Well, that's disappointing. It looks like they left the Maritimes out of their plan too.Unfortunately electrify Canada really just means metropolitan east and west coast of Canada. Absolutely nothing in central Canada. I'm in Manitoba. The only way I could drive to Toronto or Vancouver with a BEV is by driving through the States. BEVs are otherwise pretty much landlocked in central Canada. It might change a bit in the fall with Petro-Canada stations sporting new chargers. Although its not clear what capacity these chargers will have.
Maybe, I've not seen their complete rollout, but for bang for the buck it makes sense to start in major urban/populated areas and go from there. However, others are also stepping up like Camion and Petri-Canada, that will offer more connectivity along the Trans-Canada Highway coast-to-coast.Well, that's disappointing. It looks like they left the Maritimes out of their plan too.
Nissan has announced that this year's Skyline will get Navigate on Autopilot, with full hands-off operation. On-ramp to off-ramp, no touching the wheel.
Hopefully the Leaf will get it soon too.
Nissan has announced that this year's Skyline will get Navigate on Autopilot, with full hands-off operation. On-ramp to off-ramp, no touching the wheel.
Hopefully the Leaf will get it soon too.
Yes tech progresses in small steps. It probably will at some point, however I'm old school and would not trust it for complete driving.
This slightly better article shows that, like autopilot, you have to have your hands on the wheel when it wants to make a lane change: https://www.engadget.com/2019/05/16/nissan-skyline-propilot-2-driver-assist/#/
I know it can do hands off in he US but according to Consumer Reports it drives badly and sometimes breaks the law: https://arstechnica.com/cars/2019/0...st-autopilot-far-less-competent-than-a-human/
"Autopilot" is a generic term for these systems, like "hoover" has become generic for vacuum cleaners.
Nova Scotia got a bunch of Flo Level 2 and fast chargers a year ago which allow you to travel around the province without a problem. https://blog.flo.ca/nova-scotia-launches-network-of-12-new-fast-charging-stations/ . New Brunswick is also building out their charging stations network. https://www.nbpower.com/en/about-us...-vehicles-continues-to-grow-in-new-brunswick/. Drove to PEI last year and it was all Level 2 stations --just as well the distances there are limited.Well, that's disappointing. It looks like they left the Maritimes out of their plan too.
That's an extremely compact battery, especially as it has no cooling.
I hope they bring the new ProPilot to the Leaf soon. Hands free navigate-on-autopilot for motorways, on ramp to off ramp.
I did a 800km round trip on the week-end with my 2018 LEAF and had multiple fast charges where the 1st fast charge of each day was at 41kWh and the subsequent ones at 21kWh. I've been really wanting to find out how the Leaf Plus goes with multiple fast charges. It's interesting that there haven't been any reports of problems which makes me a little hesitant to make the assumption that there aren't any. But maybe bad news gets more attention than good news. I hope you get the opportunity to do multiple charges in one day with freeway driving. This past week-end I kept the car's speed at 100km/hour to reduce energy consumption and to keep the battery temperature under the hot line. Last year I did the same trip and went the 120km/hour speed limit for 2 hours of the trip on the way there. After the last charge the car warned that the battery was over heating and the power would be reduced. Kind of freaked out my daughter who was driving at the time.I'm going to be reviewing a Leaf Plus later this month and the early reports are the pack works great with no thermal issues or throttling. 70kW to 80%, then tapers to 40+kW to 100%. That is outstanding when using a 100kW or higher DCFC EVSE.
I'll see what I can do to it when I have it.
I did a 800km round trip on the week-end with my 2018 LEAF and had multiple fast charges where the 1st fast charge of each day was at 41kWh and the subsequent ones at 21kWh. I've been really wanting to find out how the Leaf Plus goes with multiple fast charges. It's interesting that there haven't been any reports of problems which makes me a little hesitant to make the assumption that there aren't any. But maybe bad news gets more attention than good news. I hope you get the opportunity to do multiple charges in one day with freeway driving. This past week-end I kept the car's speed at 100km/hour to reduce energy consumption and to keep the battery temperature under the hot line. Last year I did the same trip and went the 120km/hour speed limit for 2 hours of the trip on the way there. After the last charge the car warned that the battery was over heating and the power would be reduced. Kind of freaked out my daughter who was driving at the time.
I love my 2018 Leaf and on my rare road trips I factor in its charging limitations.
Part of the problem is that there are very, very few 100kW CHAdeMO chargers available. It's hard to properly test it with only 50kW available, although hopefully it can at least get near 50kW consistently.
Ideally it will be like the Kona and Niro, able to do multiple 75kW charges and 120km/h runs without an loss of charging speed.