E36 | Road Trip across Canada! (Tesla Model Y)
2021 ж. 1 Қар.
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You can drive across Canada! Come along for the ride and see how easy (or hard!) it is to drive across western Canada in a Tesla Model Y. 
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Erratum: in the video I refer to a place called Lake Loraine. No such place exists! 😆 That was me conflating neighboring Lake Louise and Moraine Lake into one big magical body of water. Canada, please forgive me! 🙏 🇨🇦
Missed your videos. Are you always so calm? It’s an amazing trait to have and we need more of that in this world.
You are much too kind! I'm generally pretty calm by nature (at least externally; internally I'm not so sure tho... haha), but it's pretty impressive what a little video editing can do. When I'm editing these videos together all on my iPhone, I go through a whole bunch of the video clips and think, "Daniel, that was a little spazzy. Let's cut that shot out!" Haha... But definitely, I do try to assume positive intent in life with people in the world - even if they don't intend positivity in return. Being calm and taking the highroad can be a pain in the @$$ sometimes, but ultimately it's what is going to make this planet work out longterm. :)
Thanks for sharing 👍
You’re definitely welcome!
Daniel, the chargers through Saskatoon along hwy #16 to Jasper are now fully functional so you’d have no trouble. Good to see some familiar sights (from Calgary here 😊). That Canadian trip is amazing.
How crazy! They must have JUST turned on! So sad: I really wanted to take that route!! But it all worked out in the end: I drove down to Calgary then up to Edmonton and took that northern route into Jasper and then down to Banff which was speeeeectaccccuuuulaaaarrrr! Very happy with how it all shook out. (Just looking at Jasper and that one is on now, too! PROGRESS!!)
Thank you for visiting Alberta, the rockies, charging and supporting the oil and gas industry :p
You’re welcome. 54% of electricity in Alberta comes from natural gas which is significantly cleaner when used to power an EV than gasoline in an ICE. 36% is coke and coal, and while they are as pollutive as oil/gasoline in an ICE, their usage in EVs allows local economies to power local transportation with local energy instead of powering it with equally dirty oil from abroad. The remaining 10% of electricity in Alberta is zero/near-zero carbon. Not as high as elsewhere in Canada, but a start nonetheless. At the same time, Tesla is working with local wind generation facilities for renewable energy storage so the issue of electrical generation and EVs in Alberta is complex to say the least (and not as clean as in many other Canadian provinces). But powering an EV on the electricity mix in Alberta is still usually cleaner than imported oil/gasoline/diesel and always better for the local economy, workers and jobs… which can’t be ignored as we seek to build out more and more low/no carbon energy and technologies. Much progress still lies ahead.
Lots of good real world info in this video. Thanks for sharing and glad to know that the trip was a success!
Thanks for the feedback. 🙏 Always trying to present useful information for real world trips and experiences for for everyone going electric, and anyone thinking about driving across Canada. And the same information can pretty much be applied to driving across the US. Thanks for watching! 🔋 🚘 ♥️
I live in BC and own a model Y. Awesome video you made here you always welcome to Canada 😊
Thanks for the very kind feedback! 🙏 Canada holds a special place in my heart and I truly enjoyed my drive across (half!) the country. (The other half was in 2008 in an ICE from Maine to Nova Scotia into PEI, Quebec City and down to Toronto.) ❤️🇨🇦
Bravo !!!!
Thanks! It was a great drive! 🇨🇦🚙
Great to see you again. Drive safe!
Great to hear from you! It was a lovely drive and I’m glad you got to see it. 😊
Hi Daniel, always luv your videos. What an amazing experience! Thanks for sharing your pictures and comments about your journey. It was incredibly beautiful up there. I’ve been to Vancouver twice before heading up to Whistler for skiing and Love it! Both times I said to myself that I could live here. Interesting how you spoke about the range when raining. His past weekend, I drove from Boston to CT, rained all the way, as well for the drive back. I noticed I used more kWh on the drive down then when I drove back. I think the wind played a huge part. I did charge to 100% at home before making my journey down and only had to stop once when I got back into MA.
Funny that you mention Whistler. I had actually wanted to take that northern route out of Banff up and over into Whistler and then down into Vancouver but because the weather was so crummy that day, and it was all going to take much longer than expected, I hooked south through Hope instead. Also very charming. But one day I’d like to head up to Whistler. Maybe they’ll have Superchargers all the way up to Alaska by then. ;)
I really enjoyed this video. I've driven across Canada 12x and lived in Victoria for 7 years. Brought back lots of memories and it sure looked like you were enjoying yourself. Thanks
That’s excellent! I’m glad to hear you enjoyed it. It was fun shooting this video and getting to know Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta. In the past I had visited British Columbia, Ontario, Quebec, PEI, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, but the Canadian Prairie & Rockies were all new to me. Really a great trip! But I had to laugh when I was titling the video because I chose “Across Canada” when technically it was only half of Canada. But I thought that might a little wordy on the video thumbnail image. Then I thought about listing it as X Miles across Canada but then I’d have to also include kilometers. So I just stuck with “Across Canada” 😆 Initially I was going to start the trip from Upper Michigan into Ontario but my first Covid test got screwed up and I lost 48 hours of travel time getting a second one so I went straight up through Fargo into Manitoba instead which seemed as great a place to enter as anywhere. Good times! ❤️ 🇨🇦
Thank you so much for taking your time to record this informative video
It was a spectacular trip!!! 😍 And driving through those Canadian Rockies was one of the most beautiful drives of my life. Thanks for watching!
loved this video
Thanks! It was such a lovely trip!! 🥰🇨🇦
Daniel, I loved the video! I took the trip from Minnesota out to Washington state on the US side 2 months back, and I was wondering about the Canadian route. We ended up spending a good deal of time through Yellowstone and Grand Tetons on the way back and did some mountain driving, though not to the extent you did. I wish there was a better charging network up through Kalispell and Glacier on the US side, but I may follow your footsteps and get a little further North my next time out. Thanks for posting the video, and I look forward to seeing more of your adventures!
