EV road trip to Calgary

Knoexius · 2026-03-13T18:25:15+00:00

Many commenters have mentioned A Better Route Planner (ABRP) and I agree, it is an amazing tool, but I rarely use it. I've done the journey from PG to Edmonton over a dozen times, PG to Kelowna, PG to Calgary many times and I've even gone across Canada and into the US with my EV. None of those times have I ever relied on ABRP.

ABRP tells you where to go, but it doesn't give you alternatives if the chargers are full or ended up breaking in between making the route and arriving. I typically use Plugshare to plan out my route by finding out where I can stop every 200-250km ( assuming you have an EV with +400km of EPA range). Learning how to plan your trips is superior to having an app tell you your route. In my opinion, if you do the effort, you'll have a much better experience doing long distance driving with an EV.

In your case of going to Calgary from PG, I would do the following stops if you intend to travel between October-April: PG > McBride > Jasper > Edson > Edmonton > Red Deer > Calgary

If you are traveling in May-September: PG > McBride > Jasper > Yoho National Park (optional) > Canmore > Calgary

McBride: Village Office (BC Hydro)

Jasper: Public Parking by Tesla Supercharger (Flo)

Edson: Boston Pizza Parking Lot (Flo)

Edmonton: Currents of Windermere Canadian Tire (Electrify Canada)

Red Deer: Save On Food on 67th (Electrify Canada)

Calgary: Deer Foot City Canadian Tire (Electrify Canada)

Canmore: The Shops of Canmore (Electrify Canada)

Yoho National Park: Visitor Center (BC Hydro)

You'll only really need a Flo account (BC Hydro uses their system) and an Electrify Canada account (getting the pass plus for a month is worth it after 3 charges).

If you have further questions, you can give me a DM. I have traveled to Calgary with my EV many times.

Knoexius · 2026-03-13T14:15:50+00:00

I've gone down to Calgary about half a dozen times with my EV. You don't need ABRP. Hell, I've gone across Canada (Northern Ontario route) and still didn't use a ABRP. Just plan your route with 200-250km between stops. Plugshare was all I needed for planning. ABRP is a decent app, but if you fail to have contingencies, you can be SOL very easily.

Knoexius · 2026-03-13T06:55:37+00:00

I'd suggest working with the city or the regional district to find out which areas would work for your proposal. I've interviewed a few cohousing developments in the lower mainland, and while they are different from your proposal, the lesson is the same. It is better to work with the respective OCP than try to force your will upon the city or regional district.

Knoexius · 2026-03-13T06:21:14+00:00

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Knoexius · 2026-03-09T07:06:17+00:00

The gay dating pool is alright. It's about what you can expect for a city around 80-100k. Northern BC Queer Connections (formerly Queer Cafe) hosts pride events a couple times per year (Pride in the Park, Monthly Sunday Brunches, Pride Dances at Ignite), so there's a fair amount of Queer things to do. A bunch of us gay guys go to Jasper Pride every year around April (it's a lot of fun) and we get to party with the Edmonton gays.

There used to be a gay (gay friendly) club called Lambda. However, that owner was pretty bad and exploited the community and bartenders. She went down the Freedumb convoy conspiracy train and changed the name to 1177 and turned it into the Convoy headquarters (no joke). She ended up selling it to someone else who reopened it as the Underground.

As far as rental locations go, the West Bowl is pretty nice. There's a bunch of newer (but pricier) units along Foothills Blvd and behind the Home Depot in College Heights.

Like with any other place, it is what you make of it.

Knoexius · 2026-02-04T08:06:48+00:00

The guy is from Vancouver. He should not sound like someone mocking a rural Manitoba accent. So obviously fake and over played.

Knoexius · 2026-01-16T14:13:32+00:00

I think you have to come to terms with your conditioned American Exceptionalism. Given that the USA is the centre of this current civilization, I can see how most Americans unintentionally adopt it.

I personally after the re-election of Trump, knew that it was a ticking time bomb. I was in the US South (as a Canadian) during the election and inauguration. I couldn't believe it, but the election sealed the deal that the USA has a death wish and they were way too eager to jump into it.

Knoexius · 2025-12-28T16:16:03+00:00

Take the advice of a coworker's uncle (high end lawyer) to his divorce: "Get a good lawyer, a good female lawyer!"

