.
Thanks for your kind words and support! Keep an eye out for more new stuff coming soon.
A little more help towards your go pro. I appreciate the massive amount of time and money you put in to this across Canada trip. I so enjoyed it that I felt like I was almost riding along.
Keep the videos coming, I'll be there watching.
Thank you so much for the support - really appreciate your kind words & for sticking around!
Thanks!
PEI has one Supercharger but that should be enough because it's only 140 miles long and the Supercharger is smack dab in the middle. The last time I was there was six or seven years ago and there were no chargers at the time. I had a Volt then which fortunately didn't need to charge but it would have been nice if it could. The only level 2 charger on the whole island that I could find was at the wind farm at the end of the island. It hadn't worked in years. The people at the visitor center said that it only worked for about six months before the sea air killed it. The Province had promised to fix it but they never did. Glad to hear that things are better now.
The sea air is brutal! PEI pulled itself up form the bootstraps and figured out what Nova Scotia obviously still hasn't. I wish I could have spent more time here. Time & $ said otherwise :-)
Thanks Joshua for the insight & for sharing your experience!
@truckedupevs Thanks for these videos. I'm really disappointed in the status of Nova Scotia. Going back to Cape Breton is on our list but it's not possible at the moment. The last time I was there was in the early 90s but of course I was driving a gas car then. One summer I decided to see how far North I could get so I hopped into my car, pointed it North, went up through Maine to New Brunswick then to Nova Scotia then to New Foundland and finally to Labrador where the roads stopped. Don't know if it's changed but back then there was only a fifty mile stretch of road on the coast, nothing to the interior. Couldn't do that today because of the lack of charging infrastructure but I would have thought that Nova Scotia which is a lot more developed than New Foundland would be in better shape than it is. Everytime Tesla opens up their Supercharger voting I vote for anything in that part of Canada and I lobby the New England Tesla Motor forums to get people to vote. We are mostly in great shape in New England so getting our neighbors to the North fixed up should be our priority.
@@joshuarosen465 I wish the NS Provincial government would read your post. Thank you so much for your support not only for the channel, but for my country - currently classified as the '51st State' by some ;-).
Someone like yourself - like me - wanting to journey & adventure here, spend money & support the locals - all not possible because of NS's lack of foresight.
NFLD & Quebec have done some 'interesting' things as far as EV charging networks. I hope to share it with you in the early summer. Pretty exciting stuff.
I can't resist to laugh when I see videos of other people coming to PEI asking questions, confused about things, and not knowing where anything is. I find this hilarious because everything that gets said in videos like this is normal life for me.
I sure wish I could have spent more time there. I loved it.
Well the Japanese viewers have just left the chat, they love Annie
I have been offered some very sharp blades as 'gifts' but I'm thinking they're not of the latenight-shopping-channel-offered Ginsu kitchen knife variety....
;-)
What a charming area. Definitely adding it to my list of road trip stops.
It's a great place to visit, but it's a bit of a drive from BC! Glad you enjoyed it, Ben!
We couldn't do PEI in 2 days. Too many things to see. Very beautiful but shuts down after Sept long weekend as we found out.
We have done Newfoundland 3 times. Plan ahead because the distances are enormous so are the views. Incredible place. If you go down every side road you'll never get out. We've tried it. Too many incredible vistas. Stay charged up cause you'll need it.
Awesome feedback & advice, Phil! Thank you!
I am setting aside a LOT of time for NFLD & have something up my sleeve. Should be an amazing adventure.
Sounds like you are quite the explorer. Well done!
The other ev TH-cam channels is saying at least 150 kw fast chargers should be the minimum speed.😊
Haha! Well, when we're standing with our beggar's bowl extended, we'll take what we can get 🙂. Absolutely, 150's are the 'bare bones' but I'd be happy with a doubling short-to-midterm.
PEI is made for EVs, especially with today's generation of batteries and charging speeds, both AC and DC.
The gap is now cheap public L2 charging, for non home owners.
Also up to date 150kw chargers are needed to replace to first Flo units. Thanks to Flo for getting us this far, but the EV landscape is really at the 350kwh level now
I agree.
i was trying to figure out where i've seen you before and then my wife just walked by asking if you were Obi Wan.
"The Force is strong with this one..." (but he had all his teeth).
Let you in on a secret... I didn't like it either lol. Though the CBC did film one of the series just up the road from my grandfather's home... Outside Toronto....
That's the biggest secret you'll ever keep in Canada... unless you tell someone! SHHHH!
:-)
Great job. Interesting and very scenic. Thx.
@@thomasrutledge1052 Thanks again!