Hey Chris! Thanks for reaching out. Great to hear that you drove the route on the US side of the border. That was my backup plan in case I had not been able to cross the border for any reason (or if I had to cross back due to any randomly selected quarantine requirements - a small but existent risk). I went to Kalispell in an ICE two weeks before picking up my Y in October 2020 but the area was cloudy and rainy so one of these days I’d love to return. Interestingly, after picking up my Y, the first place I drove to from San Francisco was Jackson Hole, the Grand Tetons and Yellowstone. Unfortunately, I actually had defective power brakes that were causing my efficiency/range to be less than 180 miles, and with cold weather on top and I couldn’t make it through Yellowstone. Plus, charging options were nill so it just didn’t work out. But day drives from Jackson around the area and charging back in town was all good. However, once my brakes finally broke and they got repaired, my range went up around 230-250 miles so one day I’ll make my way back there, too. Definitely though, the whole region could use a couple extra Superchargers. Good news on the Canadian side: Tesla opened up all the Superchargers this month between Jasper and Saskatoon so it’s wide open - you should head up there when you can. Just make sure you go when it’s at least partly sunny. It’s so beautiful up there it needs to be seen in all its illuminated glory. Best of luck on your future drive through one of the most beautiful parts of the planet!
Thanks planning on going from western WA to eastern WA then up to Banff. Then coming back to Vancouver and Victoria. This was great!
You totally can do the trip! Going the reverse route up the western side of the Rockies is probably going to be nice and intense on your Wh/mi(km) numbers, but there are Superchargers along the route so you’ll be fine. It’d probably be best to charge up around 85-90% in many cases, and then keeping your eye on that Energy Trip graph showing how you’re doing during the drive. If you’re burning through more energy than anticipated either because you’re driving fast or weather/wind conditions are intense, then you can always just follow the best pro-tip I can give anyone: simply slow down until the Energy Trip graph gets you back to where you want to be. Once you get closer to your next charge, punch it and speed up. Haha… Banff was super lovely and also the Ice Highway north out of town. Best of luck and enjoy the drive!
@@goingelectric7826 Excellent info. I just did a trip down to Pacific City, OR and the weather was pretty bad. We got about 341 watt hour which was the highest I’ve seen yet. 268 watt-hour was our best back in September. Did you rely more on Teslas nav or did you lean on A better route planner? I do see going up to Banff it looks like some estimates have me getting to a supercharger at 11%. So I’ll spend some time planning and looking into backup options like you did. Thanks so much.
@@MarkStatkus As it turns out I just use the Tesla Nav trip planner in the car which is usually quite accurate ***as long as you drive the speed limit and the weather is perfect***. If it’s not then you can expect to arrive 5-15% lower than estimated. And if temps are near/below freezing you can expect another 20% off. Hopefully one day Tesla will estimate energy efficiency & range based on the weather forecast and the driver’s average driving style. But for those routes going uphill, it’s always good to charge up high before getting on the road. But if you’ll be driving down the back side of the mountain then regen actually results in the mountain not really even being there which is pretty crazy. As for Banff: as far as I recall there were no Superchargers *in* Banff but something like 10-15 minutes outside of town down the hill which I thought was a bit odd. I ended up just charging at my hotel which worked out great. Super cool that you’re heading up there. I really loved it.
Very nice video Daniel. I appreciate the time it too for you to make this! I should be receiving my Model Y within a month. So looking forward to it! Cheers!
Thank you for your kind feedback! 🙏 The videos are a lot of fun and it’s been a really enjoyable hobby during my travels over the past year. Best of luck with your Model Y. I was driving through San Francisco last night and was thinking how much I enjoy driving this car. 😃 If you have any questions about range, route planning or anything else, feel free to reach out!
Cool trip. Loved it. Thanks for sharing!!
Thanks for reaching out. It was a spectacular trip! Those Rockies!!
Wonderful video and you have a great, calming voice. I last was in the Banff area in 1973, also Moosejaw, SK, just to say we were there. Entered Canada through North Dakota in isolated crossing station, not Fargo area. I theoretically get my MX in two weeks and am looking forward to many long road trips off the beaten path and throughout North America. Thank you. I subscribed and will look at previous videos.
Thanks for reaching out and for your very kind words. 🙏 Congratulations on your MX! These are super fun cars to drive and I’m sure you’ll really love it. If this is your first electric car, there certainly are some things you have to get used to when going on longer road trips due to the extra charging times and reduced charging opportunities compared to gasoline stations, but it’s all totally manageable. I am living proof after 52,000 miles of driving back-and-forth across the United States and Canada. numerous times that electric vehicles are a viable option for long distance travel. Looking forward to more chargers being built out across the United States over the next couple years. 😃 Reach out if you ever have any questions about calculating efficiency, real world range, and the rest of it. Once you master a couple basic equations, you can pretty much travel anywhere you want knowing how far your car is really going to be able to go on a charge. Good luck!
My dad used to drive Ontario to BC, stopping at places like lake Louise. I’m seriously on the verge of buying a electric car - always wanted to try this once I have the time.
