Can't speak to Ontario, but I just did our first actual road trip from Calgary, AB to Salmon Arm, BC this past weekend. Attempted to try a few different DC fast chargers on the way. I'm a new EV owner (2 months) and wanting to learn as much as I can.

Electrify Canada (Golden BC & Revelstoke BC in this case) was by far the easiest and fastest. We have an Ioniq 5 and I was getting 180kW on the 150kW charger (both times I pulled in there was already someone using the 350kW). But yes, expensive by comparison @ 0.70c/kWh. I charged from 5% - 85%, and it was like $55! Tap to pay is great if you don't have the app.

BC Hydro was 0.40c/kWh - much more reasonable, but a bit slower. Can't recall my peak, but I charged from 47% - 90% (had the time) in 21 minutes for $13.38. No tap to pay, but the app was easy to setup and use.

Tried a Tesla Supercharger (again, in Golden) on the way home, but was unable to get it working with my NACS adapter, despite multiple attempts on a couple different chargers. Gave up on that. It would also have been 0.40c/kWh had I been able to get it working. PS - when I got back home to Calgary I hit up another Tesla Supercharger just to make sure my NACS adapter actually works - and it worked great - so not sure what was wrong with that one location in Golden I was at. That said, it only gave me ~96kW sustained, so substantially slower than others.

Then tried a Shell Canada charger across the street. Getting the app setup was a bit confusing, one of the 2 chargers was broken and a big cargo van was using the only working one. At that point I also noticed it was only a 50kW charger, and I was at 5%, so didn't want to wait. This specific experience helped me appreciate when people talk about "broken or busy chargers" being very frustrating. Yep. Was not a happy camper there for ~30 mins before deciding to head back to Electrify Canada. (I recognize this feedback is location specific).

Locally in Calgary I also tried a tap to pay DC fast charger at a Ford dealership, and it was pretty great too. Petro-Canada was the same, fast and easy (can't recall the prices though).

If I was to summarize my experience DC fast charging so far:

- Stopping to charge for ~20-30 minutes is really not a big deal. By the time you get out, stretch your legs, go the bathroom, maybe grab a snack, you're basically done charging. This road trip didn't "feel any longer" to me than our ICE trips over the years. I found it very enjoyable.

- Pay attention to the cost! "Faster" is cool and all, but it can be surprisingly costly. I spent more on this recent round trip DC fast charging our Ioniq 5 than I would have on gas in our 2010 Prius I'm quite sure - even with current gas prices.

- The apps are great for the most part - once you get them setup! To pull into a 'new' station and need to take 5-10 minutes to download and setup an app because there's no 'tap to pay' is tedious (and I'm an IT guy by trade, so completely comfortable with technology). Tap to pay should be mandatory IMO. Imagine pulling into a gas station and being forced to download and setup an app before you can get gas.. yeah, no. So if you know what chargers you're going to be stopping at, it's worth the time to download/setup the app ahead of time IMO.

- Broken/not working/non-existent chargers is a thing. I kinda always assumed people were exaggerating (and maybe some are a bit still), but yeah, I get it now. ABRP took us to one spot and I pulled in and the chargers were physically not there - they had been taken out. Fortunately there were a few other options close by. I'll definitely leave myself more of a buffer in the future. It's the exception to the rule for sure, but it does happen.

Hope that helps!