Topic: 2019 Jaguar I-Pace in a Canadian Winter

[AutoTrader.ca]

2,200 km in Northern Ontario with Jaguar’s first EV.
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[dirtyjeffer]

you need to fix the link...the data in the URL link is incorrect, which is causing a 404 error.

use this one:  https://www.autotrader.ca/newsfeatures/20190402/2019-jaguar-i-pace-in-a-canadian-winter/

[Gurgie]

Too much range anxiety for me... great review though    Hadn't watched one of Justin's videos in a long while, so I appreciated the work put into it.

[quadzilla]

Holy crap. Spent 3 hours just charging the car for a drive that is only around 400 kms. Also so many issues trying to get the car charged.  No thanks.

I regularly experienced public chargers that were broken, suffering from fault codes, or that (for reasons unknown) took multiple attempts to switch on – sometimes requiring as much as 30 minutes of fiddling or chatting with a tech-support agent to remedy.

On two occasions, I had to dig my way into charging stations that were partially buried in snowbanks. One of these was just 40 feet from a nicely maintained gas station.

One another occasion, a Level 3 fast charger station I’d planned on using was occupied by another EV, who didn’t return to unplug their car in the 90 minutes I waited for them. In this particular situation (and luckily), there was a Level 2 charger nearby, so I used that instead.

Level 2 chargers are much slower than Level 3 chargers, so this situation could easily add several hours to a trip. Ditto a broken charger.

[Ex-airbalancer]

Holy crap. Spent 3 hours just charging the car for a drive that is only around 400 kms. Also so many issues trying to get the car charged.  No thanks.

I regularly experienced public chargers that were broken, suffering from fault codes, or that (for reasons unknown) took multiple attempts to switch on – sometimes requiring as much as 30 minutes of fiddling or chatting with a tech-support agent to remedy.

On two occasions, I had to dig my way into charging stations that were partially buried in snowbanks. One of these was just 40 feet from a nicely maintained gas station.

One another occasion, a Level 3 fast charger station I’d planned on using was occupied by another EV, who didn’t return to unplug their car in the 90 minutes I waited for them. In this particular situation (and luckily), there was a Level 2 charger nearby, so I used that instead.

Level 2 chargers are much slower than Level 3 chargers, so this situation could easily add several hours to a trip. Ditto a broken charger.

It would only leave me with about 6 km on a round trip to Toronto airport but does not included anytime sitting in the airport cellphone parking lot waiting to pick someone up 

[johngenx]

Charging issues outside of your home urban area are right now one the real limiting factors to transitioning from ICE to EV ownership.

I think the PHEV hybrid models are a solid stop-gap, and offer dramatic drops in fuel consumption without any range issues.

[Guy]

Holy crap. Spent 3 hours just charging the car for a drive that is only around 400 kms. Also so many issues trying to get the car charged.  No thanks.

I regularly experienced public chargers that were broken, suffering from fault codes, or that (for reasons unknown) took multiple attempts to switch on – sometimes requiring as much as 30 minutes of fiddling or chatting with a tech-support agent to remedy.

On two occasions, I had to dig my way into charging stations that were partially buried in snowbanks. One of these was just 40 feet from a nicely maintained gas station.

One another occasion, a Level 3 fast charger station I’d planned on using was occupied by another EV, who didn’t return to unplug their car in the 90 minutes I waited for them. In this particular situation (and luckily), there was a Level 2 charger nearby, so I used that instead.

Level 2 chargers are much slower than Level 3 chargers, so this situation could easily add several hours to a trip. Ditto a broken charger.

Connectivity issues to level 3 chargers are reported frequently on I-Pace forums, along with a lot of other issues.