Return Day 5 (last day) - ON to Home

So, not sure we'd repeat the Days Inn again...

Most chargers charge by the kW...Petro Canada charges by time, which makes no sense as they are the fast chargers - we'd pay more to charge quickly; instead we're typically paying more for a slow charge...odd...And mea culpa on the Petro Canada slam...they're the best and the worst - they're the fastest and least expensive available to us - they just need to be clearer about where they have chargers and where they do not, also they should have an app for status of charger. Rule of thumb - use fast chargers except when you need a slow to get you the final kms to a fast charger.

Another random thought we've mentioned before - a cold battery really slows charging down - either use the conditioning feature or charge often enough that the previous charge still has the battery temp up.

Listening to the news in the breakfast room at the hotel - sounds like we're just ahead of a storm system hitting the Prairies, and just ahead of rainy weather to come at home - we've lucked out with the perfect weather window - sunny and about 12 degrees most of the way!

First stop today, Blind River.

Next up, Sudbury - only getting 83 kW at the fast charger, but no alternative as the unit beside it is out of order. Grabbed lunch at grocery store again - more salad to balance life on the road!

The Parry Sound Horseshoe Lake charge was lovely - started out at 83 kW again - there was a truck plugged in next to us, and we're pretty sure when there’s 2 units side by side, car 2 (us) plugs in and car 1's power drops (the units seem to have a maximum limit). It jumped to 180 after a while (when car 1 was almost full). Then when we got over 50%, power dropped down to 130kW (trucks gone). Maybe 50% is when it drops off? (we'd formerly thought it dropped off above 80%)...we're done - that was the final charge!! Only a couple hours home now...and it was lovely because while we charged we could sit in the warm sun with a dog happy to be out of the car for a bit ;).

Home, sweet home! And we're appreciating having put in the largest level 2 we could as plugging in at home will only take 4 hours to get us from 30% to 80%.

The trip home was a breeze relative to the trip out, for several reasons...but temperature was a big one. And as mentioned, we were very lucky...new friends of ours we met in Nelson headed home at most a week before us in an ICE - they got stranded overnight in their vehicle because they hit a snow storm west of Thunder Bay that closed the road, and then to boot, they hit a deer between the Soo and Sudbury which did a lot of damage to the car (maybe totalled?) - in fact, we think we saw Bambi on the side of the road today :(. In any event, suffice to say, there are a lot of possible hazards on a cross Canada trip, and we were lucky to avoid them on this trip!!

Chart of Charge History

It is interesting to note that we spent about 8 hours charging. So about 4-6 hours longer than an ICE car (considering eating and dog walks