If you ever have any questions about buying an electric vehicle, reach out and let me know. When chatting about this topic with people, I typically ask them the following questions: 1) will you be able to have a (240V) AC plug installed at your home for the EV? Or will you have easy access to one at your workplace? 2) how far do you typically drive on a daily basis? 3) how frequently do you take long-distance trips such that you would need to charge at public DC chargers? 4) would it bother you to spend 20 to 40 minutes doing so? And then lastly, I would talk about the real world efficiency/range of the EV in question and see if that makes sense for you given your regular driving needs and environmental conditions (super hot or super cold weather; heavy rain or heavy snow, etc). If your needs and conditions fell within the practical capabilities of the technology as of 2023-2024, I would advise you to move forward with an electric vehicle as I have, but if they didn't, I would encourage you to consider a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle until battery electric powertrain technology evolved to meet your needs. But do reach out if you ever have any questions. I'm very ragmatic on this topic and think that providing the best solution for an individual and their needs is the best thing to do, rather than universally recommending EVs if that's not the right solution for the right person.
Great video! Thanks for sharing.
Thanks! It was great driving across Canada and filming! ❤️🏔🇨🇦🏔😃
Daniel, love your videos! I had been missing them recently! This Canada video was great! Should get my “y” next week! Take care!
Thanks for the kind words, and congratulation on the Y. Delivery day is always special!! 🥰🚘
Great video. I did the Canadian Rockies drive after college. Looks even more beautiful than I remember!
Thanks for the kind feedback. 🙏 The whole area is really stunning. I mean, you really can’t go wrong with stunning snow capped peaks, meadows, rivers and wildlife!!
Most Canadians (I’m one) don’t drive far in winter because you may slip into a ditch. Road trips are usually for spring to fall.
I learned that that hard way!!! 😂 It was pretty funny actually: when I was in Winnipeg in October, I ran into a local who told me, “You need to get out of here, soon. WINTER IS COMING!!!” So ominous! But true! 😆
Excellent video. You’ve become a real expert with the pictures and narrative.
Thank you! That's very kind feedback! I've really enjoyed working on these videos while traveling around the US and Canada over the past year. The crazy thing is that I do everything on my iPhone. And doing all these videos has really made me respect people who professionally work in content creation and video production. It's intense work, and to make professional-level content is really complex. But I really enjoy my amateur videos and I love creating videos that can help every-day people learn about regular topics that many of the more-professional videos don't usually address. All very practical stuff to help people make informed decisions if they decide to go electric. Feel free to reach out if you ever have any questions. Thanks for reaching out! 🙏
Vancouver Island is a beautiful place. We’ve visited Malcolm Island off the NE side of Vancouver Island and really loved the slow pace of life up there. Definitely worth a trip up there if you ever have the opportunity to do so. Enjoying your videos - thanks for sharing.
That whole area is really lovely. One of these days I’d like to either drive from British Columbia up to Alaska and check out everywhere in between, or perhaps sail/cruise up the coast. I’ll keep Malcolm Island in mind next time I’m in the area. Watch out, Canada! 😆 Glad you’re enjoying the videos. Thanks for watching!
Ahh the old "flip the breaker" trick. That happened to me when staying at a hotel, seems there was a bad storm in the area and a lightening strike near by tripped the breaker. Luckily I was at 70% and the next morning when I asked the desk to do a breaker flip I was able to charge to 80% before we wanted to depart. Whew, I now always carry enough charge to spend the night and get to the next SC'er on my own. ANY charge I get is just a bonus. Drivin EV's is similar to flying a fighter, it's all about energy management.
Thanks for reaching out. That’s definitely good advice. Typically I prefer to Supercharge at the end of my day when the battery is still warm so, like you, I typically don’t need the hotel chargers. But in the case of Jasper, the Supercharger had not been flipped on yet (apparently it was turned on earlier this month) so I was in a bit of a pickle. It’s kind of funny that if I did that same exact stretch today - just a month later - that whole middle section of the video wouldn’t exist. Superchargers really do change things for the better. 🔋⚡️🚙
Someone compared it to the barnstorming days of the airplane, which I found most appropriate as well as funny. In the Great Plains of US and apparently much of Canada, I guess we need to carry as many adapters as feasible and plan, plan, plan,.
Hi, Daniel, Greetings from India. My name is Kumar Kaustubha Ray, by profession I am a physician - by heart I am a traveler and photographer, love to travel a lot (By my Enfield, Harley - Davidson and my electric scooter, completed 610,000 kms by thirty three years + car odometer), just want to say your presentation, photography are just mind blowing. Have seen every bit of your all videos ....and just wow....
Thank you for your super kind feedback. :) 610,000 kms -- that's amazing! I bet you have seen everything!! Some of us just have the passion, and even the pure need, to travel. I really do love it. I was wondering about it recently while driving from Alberta to California and concluded that my eyes are addicted to watching things pass by. Haha... I bet you have a pretty amazing library of photos from your travels as well. I think it's pretty cool these days what technology allows us to do. I take all my photos and videos just on my phone, and even produce all my videos right on my phone between working during the day and traveling on the weekends. None of this would have been possible before KZhead and the smart phone, and I love it all. Thanks for watching!!!
Finally ordered my Model Y because of you! Xoxo
Yay!!! It's a fun car, and as I mentioned, with just a little bit of planning and familiarity with the things that can affect range, you really can go almost anywhere. Do know that charging and route planning will take a bit of extra time in your life that you currently don't have to think about because gas stations are everywhere, but as DC fast chargers continue to open up, it'll become less and less an issue. For example, I just found out that the northern Superchargers that I discuss in the video finally opened up this week along Highway 16 between Saskatoon > Edmonton > Jasper, so it should be a snap to travel along that route suddenly. Congrats on your Model Y and best of luck!! Feel free to reach out if you have any questions!
