The most eye-stealing highlight is the Flash Charging technology, which works in conjunction with the latest Blade Battery 2.0.
– Charging from 10% to 70% takes only 5 minutes.
– To charge to 97%, it only takes 9 minutes.
– Even in temperatures as low as -30°C, it can still be fast-charged in 12 minutes.
I’d really love to see how one of these does here in Northern Canada. There are almost no electric vehicles here because of the performance of batteries in the long, cold winter.
Isn’t that similar to Norway where now almost no non-EV cars are being sold?
No, big difference. In Northern Norway, average temp in January is -4C, in Northern Canada it’s -40C.
Chargers don’t even work at -40C.
There are good reasons why most of Canada lives near the US border and in regions below US states.
That sounds awful to deal with. Sometimes I wonder why people live in such conditions but I guess that’s just humanity for you.
Also cool fact -40C is -40F
One question: how long is the typical vehicle trip in northern Canadian settlements? I know a lot of northern cities lack road connections to other places, so the range being impacted may not have a huge impact if trips are measured in single or double digits of km increase of triple digits.
Well to get from the western interior coast(Bella Coola) from the closest main city in the interior(Williams Lake) is about 500 km. Even then there is five charging stations on the way and there are some solar farms going in on the Chilcotin plateau so the small communities in the area have power without needing to run major lines to power them.
To get from the north coast (Prince Rupert) to the north interior(Smithers) there looks to be around 7 stations along the way and stations all the way along north towards the Yukon. Now you might not be able to get too far away from the main highway but there is little reason to go too far away from the main highway multiple times. If you have a destination off the highway just make sure you charge at the closest station and have enough change to get back or the ability to charge where you are parking like a b&b.
Most northern communities have a concentration of people and then it’s a long way to go to get to the next community. So, there’s a bunch of short drives and the occasional long drive.