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Which EVs can do my trip?

Pick one of 18 Canadian routes and a month. Every EV in our catalogue (53 models) is ranked: no stop needed, one stop, tight, or not recommended. Each charging stop comes with a compatible backup.

I'm driving Route in Month or cold snap.

548 km · about −7 °C along the road in January · 55 fast-charging hubs along it

Which EVs make it

53 of 53 comfortably, 0 tight, 0 not recommended.

Hyundai IONIQ 9 Essential RWD

539 km official range · NACS port · Superchargers: yes · Heat pump: yes

Range in January: 408 km; at −7 °C, highway, full battery
Longest stretch: 47 km; Cobourg to Brighton
Charging stops: 1; Fewest stops that work
Time: 6:50; Drive 6:30 + charging 0:20 = 6:50
Charging cost: $24–$35; Estimate · public DC only, not the charge at home

Comfortable. Every stretch between charges leaves about 20% or more of the usable range spare.

The road, stretch by stretch

Comfortable stretchTight stretchLonger than this car can safely goFast charger that fits (55)Charger with another plug or no access (0)

Your stops

NRCan/AFDC data lists stations; it cannot tell us which are broken today. Each backup is a fallback, not an uptime guarantee. Check PlugShare or the network app before you leave.

1
Stop 1: Prescott, ON · ChargePoint · 200 kW (adapter)
km 357 · arrive 12%, leave 57% · about 20 min · $24–$35
- Single port: higher risk
- Adapter needed
Backup: Brockville (Tesla, 8 DC ports, confirmed Jun 18, 2026), km 337.
Montreal
km 548 · arrive with about 10%

The same trip in other months

Estimate notes for this car

At least one stop is on a network not in our price table: a typical $0.45–$0.65/kWh is used.

Full Toronto to Montreal page Hyundai IONIQ 9 Essential RWD specs and price

All 18 routes, January vs July

How many of the 53 EVs make each drive, and the longest stretch with no compatible fast charger for a CCS1 car with Supercharger access (the most common setup in our list). Round trips assume no charging at the destination.

How the estimate works

What we model

Highway range = official NRCan range × 0.90 (steady 100–110 km/h) × the share of range kept at that temperature: 56% at −30 °C, 66% at −20 °C, 76% at −10 °C, 86% at 0 °C, 95% at 10 °C, 100% at 20 °C. Cars with a confirmed heat pump lose a quarter less (for example 75% instead of 66% at −20 °C). An unknown heat pump counts as none.
Temperature is the 1991–2020 ECCC daily mean for the month, averaged over 2–4 weather stations along the road. Cold snaps use a flat −20 °C or −30 °C.
You leave full and keep a 10% reserve, so the first leg can use 90% of range. Each later leg runs from 10% to 80% (70%). A trip is comfortable when every stretch uses at most 80% of that, tight when it works with less margin.
A charger fits when it has your car's plug and access: CCS1 sites need a CCS1 car or a carried adapter, Tesla Superchargers need a Tesla or a car with Supercharger access, "Teslas only" sites count only for Teslas. Restricted and limited-hours sites are never planned.
Stops are the fewest that work, counting the drive off the highway and back. Each stop gets the nearest other compatible hub that is reachable from the previous stop and still reaches the next one.
Charging cost uses the network's price from our public-charging table, plus 8% charging loss. Networks not in that table use a typical $0.45–$0.65/kWh. It leaves out the charge at home before you leave.

Not modelled

Wind, hills and mountain passes, snow on the road, winter tires, speeds above 110 km/h, passes that are colder than the route average, and chargers that are broken or busy. Charge times assume you navigate to the charger so the battery is preconditioned; without it, winter charging is much slower.

EV North estimates (no published source)

The temperature table, the heat-pump factor and the 0.90 highway factor. No highway winter test with a stated temperature and baseline was available to calibrate them.
Average DC power = min(90 % of charger kW, 55 % of the car's peak kW)
Unknown charger power assumed 50 kW; unknown car peak assumed 150 kW
Cold-charging slowdown ×1.10 at 0 °C, ×1.25 at −10 °C, ×1.40 at −20 °C, ×1.60 at −30 °C (with preconditioning)

Sources behind the model

CAA - Winter EV Test Drive (14 vehicles, Canadian conditions) (checked Oct 2026)
ECCC Canadian Climate Normals 1991–2020 (checked Oct 2026)
AAA (2019): 41 % range loss at −6.7 °C with cabin heat, combined city/highway dynamometer test (checked Oct 2026)
Recurrent 2025/26 winter study: 78 % of ideal range at 0 °C, 70 % at −7 °C; heat pumps add about 10 % at 0 °C (checked Oct 2026)
Geotab fleet data: EVs can lose up to 50 % of range at −20 °C (checked Oct 2026)
NAF/Motor El Prix winter test, Jan 2026 (via FIA): 24 EVs, down to −32 °C, average 38 % below WLTP (checked Oct 2026)
NLR / AFDC Alternative Fuel Stations API (Canada data from NRCan) (checked Oct 2026)
Tesla - Supercharging other EVs (North America) (checked Oct 2026)
Tesla Canada Supercharger fee pages, DriveTeslaCanada network reporting, Ivy/Electrify Canada/Petro-Canada pricing pages (checked Jul 2026)

Data sources

Fast chargers: NLR / AFDC Alternative Fuel Stations API (Canada data from NRCan), public DC fast sites within 5 km of each route. Snapshot Oct 16, 2026. It lists stations; it cannot say which are working today.
Temperatures: ECCC Canadian Climate Normals 1991–2020, checked Oct 16, 2026.
Charging prices: Tesla Canada Supercharger fee pages, DriveTeslaCanada network reporting, Ivy/Electrify Canada/Petro-Canada pricing pages, checked Jul 30, 2026. Vehicle range, battery and plug data come from each car's page in our catalogue.