Subscribed as I’m collecting an Y in a few weeks after 2 years of M3P ownership.(Oh, and congrats for getting rid of “the smudge”) 🙂
Oh the smudge! Haha. Congrats on your Y! I drove up Highway 1 along the California coast last night and was driving all around various mountains between Santa Cruz and San Francisco this afternoon and I really love driving this car. You’re probably already a Tesla pro but feel free to reach out if you have any questions!
Wow thank you for this video! Being someone who lives in alberta and thinking about getting a tesla it had alot of the questions that i wanted to ask. I really want one but the range anxiety might be too much for me lol :)
Thanks for the feedback! It's an interesting situation: I really like EV technology and I'll never buy another ICE, but I do recognize that many (but not all) people have range needs for their cars that most reasonably-priced EVs on the market in 2022/2023 can't deliver on. Because of that, I always talk with people about their car usage, and based on their answers I let them know if they could/should buy an EV or if a hybrid ICE would be better for them until EV technology advances to meet their needs sometime in the 2030s or 2040s. If I were a regular long-distance traveler living in super cold parts of the content, I'd buy a hybrid ICE. But if I always drove less than 150 miles on the worst of winter days, then an EV would work just fine starting today. Until EV battery densities meet and exceed those of gas tanks (which will take a decade or two) people will be wise to really think about their common usage, their local weather, and then make their decisions with that information at hand. Good luck!
I ordered my MY LR two weeks ago and take delivery in March/April timeframe (fingers crossed). I am planning on taking the family out east to PEI and Halifax, New Brunswick and Quebec Gaspe on the way home. We also went with Blue! After that it's down the the US or out West :-) Excellent video and thanks for sharing.
Congrats on ordering the MY LR! When I finished editing the video and was deciding on a short and sweet title for the thumbnail image “Across 🍁 Canada” I thought, “Daniel, you only really crossed barely half of the country!” Haha. But looking at the number of Superchargers across Canada, the eastern side of the country should be even easier than the western side. Apparently those planned Superchargers I mentioned between Saskatoon > Edmonton > Jasper just opened up which is pretty cool. I’ve driven 37,000mi / 59,000km around North America over the last 13 months and I’ve been pretty much everywhere in this EV. Interstates are totally covered across the entire US and most significant highways. The only places that got a little iffy because of a lack of Superchargers was northern Maine (because I couldn’t cross into Canada at the time), the 4-Corners, the borderlands between Idaho-Montana, and if you want to cut north-south in rural areas between major east-west interstates across the western US. As an aside, at highway speeds expect your efficiency to be around 290Wh/mi to 330Wh/mi (if it’s not raining hard or crazy windy) which would have you at a max range of 72kWh/0.290=248mi to 218mi (396-348km). But since you’ll typically only use 80% of the battery (between a state of charge of 10% to 90%), reduce those numbers above by 20% for practical max range. Best of luck and reach out if you have any questions!
Any updates on the delivery? You really got lucky as Tesla increased the price of the current MYs.
@@thegreatguysp2403 delivery date showing May to June now. Saved a ton already
Such a great video, thank you for making us feel comfortable to finally take that EV road trip!
Thanks for the kind words! 😃 Reach out if you have any questions around the route. Good luck! 🚘🔋🏔
Thanks for the great video. Just got a model 3p thinking about a thanksgiving road trip through the Rockies, live in Wa state so the border is close to me. How is the condition during thanks giving, I do realize there will be lots of snow storms
Congrats on the 3P! 🚀 I did the drive through the Rockies last October and the weather was already getting pretty cold and it had started to snow a little bit on a couple days. You’ll definitely need to check the weather reports before you head up, snow totals and all the rest. And I’d advise winter tires if you’re heading into the mountains if the weather is snowy or the roads are icy. I had my all-season tires on and I was slipping quite a bit on the ice from Banff into BC. Not fun! If you’re going to do the drive from Banff to Jasper, I’d only advise that in good weather with good road conditions, and make sure you’re charged up to 100%. Cold or harsh winter weather can reduce efficiency/range by 30% so you’ll have to take that into account when you plan your route, and you might top up in Lake Louise where there’s a j1772. There are no Superchargers in either Banff or Lake Louise. But if the weather is good it’s a spectacular drive!
Long time no see! As always, great footage & content. Can’t wait to watch the Rockies video! PS: I still have you beat having only leaving Arkansas a hand few of times: 10/24/20 36,563 miles @ 246 Wh/mi :)
Damn you! Haha. As of tonight in Los Angeles I’m at 36,516! @ 290Wh/mi. And the big slap across my face over the past week are the electricity rates of $0.40+/kWh up and down the West Coast at Superchargers compared to the $0.14 I got in South Dakota recently. 😭 I suppose on the upside tho, I can Supercharge in CA after like 10pm and get it as low as $0.20, so…
Nice video; I like how you manage to stay calm where I would've died many times. I can't imagine myself spending one minute worrying about the range, where to charge, etc. When I drive my Range Rover, I just enjoy the drive in a beautiful car, and my mind is always at ease knowing I can fill up anywhere anytime. I want an EV, but I can't mentally afford it.
Thanks for the compliment on the video. 😃 I definitely push my car’s range more than many people would feel comfortable with. In practice, I think the Tesla Model Y could satisfy the needs of maybe 50 to 75% of the personal passenger vehicle market. But for that other 25 to 50%, the technology just isn’t there for them yet nor is the DC fast charging network sufficient enough for a lot of people. I think that will take a good 3 to 7 years before charging pretty much becomes a non-issue in most parts of the United States and Canada. So, until then I think it’s fair for many people to sit out electric vehicles and instead focus on hybrids and other efficient ICEs. One day I think most cars will convert over to electric but that will take some time. Thanks for watching!