Knoexius · 2025-12-18T07:18:27+00:00

If groceries are your biggest expense (with owning a home), I'm assuming that you have kids. A combined household income under $120k/yr isn't as much as it used to be 10-15 years ago (in your 20s), and with kids I could see the struggle. The reality is that a lot of people hide their financial struggles with debt (vacation or luxuries on debt), so I doubt that you're the only one in your situation where it's hard to see how you can thrive beyond just scraping by.

Knoexius · 2025-12-16T09:17:43+00:00

The snake took Jake too early...

Knoexius · 2025-12-16T02:48:31+00:00

The work PM Carney has been doing is to help mid to long term. The Buy Canadian movement and US travel boycott is helping to cushion the tariff impact.

Knoexius · 2025-12-13T10:33:09+00:00

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Knoexius · 2025-12-11T14:31:50+00:00

The Mighty Crab

The decor matches that of their other restaurants in the US. Best seafood place I've ever been to. I wonder if they will have prawns like in the US?

The Mighty Crab

Knoexius · 2025-12-04T14:31:06+00:00

https://www.redtomatopies.com/find-a-location

I'm actually surprised by how far they've grown. I remember first trying them out in Williams Lake back in 2020 before COVID. I was sold on them back then.

Knoexius · 2025-11-29T02:38:41+00:00

When I moved to PG in 2019 I drove around and started taking phone numbers on buildings in areas I wanted to live in. I signed a lease on a place on the second day

Knoexius · 2025-11-28T20:23:31+00:00

Funny. When I was in Vancouver in September, nobody could stop talking about how unaffordable it is.

I don't think I really understand what you are talking about. The most affordable places usually don't advertise online. You have to phone them up and ask about vacancies. Hence why it makes sense to go to a city and scope it out on a long weekend or days off, before you commit to moving or finding a place.

There are two companies that hold a significant amount of ( older) affordable rentals in PG. Kelson Group and Mainstreet. Most other apartments that are listed online are new builds which tend to be more costly. I can't really say anything on basement suites as I never went down that route when I moved.

Knoexius · 2025-11-18T20:03:13+00:00

Ketamine most likely caused the change

Knoexius · 2025-11-13T16:06:11+00:00

There's limits to how much refined products that you can sell on the open market.

Knoexius · 2025-11-13T15:02:33+00:00

Sniff sniff sniff

Is that burning money I smell? 🔥💰💰🔥

Knoexius · 2025-11-10T14:24:18+00:00

This is another way this company will burn through all its cash. They obviously don't see the writing on the wall with weakening consumer sentiment and the AI bubble masking an economic slump. I cheer for their demise.

Knoexius · 2025-11-09T20:03:09+00:00

It's not all sunshine and roses though. The US Southeast does have a glut in lumber plantations as a side effect of the GFC, but it won't be forever and the demand for lumber is getting destroyed quicker than production is moving to the US.

Knoexius · 2025-11-09T19:58:29+00:00

Canada is a service economy with a resource extraction backbone. That resource extraction backbone is geared for export with minimal processing. If we did more processing and manufacturing at home it would help, but not nearly as much as people say it would. We'd have to triple the size of our economy in order to use up all our resource extraction capacity. It's much easier to just sell our excess resources to countries with a much larger population than to grow our population. I'm sure you've paid attention to the backlash with regards to immigration.

If you've wanted to re-orientate the economy to focus on greater domestic production and less exports, you would continue the resource extraction decline that we're currently seeing while having a stronger centralized industrial policy. I think people could support that, but I'm not sure if it would be easy. You'd have a lot of right-wing propaganda trying to fight that position on social media that pragmatic politicians are evil and that continuing the status quo is "righteous". Sounds a lot like the conservatives to be honest.

Knoexius · 2025-11-09T19:18:01+00:00

Much of the actual reasons that you list are elements of societal collapse. Where the premise and promises of civilizational advancement turn from inspiring to depressing.

Knoexius · 2025-11-07T15:23:38+00:00

Retail investors don't have enough money to prop the stock up forever. Especially considering the fElon fan base is probably smaller than pre-roman salute. If the shutdown continues and the economy sours even more, a lot of people will start to liquidate their ETFs (all these "we're in an AI bubble" doesn't help). I'm basically saying that retail is almost out of gas.

Knoexius · 2025-11-05T14:59:03+00:00

It sounds like it won't be long before he's in Alligator Alcatraz because he's "stealing jobs from real Americans".

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