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yabonesyesterday at 5:33 PM1 replyview on HN

There are a massive amount of new EVs in Quebec, which isn't exactly tropical. Part of it is subsidies, $2K for new EV, and $600 for charging. The other thing is the crazy scale of hydroelectric production in that province, some of which gets exported as far as Baltimore. So electricity is very available and reasonably cheap in QC.

We'll see how BYD's handle the bone chilling Montreal winters... Unless they're an absolute flop, I can see some fairly solid future prospects.

(I live in Ontario, but I've been to Le Belle Province quite a bit ;) )

https://www.quebec.ca/en/transports/electric-transportation/...

https://www.quebec.ca/en/transports/electric-transportation/...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bay_Project


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cmrdporcupineyesterday at 8:29 PM

As an EV driver from Ontario it's amazing crossing over, or even getting close to the border, the EV situation is just so much better.

That said, while hate Tesla the company ... I'll take their chargers over the patchwork of various apps & cards I have to install in order to make use of things there. There's a notable absence of Tesla stations there, but a lot of variety of other things and I had bad luck installing half the apps and it was not fun trying to set that all up while standing in the -20C cold in a gas station parking lot while just trying to get to the ski hill.