You’ll be surprised of how many Tesla you’ll see on the road, here in Greater Vancouver. Enjoy your trip.
I was totally surprised once I arrived in Vancouver and saw that. I stopped at the Surrey Supercharger and it was packed. And then I stayed in downtown and there were Teslas everywhere. Pretty impressive! Seems to be the same case down here in California where I currently am. The West Coast sure likes their/our Teslas. 🥰
If you set a departure time and allow the battery to precondition while plugged in, that will help with cold affecting the range also.
That is certainly true. Un/fortunately, I have been traveling around the United States and Canada for the past 16 months and I do not have access to a home charger. Most of my charging is Supercharging so I usually have to precondition while I’m driving since I also usually don’t have access to a J-1772 charger - unless I’m at the rare hotel with a charger. Ah… life without constant electricity. 😃
If you ever try this again you should come up In Canada you should try cold lake Alberta. That's why I'm from and it's a very beautiful area also. And a lot of good tourist locations to check out on Is Canada day
That’s a great idea. I really enjoyed my time in Alberta and would love to return again one day. When I was there I just wanted to drive north north north! 😃
Good stuff looking to do the same trip soon. Pro-tip, Li-ion batterires are able to charge the fastest when it's at its lowest point (ie: it takes 30min to supercharge from 0-80-% and same time if you were at 40%-80%) Using an app like ABRP helps you optimize / plan your route so you spend more time on the road.
Thanks for the great feedback, and thanks for watching! 🙏
As a Canadian, living in Winnipeg, waiting for my MYLR, I really appreciated your insight. Very good information. What would have been helpful for me is to understand what it ultimatly cost you in charging to go from Winnipeg to Vancouver.
Hello hello. Thanks for reaching out! It’s funny you mention that: I had received a 1000 free miles referral that kicked in just as I was going through Minnesota so I actually didn’t pay for electricity until I got into Saskatchewan/Alberta. I was happy about the referral miles but it did throw off some of the data that I could have reported. 😭 I am just about to finish charging at a supercharger in Reno, Nevada on a drive from Chicago to San Francisco, otherwise I would look it up online. You might be able to find the supercharger rates online. Some states/provinces charge by the kilowatt hour and others charge by the minute. At home/residential rates, however, are always the best option. Good luck!
Your comment about not everything being compatible with every thing was perhaps more insightful that you realized. at 6:26 you show the plug faces that you could encounter in any RV park - not just here in Canada. Newer bigger parks will have all 3 of these outlets, smaller older parks will not have the NEMA 14-50 on the left. This is critically important because if you carefully compare the holes in the 10-30 outlet to your NEMA adapter chart - you will see that tesla DOES NOT sell an plug adapter that fits these 10-30 outlets. That because these are not dryer outlets these outlets are called and require at 10-30 TT (travel trailer) and WILL NOT take the "dryer plugs" adapters you showed and spoke of. To use these 10-30 TT outlets, you have to use the Tesla NEMA 14-50 that you spoke of and goes directly into the the Tesla mobile connector(which you didn't show so non tesla owners wont have any idea what either yo or i am talking about) PLUS a second adapter that most LARGE motorhome owners have as standard equipment when they visit old small parks. The RV industry calls these "dog bones" but if you buy one from AMAZON etc the one you need is called NEMA 14-50F (female receptor) to NEMA 10-30 TT M (male plug prongs that go into the outlet illustrated). I have seen videos of EV drivers arriving at RV parks with 14-50 and being - to use your expression SOL - because the park didn't have these bigger outlets and they didn't have the 10-30TT adapter.
You are absolutely correct. That is one of the main reasons I prefer to stay along the Supercharger and J1772 routes because the interoperability and offering of plugs/adapters can be complicated, at best. (And it’s just easier.) Definitely though, if someone is going to stray out of the Supercharger/J1772 universe and into 10-30 / 10-30 TT and NEMA 14-50 territory, a good amount of research should be done in advance, especially whether or not the EV park in question even allows EV charging or is set up to take reservations for it. The receptionist at the park I briefly stopped at looked at me like I was crazy for even suggesting it. 🤣 Thanks for your wonderful comment. Many of us will find it very helpful!
An American taught me how to drive my Tesla (efficiently) across my country to my city (Vancouver). Who would have thought. 🤣 I’m grateful. Thanks. 🙏
Looking forward to you learning your own lessons and you sharing them with others as more and more people go electric. Good luck!
Seems like an amazing trip. Was there ever any range anxiety?
It was a phenomenal trip, especially the Rockies. Nature can really put on a show sometimes! I didn’t have any real range anxiety on the trip because, after having driven 37,000 miles all around the United States over the past year, I am very range aware and understand what the car is capable of and how my driving habits (and weather!) impact worse or better range. I am also pretty good these days at planning out my charging stops so in that sense it was just more of the same. But without the supercharger being activated in Jasper just yet, that does present the charging complexities discussed in the video that will likely be eliminated once that supercharger is turned on in the next month or two. For the time being though, I would say that if people want to do that route and drive an EV, they should take a couple days to do so. One day should be based in Jasper and making sure you have enough electricity for all the local excursions you can do there, charge overnight, and then spend the next day driving down through the park where the main goal is just getting from Jasper down to Lake Louise/Banff without any side trips, and then on the third day doing some outings in Banff/Lake Louise locally ensuring you have enough charge. It would be nice if Tesla could get a supercharger opened up in Lake Louise or somewhere along the route in the park. I’m definitely looking forward to the day that fast chargers are as common as gas stations. But to answer your question directly: someone not as keen to plan out their charging routes or keeping their eyes on the range the car, and who did lots of side outings, they could theoretically experience some real range problems as they got further into the trip.
