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Originally Posted by Badhobz (Post 9212927)

manually initiate the charge and manually stop it when it hits 80% or else face their congestion charge.

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Originally Posted by AstulzerRZD (Post 9212961)

Did you setup plug and charge or is that not available for Canadian Solterra/bZ?
you shouldn't need to mess with the app.

When I was talking to the Subie sales dude yesterday, he told me the Solterra is plug-and-play at Tesla chargers. But he said I would have to set up SubaruConnect in order for plug and play to work.

Obviously I would take what the sales dude says with a grain of salt, and I haven't looked into this myself. But potentially, I think it would be worth Badhobz' while to look into it.

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Originally Posted by SSM_DC5 (Post 9212917)

I don't want to spend 40-60k for EV when I can just keep my sub 15k car and spend 25k in gas over the next 10 years crawling around the city.

This is precisely the issue I am contending with right now. Do I want to spend $50k+ to replace our 10+ and 15+ years old ICE cars with an EV? or should I keep the $15k combined (if I'm being generous) worth of cars and spend that $30k on gas over the next 10 years?

He'll have to do a self-broadcast when he pulls up to a station so we can see the rage fit he has.

thats exactly why im not doing any more road trips with the EV. no gracias meng.

when i take my annual norcal / oregon coast trip this year, im going to do it in the ES or the RX, or steal the inlaws SC430 again.

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Originally Posted by RabidRat (Post 9212975)

Lol we're going to give him hope, only for him to realize that the biggest perk to Electrify America is witnessing that look of fear / rage in somebody else's face, when they pull up to a charger and realize it's broken again.

It's an unmistakable expression :lol

(i guess it's less funny when that look is on your own face)

hes gonna buy the cheaper amazon adapter and bitch that it blew up his port

Nonono it's fine, it's fine. We're kidding, you're gonna be fine!

...but please, do set up a live stream for your next road trip... no reason...

:fuuuuu:

.......:awwyeah:

:yuno:

.......:lawl:

:okay:

.......:fullofwin:

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Originally Posted by RabidRat (Post 9212975)

I once pulled up to one that had caution tape all around it LMAO

That said, 2024 EA was like 60% success rate
2025 EA is like 95% now

FWIW within Metro Vancouver, I think Electrify Canada only has a single charging site in Langley.

And then their (charging) chain is at Abbotsford, Hope, Merrit, and Kelowna.

I guess owners are better off relying on other non Electrify Canada chargers?

Yeah, EA is more of an american thing (they were forced to build out a bajillion station with VW dieselgate money).

Metro Van's pretty saturated:
Tesla's got a ton of stations that work great (unless you have 800v car like Ioniq / Lucid).
BC Hydro in a lotta spots and they have both NACS and CCS so you don't have to bring adapters.
MB also launching a bunch of stations.

^yep, hydro sites popping up like crazy

then u got the crazies that will cut up the wires because fuck EVs

BC Hydro charging worked great when I had the Polestar, they just need more stalls.

Came for the Badhobz rant

Stayed for the hehe propaganda response

Fulfilling afternoon :cool: :Popcorn