Of the 38000 km I've driven with my 23 XLT SR since last November 95% was on PEI and plugging in at home 16 amp 220v level 2. Agree the rolling hills, short distances and lower speed limits are EV friendly. And it's a good job it is with the resistant heat on the SR, especially this time of year. I'm not wasting any lithium with excess capacity, I can confirm I'm using all of it. My daily commute is Charlottetown to Summerside and then kids to the rink and soccer fields. I live about 3 minutes from the V3 Tesla, my adapter finally arrived, so if I need a a quick top up ASAP I can head down there. Too bad it was dark the western end of the province is quite scenic. Skinners ponds (Tignish) most famous resident sang this one: th-cam.com/video/HtySGSuKZe8/w-d-xo.html
I was on such a time restriction but would have loved to have stayed at least a couple of days. I am appreciating the heat pump in the ER '24. Range loss is certainly less tha my 23 SR XLT.
@@truckedupevs Yes it's an energy hogg in the cold, not going to disagree with you there. I drive 96 kmh and cab temp is set to 18. That resistant heat to the battery is the big one. Anyways still liking the vehicle. They stripped too much features off the 24 XLT and not sure if I'm willing to jump up to the Flash. They are nice though, 302a just like the 23 XLT too. I'm just going to live with it! Better than listening to lifters tick away on a Hemi and 100 dollars to drive around the block.
@@peiguy1982 I agree. The vapour-injected heat pump is noisy at times, but works like a dream. And yeah, once we've driven them for a while it's almost impossible to go back. I think we're a year - at the most, two - away from a technological leap-frog with ev trucks, so I think we'll both have 'new toys' to consider very soon.
@@truckedupevs Dealer did not laugh when I said 55k plus tax today for trade in (seems like the value is going up as the year goes by?). Thought there was a 24 XLT on the lot but it's spoken for. Anyhow I see there is resistant heat with the new design heat pump as well. So good for any temperature. I would trade if the numbers were right. My efficiency for the past 1500 km (cold) is 34 kwh/100 km. Not awful. What does your flash average? Are we talking 10 percent improvement or more?
@@peiguy1982 The trip at 100% hwy (110kph) speeds, driving into wind for most of the 1st 20k km, I averaged 30~31kwh/100km. Now that I'm back. I'm in the 28~29 range w/outside temp hovering around freezing day/just below overnight.
Population estimate is a bit low... it's between 180 & 200K now.
Thanks for that. I went off the last 'official' census of 2021 of 154,331. However, you are certainly correct that current 2024 estimates are coming in between 175k & 179K.
@@truckedupevs I've been around looking at propertly lately and I can say in my entire life (I'm in my 7th decade) I have never seen as many housing starts... it causes me to think even your high estimate is low and I expect the next census with surprise people unless a lot of our newcomers leave the province -- which, recent history has shown, they often do. They don't like it here very much but those communities are putting down roots more and more.
On another topic: I have to say I really don't care for what EVs are doing to our roads. We only have sandstone shale to build with and the heavier psi loading combined with a lot of vehicles having lane assist of some kind, we have these trenches now on almost every road that we never had before except on roads that had been long neglected -- we're getting this on two and three year old surfaces and it's frankly dangerous if someone had a slightly different width vehicle than the average, or especially if they have alighment/suspension/tire problems.
I think we might eventually have to consider restricting EVs during the spring weight restrictions that we have to apply to transport trucks every year (you have to lighten the trucks by a considerable amount or you have to keep them off the road -- confiscation is one of the penalties that can be applied for violations).
And, frankly, I'm almost sick in my stomach about what wind and solar installations have done to the natural landscape of what is rapidly becoming a less beautiful province.
But, you're correct about Charlottetown and there's one woman who is largely responsible for Charlottetown retaining its heritage look. I encourage you to figure out who that is on your own. She's not exactly a friend of mine, but we know each other -- she'd be really old now.
Anyway, I really enjoyed your segment and I understand and appreciate the enthusiasm about EVs and all things alternative energy related. I just think the price we are paying is way too high for technology that isn't either mature or environmentally friendly, or both. The grotesque amount of industrial processing that goes into setting up a wind turbine, the pathetic lifespan of them, the grotesque leftovers, the permanently removed habitat which preceeded it, and the fact that, by my count, about 20% of these things are not turning at any given moment (thus putting their max efficiency ceiling at 80% of whatever they say it is), it's all too much.
And, we can have EVs without windmills and grotesque amounts of grid-destabilizing (expensive), net-billed, solar installations. I just do not see why I should pay extra so someone down the road can make their property ugly, or cause their roof to leak, and get a discount on his energy. Just build another nuke and lower the prices for everyone.
Anyway, thanks for the space. We have to live with EVs, I think they can be made lighter and I think that's coming, and we will soon smarten up on wind and solar -- that grift just can't last... there's way too much "pyramiding" in those industries for them to surivive long. Not typical MLM stuff, but a lot of everyone agreeing that things are quite different than what measurable reality is saying.
Buy an EM EV & leave the EM lights on to reduce Earth's increasing magnetosphere due to crossing the equatorial ecliptic Jesus warned us to watch & prepare for.