Great and awesome video. I ll just stick with my gas cars for now.
Definitely, EVs aren’t for everyone right now. I think they can actually do well for 50-75% of the personal passenger vehicle market (commercial is a different story - not a viable option currently). But for the other 25-50% of the market, they should buy hybrids or efficient ICEs and wait 3-7 years before buying an EV once charging times are faster and battery capacity is bigger. Good luck!
Is that a Pulse facemask?? 💖 Thanks for the vids as always!!
It definitely is. I went to the memorial back in February and have been representing with this black and white Pulse mask - and also a bright blended rainbow Pulse mask - ever since. 🥰🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️😔
@@goingelectric7826 ❤❤🩹 #orlandostrong
Hey man, I love your videos! Keep ‘em coming! I do have a huge question for you though. A buddy of mine has a model three and it’s about 2 1/2 years old. And he’s about to purchase a model Y but is terrified of using superchargers because he’s using an app, online, and it’s telling him that he’s at 70% battery health. So he scared of using superchargers. My question for you is what is your battery health considering you use the superchargers so frequently. Thanks for all that you do!
That’s interesting. Based on everything I’ve read about Teslas, with “proper” care, Model S batteries after 7-8 years typically only lose something like 10% of their capacity. I don’t use any third party apps, but when I run my own basic math equations, I’m still coming out at 70-71.5kWh usable battery capacity and the car shipped with about 72kWh, so I’m down by only 1-3%. And I Supercharge about 95% of the time. Although I’ve only had the car for 13 months, I’ve put about three years worth of miles on it (37,500) compared to an average driver so I feel pretty confident my experience is quite indicative of intense battery performance and charging. It would be interesting for your friend to bring the charge down low and then charge it up high to see how much energy actually gets into his battery. In my case, when new, a 100% charge would mean that each 1% of the battery would equal 0.72kWh of energy (72kWh/100%). Therefore, a 24%-91% Supercharge is 67% of the battery or 72kWh*0.67=48kWh. In an actual recent charge that worked out to 47kWh (Tesla doesn’t provide decimals which would be helpful). To find the current max usable battery capacity, just take the actual 47kWh charge and plug it into the following equation: X(0.67)=47kWh. Therefore, X=47kWh/0.67 = 70kWh. Or… 47KWh/67 percentage points= 0.70kWh per percentage point, multiply each percentage point of 0.70kWh by 100 percentage points = 70kWh. But again, Tesla doesn’t reveal decimals so it’s not entirely precise. Sometimes it’s up around 71-71.5kWh. Also, it appears that a battery’s chargeable capacity increases and decreases a couple percentage points even between adjoining charges. Just curious: how many miles does your friend have on the car? Also, one thing I take very seriously is the need to precondition the battery before DC Supercharging and letting that battery warm up before I ram electricity into it. Apparently cold fast-charging a battery can result in advanced degradation. So all of the above is to say: after 37,500mi, my battery capacity is still very impressive. But in the end this is all new technology and Tesla is pretty opaque about battery degradation and I read things all over the map on the topic. In my case, however, it doesn’t (yet) seem to be a problem. If it is for your friend, you might have him schedule a service appointment with Tesla since they have access to all that data. They’ll probably tell him his battery is “within performance expectations” but it’d be helpful if he could get a number verified by a Tesla tech and compare that to his app numbers. Or do the basic charging test I mentioned above. (Although I’m not sure what the M3 *usable* battery capacity is at delivery - compared to the TOTAL battery capacity shipped new since a couple kWh are always removed as a buffer. That’s probably online somewhere.) Let me know if you have any additional questions. I love this sort of stuff.
PS: I use the Model S example above because Model S simply has the greatest numbers of years of data available. Also, I typically keep my Model Y charge in the range of 15-80% for regular usage, but on rare occasion between 5-100% if I’m going longer distances and need to squeeze out real range. Also apparently, batteries should be kept in a 20-80% (or perhaps 10-90% per Elon) range for regular driving/charging and best battery health. Batteries perform best when not under or overcharged.
@@goingelectric7826 thank you so much for that detailed response! I went ahead and talked to my buddy and he feels a lot better thanks to you!
Have you considered a ceramic coating for the front bumper?
Hello hello. As far as I understand, I did the ceramic coating on the entire car and then the front third of my car also received paint protection film. I did that around 17,000 miles (I’m at 50,000 miles now). From what I understand, ceramic coating does not protect the front of the vehicle from paint chip damage but rather just protects the longevity of the paint in general. The paint protection film is supposed to provide some protection on the front of the car.
Hi Daniel, what an amazing trip. Do you keep a spare tire on your model Y?
It’s kind of funny that I don’t. I feel like I *should* but I just haven’t. I’ve finally made my way back to California and I’m not traveling with all the stuff I used to carry with me so now I have some extra space and I’ll likely get a spare. I’ll just want to make sure I can tie it down somehow so it doesn’t bounce around in the event of a crash or something. I did get a flat when I was in Miami (razor blade!) and Tesla mobile support fixed that. But if I were in the middle no-where I’d kind of be S.o.L.! Eeek! 😬 I do travel with a tire pump and repair kit tho in case I drive over something small. Apparently many new cars are ditching the spares. Hmmm… 🤞 Thanks for the kind words and watching!!
Great video! The Canadian Travel Board should give you free charging for the nice video.
Haha. TOTALLY!!! Next time I can drive across eastern Canada! ❤️🇨🇦
Do you have the long range or performance Y model? Also, which month did you travel. We have a Tesla Y performance and I have range anxiety. We are looking at this trip in either spring or fall.
