Putting Range Anxiety to the Test: Day 3 - not so easy peasy!

We spent the night in Magnetawan. We arrived with 170km and boosted that to 200km with an overnight trickle charge. We drove 10km to the municipal offices in Magnetawan and used the Lakeland fast charger there - charged to 400km at 140 kwh for 0.62 per kwh. Fantastic. In Sudbury, we pulled into the PetroCanada on Regent Street only to find that the credit card readers on both chargers had been vandalized and were unusable. We called PetroCanada and were put on hold for 20 minutes. So we abandoned that option and headed to the Flo charger at the Southside GMC dealer - slow at 50 kwh, so we headed to the Salute Café across the road and enjoyed a delicious lunch. Charging is pricey at 0.55/min. $37.48 for 50 kwh -an additional 200 km.

We left Sudbury with 440km - enough for the 310 km trip to Sault Ste Marie. However, we stopped in Blind River (165 km) to try the Ivy charger at the Tim Horton's. Tim's was under renovation and the entrance was fenced off. However, construction workers kindly opened the gate and let us use a charger - only one of two was working. We had 280 km and added 90 km at a price of 0.69/kwh. While we waited, we enjoyed a coffee at The Well - a drop-in centre for children and youth in this town that doesn't have much else to offer in terms of leisure activities for this age group. The place was filled with young people, playing, watching tv, snacking and seemingly having a good time. We were impressed.

We arrived later than planned in Sault Ste Marie with 220 km. We'll trickle charge overnight at our motel and get a full charge before we leave on Monday for the charging wasteland between here and Thunder Bay - 700 km. We hope to find reliable chargers in White River and Terrace Bay. Fingers crossed!

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