Alright, now we'll see how well linking back to my old Twitter archive will work. This time last year we were finally giving the Kona a bath after 16,000km of #EVCrossCanada. The one time I attempted to put the car through the carwash on the road was in Thunder Bay and I somehow managed to run up a curb. Then realized the carwash was closed. So it didn't get washed for the entire trip. This must have felt good.

https://twitterarchive.chrisalemany.ca/chrisalecanada/status/1559747106973163521/

This day last year was our final day on our 16,000km #EVCrossCanada trip. We proved you could reduce your CO2 on long trips by driving across Canada. We found out the different CO2 intensities for electricity in every province. I calculated 637kg of CO2. Most of that, 516kg, from charging in Alberta and Saskatchewan. A jet going the same distance would emit 103,000kg. It was appropriate I started this day charging the car while a coal train rumbled by. Full blog linked.

https://chrisalemany.ca/2022/08/15/saving-co2-on-a-cross-country-ev-journey/

Ooo… I just found one of my absolute favourite photos from the trip. A perfect Alberta prairie foothills road. You can *just* see the Rockies in the haze in the distance. Near Madden, AB. I really do love the scenery of the Prairies. Just amazing. #EVCrossCanada #Prairies #Canada #CrossCanada #Alberta

A year ago today was our last full day of #EVCrossCanada!! An amazing 1600km. This day we drove from Edmonton to Chase, BC. We took a few nice quiet routes (Highway 1A). Our first charge was the only fully Solar Powered charger we found in Canada, Innisfail, AB. Yes ALBERTA. Leave it to the Farmers Coop to know how to look after the world! We also charged at: Cochrane (Shell), Field (BC Hydro), Golden (PetroCan) and Salmon Arm (ElectrifyCanada). AND we jumped a cattle gate! #CO2 #EV #Car

This day last year. 5 hours sleep and recovering from the blown tire the night before we bought two new ones for the trailer a few hours down the road in Sault Ste Marie. Also checked out the Big Nickel before leaving Sudbury. Pulled into a wonderful little motel at a reasonable hour of the evening just east of Terrace Bay above the shores of Lake Superior. We were now retracing our path.
#EVCrossCanada #driving #EV #roadtrip
Full blog with CO2 numbers here: https://chrisalemany.ca/2022/08/15/saving-co2-on-a-cross-country-ev-journey/

As a counter point to this depressingly clean-energy doubting article, I give you another #EVCrossCanada post. On this day last year we made the long trek from Quebec City to Sudbury! It was… easily… our worst day by far of the whole 16,000km trip but even then the worst thing that happened wasn’t charging related at all!
1) Horrendous Quebec and Ottawa traffic
2) A very long charge in Petawawa
3) And at 11PM… with another 2 hours to go… a trailer tire burst. We made it to Sudbury at 2AM.

This time last year on #EVCrossCanada we were headed back West. We stopped for a couple nights in Quebec City. Such a beautiful and historic old city full of colonial history. This was just days before the Pope was set to visit the area. I felt it important to make a statement. By now we were charging experts. Our little motel had plugs for block heaters so we got a free trickle charge overnight and got the car to 100% before setting off for a 1000km day across 1/3rd of Ontario the next day!

A year ago today, gazing at the sun as it rose over the East shore of PEI. We had reached the maximum extent of our trek. This province and this campground (Cavendish) was simply the best. Loved it so much. #EVCrossCanada #RoadTrip #Summer #PEI #Camping #EV

Reliving #EVCrossCanada on this day last year we made our way from Central Manitoba into Ontario. We stopped to charge in Portage La Prairie and somewhere outside Winnipeg before crossing the border and into the Canadian Shield with its vast lakes, marshes and rocks. Not many towns out there, so not many chargers, but the ones we found worked like in Ignace with its random plane. We got to Thunder Bay around 11:30PM. The next morning we stopped to say Hi to Terry. ❤️ #ev #Canada #Driving

#EVCrossCanada Flashback: July 14 and 15. We started at dawn from the campsite outside Jasper with 99% battery but it was only 5°C! That hurt our range so we did some slow climbing through the glaciers to Lake Louise. Then Canmore, Calgary, Dinosaur Provincial Park, and finally Swift Current. Pulled in after midnight. Our first motel block heater charge! Next day we got through Regina and made it all the way to mosquito and frog country at Riding Horse National Park in Manitoba!
#EV #Roadtrip

A year ago today we were camping in Jasper after driving through the BC Interior. 4 charging stops. The National Park campground was stunningly beautiful and chock full of wildlife. The EV excelled in the mountains, consistently giving us more range than we anticipated thanks to the regenerative braking. The next #evcrosscanada challenge: making it all the way from Jasper to Lake Louise on the most beautiful highway I have ever seen. #EV

A year ago right now we were getting off the ferry to Vancouver at Horseshoe Bay on the first leg of #EVCrossCanada! I am going to try to post once or twice a day over the next few weeks reliving our journey in our Hyundai Kona EV pulling a small trailer and camping/motelling from #portalberni Vancouver Island to PEI and back! I tracked every charge for the EV and at the end wrote a blog about what it's like driving 16,000km. I hope you enjoy reliving the journey with me.
https://chrisalemany.ca/2022/08/15/saving-co2-on-a-cross-country-ev-journey/

Funny thing is, exactly one year ago today I was doing exactly the same thing. Making final checks on the trailer lights before we embarked on #EVCrossCanada We left for PEI on July 11, 2022. I may start a thread reliving the trip. :)

6/ Did I mention how beautiful this slice of sand is, no matter the weather. There are waves in the ocean, in the sand, and in the sky! I got this hate last year at the National Park at Riding Horse in Manitoba on our #EVCrossCanada trip to/from PEI! In 12 months we have literally driven, and dipped our feet in, from the Pacific to the Atlantic to the Pacific! Our NP family pass expires this month. #Travel #Tofino

Something excllent may be about to come from this #bchwy4 closure and #cameronlakefire at least for our little fam.
We may head West on Saturday to Pacific Rim National Park and Long Beach. The rumour is that it is incredibly quiet... including the campground! Even with single lane traffic opening Saturday morning that is not likely to change much! 😱 😬 😁 We'll see. 🤞This would be a perfect bookend to last year's #EVCrossCanada to PEI. Hoping.

2/2 I now had enough info to figure out, with 1400 people total capacity, a per passenger amount of 5.3kgCO2 per trip. Marine boats often measure fuel in L/hr. See image descriptions for all stats.
In my #evcrossCanada stats I estimated 45kg for the four of us covering 3 ferry rides (two BCF, one Chi-Cheemaun). New estimate: 69.1kg. In comparison, flying from Nanaimo to YVR produces 15.1kgCO2 per passenger per trip. #countingCO2
cc: @akurjata @CBCCho

When we went #EVCrossCanada we realized very quickly how much a trailer pulls down your mileage *and* high speed as well. The trailer was only rated for 100kph so that was our permanent limit but even the difference in mileage between 90 and 100kph for long periods was very noticeable, particularly on the prairies with no opportunities for regen.
Cars are designed to go 90kph.
#Cars #driving #Energyefficiency #carbon #EV #ICE https://mastodon.social/@CelloMomOnCars/110016083291780515

@evan Car, and I wrote about it:
https://chrisalemany.ca/2022/08/15/saving-co2-on-a-cross-country-ev-journey/

#ElectricVehicles #RoadTrip #Canada #EVCrossCanada #Family #CarbonEmissions #CO2 #ClimateAction