Hey! Thanks for reaching out! I have a 2020 20" MYLR that typically averages 290Wh/mi or 3.4mi/kWh. With a usable battery capacity of 70kWh that works out to a total average range on a 100% charge of 241mi, or a 90% range of 217mi assuming I only charge up to 95% and then charge down to 5% before recharging. The drive from the Jasper Supercharger to Lake Louise is 153 miles so that was totally doable. The drive from Jasper to the Banff Supercharger outside Banff is quite a bit farther at 192mi so that starts getting a little dicier depending on speed and weather conditions. Personally, I think you won't have any problems with the range if: 1) you stick to the speed limit, 2) weather conditions are not challenging, 3) you put the car in chill mode in order to improve your average driving efficiency (Wh/mi or Wh/km), and 4) you don't take ANY detours off the main road (like I did which ate range). If you're going to do any excursions in the Jasper area, do them all while based in Jasper, then charge up to/near 100%, get on the road and then head straight south. Or same if you're starting your journey on the southern end of the highway. I did drive from north to south so I'm not sure if there are any changes in efficiency going from south to north (say, if there were more of an incline that direction that would increase your Wh/mi numbers (which would be worse)) so you may want to go to the Tesla website and run the numbers they show there. Lastly, if your Y was build after March 2021, I believe that means you should have 74-78kWh usable battery capacity instead of my 70-72kWh which would increase your range by 12-24 miles which could be helpful for you. If you want to send me your average Wh/mi (or km) numbers I can run a couple calculations for you. In any case, I'd plan on charging up to 100% regardless of whether you get on the road in Jasper, Lake Louise, Banff or the Supercharger outside of Banff. But I do think you'd make it. And as always: when in a pinch, just slow down and the miles return nicely to your battery. Good luck!
Going to Alaska would be cool, as far as I know only 1 guy documented it on KZhead
Totally! It's funny you mention that: I took a 3-week trip up to Alaska in Summer 2020 when I was thinking about buying a Model Y and after driving around Alaska in an ICE I just wondered, "How do electric cars even exist up here?! There are no DC Fast/Superchargers!" For a while it looked like there was maybe one in Anchorage but apparently not. I think Tesla is planning one in the Kenai Peninsula. But it seems like it's going to be several years at least before an EV could easily do the Anchorage > Denali > Fairbanks > Tok > Valdez > Anchorage loop with fast chargers, that I did with an ICE. But apparently locals do have EVs and they make them work with home 120-240V chargers and public L2 chargers. Pretty crazy! I imagine the main focus for EVs at least throughout the 2020s will be on lower latitudes and more populated parts of the planet before Alaska and Siberia. Haha
@@goingelectric7826 Look up Tesla Social on KZhead. Guy took an epic solo road trip all the way up to Fairbanks in his Model 3 performance. It gets very lonely past Prince George in an EV for sure. He lived off level 2 charging at RV camps.
@@goingelectric7826 bdw awesome video. Funny I had a similar situation going up to Edmonton via Jasper. Left a note someone car that I needed a full charge for Edmonton the next day. Thankfully most of those superchargers in Alberta and BC going up north are active now including Jasper. Might take a solo trip up to Prince George this winter.
@@AbhijotSolanki Super cool that you were able to take that trip. I've found that other EV drivers in equally challenging environments regarding charging are pretty accommodating when fellow EV drivers like us show up begging for access to electrons as well. Especially non-Tesla drivers whose charging realities are far worse than ours. Best of luck with the Superchargers that were apparently all switched by last week along that northern route from Jasper > Edmonton > Saskatoon.
Hi, great video. If you don't mind sharing, I'm curious to know approximately what was the total charging cost for this trip in Canada?
Hello hello! Interestingly, much of the trip was either free or very low cost because I had received 1000mi free Supercharging because I had referred someone to buy a Tesla before they ended that program; then most of my hotel charges were included in the cost of the hotels, or were at least heavily discounted. So… for 4,800km I only spent a total of C$164 on 1,069kWh of electricity which had me at an average efficiency of 224Wh/km, or an average cost of C$0.034/km which is crazy cheap. However, when I took the trip in September-October, electricity at the few Superchargers that I had to pay for went for around C$0.30/kWh, so if I had actually only Supercharged the whole trip, then I would have roughly paid 1,069kWh*C$0.30 = C$320 to drive 4,800km, or C$320/4,800km = C$0.067/km, or we could just say 7-cents per mile. So, if you’re looking to compare to an ICE vehicle, that cost-per-km number is a great metric to understand cost savings between ICEs and EVs. It’s also good because different ICEs and EVs have different cost-per-km numbers so it also applies across ALL different types of vehicles. And then you can also include maintenance-per-km, depreciation-per-km and insurance-per-km if you wanna go totally crazy. Haha. Let me know if you have any questions!
Seems like you were having some issues driving in the cold and slippery conditions. Any flats or low pressure? Do you recommend better tires over the OEM?
Thanks for watching! Unsurprisingly, my all season tires didn’t exactly provide the best handling on the ice. I like the OEM tires, but I can really understand why people across this part of the continent have their different summer and winter tires - all very exotic coming from California. As for flats… over the last 37,000mi, I got one flat when I drove over a razor blade in Miami and Tesla Mobile Support was able to come out and replace the tire. Aside from that, I haven’t had any problems. I did replace my tires at 26,000 miles in Santa Fe (@ 2/32!), I drive with a mobile repair kit (which I haven’t had to use), and I also have a 12V mobile air pump which I use every once in a while to keep tire pressure constant all around. Very handy. One of these days I may consider buying a spare tire for any future long distance trips… but knock on wood I’ve made it this far without one. Possibly due to lots of praying. 🤣🙏
Did you get a spare tire for your trip to Canada?
