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🍿Now that the High Mileage Model 3 is back from its trip to Hamilton, Ontario, 🇨🇦, let's break down the stats of the road trip.
Winkler ➡️ Hamilton (🇨🇦 route)
Distance: 2,357 km (1,465 miles)
Total Charges: 24
Total Cost: $139.65 CAD ($102.47 USD)
Hamilton ➡️ Winkler (🇺🇸 route)
Distance: 2,260 km (1,404 miles)
Total Charges: 13
Total Cost: $171.21 CAD ($125.62 USD)
The trip was a success and the drive home was made much, much easier with the new LFP battery pack. The guys were able to take advantage of the faster charging while also being able to drive 75-80 mph as opposed to doing the Canadian route where the speed limit was limited to 55 mph for a large chunk of the drive due to that part of the Trans Canada being two lane highway.
Full cost of repair work done to Model 3 along with Dan and Dusty's thoughts on their first EV road trip through some of the most challenging parts of the Trans Canada Highway are to come later this month in our battery swap YouTube video.
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We’re going to attempt to livestream from this lake in North Western Ontario 🇨🇦 this evening. In case the livestream doesn’t work, drop your questions below and we will film the video and post it late tonight or tomorrow morning
I need your help!! @mylestoamillion and I are planning to do a YouTube live stream and X Spaces later on today talking about the first few weeks of his travels on our Road to a Million journey. If the livestream does not work, we will film a Q&A video and post it this weekend, so we are asking you guys to let us know your questions in the comment section so we can get to them for the video.
Also, the trailer for next week's first video of Ron's trip to Dawson City, Yukon goes live tomorrow, and you wont want to miss that!
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I need your help!! @mylestoamillion and I are planning to do a YouTube live stream and X Spaces later on today talking about the first few weeks of his travels on our Road to a Million journey. If the livestream does not work, we will film a Q&A video and post it this weekend, so we are asking you guys to let us know your questions in the comment section so we can get to them for the video.
Also, the trailer for next week's first video of Ron's trip to Dawson City, Yukon goes live tomorrow, and you wont want to miss that!
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After nearly 3 years, my time at Alpitronic has come to a close - and I'm leaving with a lot of gratitude for the company, the team, and what we built together.
When I joined @Alpitronic in November 2023 as the second hire in the US sales/product/engineering org, there was a single HYC400 installed publicly in North America - one I had installed weeks prior at @CircleKStores. The industry looked very different:
@ionnaofficial wasn't yet named - just an automaker JV most expected to amount to nothing.
→ Now IONNA leads charging driver experience with well over 1,000 ports live.
Almost no vehicle on the road could charge at the then-market max of 350kW.
→ Now there are multiple vehicles that can charge at 400kW+.
Nearly every OEM had announced NACS, but not a single non-@Tesla EV in North America could actually use a Supercharger. There weren't even adapters yet.
→ Now there are native-NACS vehicles from all major OEMs, and non-Tesla NACS is becoming common (Alpitronic leads non-Tesla NACS deployments).
NEVI was the main story, with very little action behind it.
→ Now new deployments are primarily privately funded, as charging becomes a real business and a way to enable car sales.
No one thought @Walmart would build their own charging network.
→ Now Walmart has over 100 sites open with significantly more in motion.
Full circle: the US Circle K Charge sites my team and I built (and future-proofed) in my previous role are being taken over by IONNA and upgraded to HYC400s.
I leave with thousands of ports deployed across 40+ states and 5+ major networks (IONNA, Walmart, Mercedes-Benz High-Power Charging, bp pulse, Applegreen Fast Charge and more), and over 2M charging sessions. I still remember session #1 in North America.
From a hardware perspective, charging reliability is largely a solved problem. I could not be more proud to have played a part in that.
What's next? More to come soon - but don't worry, my passion for the mission hasn't wavered. Charging must always work. ⚡️
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Huge thanks to @TeslaTim2 for sending us some “Within Spec” coffee mugs! Lots of laughs from the staff this morning! 😂
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Million KM Model 3 back at the Drive Protected HQ this morning! Time for his next challenge!
Follow @mylestoamillion to follow the journey!
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So... What do you think, @Drive_Protected?
It’s been 76 days since we gave away this 2019 Model 3 that has 610,000 kms on it. Today it finally heads over to its owner in California. Dusty and I are going to fly down there in a couple weeks and deliver it to the winner.
(FYI, yes it took almost 3 months for this car to clear customs to be exported from Canada to California 😂)
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It’s been 76 days since we gave away this 2019 Model 3 that has 610,000 kms on it. Today it finally heads over to its owner in California. Dusty and I are going to fly down there in a couple weeks and deliver it to the winner.
(FYI, yes it took almost 3 months for this car to clear customs to be exported from Canada to California 😂)
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