Hi! I didn’t get a spare tire. But I do travel with a 12V tire pump and a tire repair kit which I fortunately didn’t need. However, 9 months ago in Miami I did run over a razor blade and that required a mobile service tire replacement. I’ve driven 37,000 miles in my MY over the past 13 months, and I’m thinking that if I continue to do so then I might consider buying a spare tire to travel with. Just in case.
Hi there I live in Ontario Canada. Just a quick note I don't see you speaking about cost of Super Charging in Canada. Are you using your referrals? At this point they are not doing referrals so it will be $ for me :-) (delivery for my almost identical spec model Y is June :(
Thanks for reaching out. So interesting that you ask! Super bizarrely, I was getting free charging from Wisconsin through Minnesota, North Dakota, Manitoba and Saskatchewan. I only started paying once I left Saskatoon. It was WILD... and I loved it! But I didn't know why? Perhaps someone had my referral code? If so, I'm SUPER appreciative. Or was it because *two* Superchargers were closed on my route through Minnesota and that stretch got a little hairy?? I'll never know. But once I got into Saskatoon and beyond, the average rate ranged between US$0.19/kWh to US$0.23/kWh, until I arrived in Vancouver and it jumped to US$0.30-$0.35/kWh, and then down the US Pacific coast where it's between US$0.35-$0.43!!! 😭 Best of luck with your Model Y! It's a lot of fun!!!
Great videos! Looks like a wonderful bucket list type trip.
Thanks! It was definitely a nice drive! 🏔🚙
you did not drive Across Canada Sir! it's half way across Canada (Manitoba - Vancouver). I drove from Quebec City to Vancouver, THAT'S THE ACROSS CANADA. Took me 18 days during the snow storm.
You are sooooooo right. It actually turned out that when I was creating the video thumbnail and the title on it, every option I came up with just was too wordy for the the image or title. Like, "2000mi/3000km across half of Canada!" Or, "Western Provinces and the Plains and Rockies but not Yukon, Northwest Territories or Nunavut!" So, I got just a little kick-bait'y and went with two words and a maple leaf. "Canada, please forgive me. I was aware of the sin as I was committing it!!!" 🙏😭 (Awesome that you did Quebec City to Vancouver!) 😄
Daniel, I’m so sorry. You missed Canadas most beautiful city, Victoria, BC AND Canadas most beautiful drive, Vancouver Island. Please, please return in the future. Take the Coho ferry from Port Angeles, Washington. It lands and departs from downtown Victoria….and by downtown I mean downtown, right in front of the Provincial capital building. Please take a peek at this on Google Earth. You missed the crown jewel of Canada. From the crossing back to Port Angeles you can take the Hwy 101 along the coast to Astoria, the oldest city west of the Rocky Mountains. The movie Goonies was filmed there, and the city is truly out of the 1800’s. Any renovations to the buildings must be done to period, so the entire city is truly a gem. Follow the Oregon coast for scenery that is out of this world……and it all starts from a visit to Vancouver Island. I’m so sorry that you chose to return to the USA from Vancouver. You truly missed the best experience that North America offers.
Hey! Thanks for the excellent info! As it turns out, on a previous non-Tesla trip some years ago I had visited Victoria which is super lovely, and then did the loop from Aberdeen > Forks > Port Angeles > Port Townsend over to… Admiralty Bay (??) then I believe it was into Everett and down into Seattle. I was actually in Victoria again during this video but I was with a friend the whole time - and we did a night time tour - but I didn’t get much footage so it didn’t make the final cut of the video, but everything was very charming at night. 😊 Then after leaving Canada I drove to Seattle down to Portland and Salem then headed straight out to the Oregon Coast and spent three days snaking along the ocean into San Francisco during that insane storm a week and a half ago (video of car splashing water and object into my lane). Definitely, that whole area up and down the Pacific Northwest is gorgeous! 🥰
Beautiful locations can you please share the locations where the car was going in those beautiful mountain roads ?
Hi! The mountain locations are: Edmonton along Highway 16 west into the town of Jasper and Jasper National Park. Then south through the park along Highway 93 to Lake Louise and Moraine Lake (which I accidentally called Lake Loraine!). Then down to the town of Banff. After that I drove north a little along Highway 1 up to Castle Mountain then west over Highway 93 to Golden, Kamloops, Hope and into Vancouver. It was all very lovely!
@@goingelectric7826 it was beautiful
You didn't cross Canada ,, You crossed half way across Canada !! You got another 2 days drive in the other direction ...
So true! Unfortunately “Half Way Across Canada” didn’t fit on the video poster frame. 😭 However, on a previous trip I did drive from Maine/New Brunswick out to Sydney, Nova Scotia then through PEI to Quebec City, Montreal and Toronto back into the U.S., but that one never made it to video. Certainly a long drive for that side of the country as well. For this video I had thought about entering Canada along the eastern side of the Great Lakes but due to covid border crossing considerations at the time (getting test results back, possibility of being rejected, or randomly selected for observation/quarantine, etc.) I decided to simply enter from North Dakota since I had begun the journey in northern Illinois. I still wanna do that stretch around the Great Lakes one day, and on a separate trip from Vancouver up into Alaska. Next time!
Geeeze doesn't seem worth it
That’s a fair assessment. Because of the lack of DC fast chargers in the park and in the area overall, at this exact moment, the trip in an EV would not be worth it to a lot of people. And for those who do decide to take the trip, they will certainly need to plan and keep their eye on range. Once DC fast chargers and Superchargers start opening up all around, these issues will rapidly start going away. But I am quite happy to push the range of my car, both in terms of miles and geography, and that does require quite a bit of planning in the year 2021.