Route between Stow, MA and Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Odometer: 1840 miles
On Monday, we’re taking Lightning on our first international road trip from Stow, Massachusetts to Montreal, Quebec, where I’m dropping my son to travel to Japan. According to evtripplanner.com, this will be a roughly 312 mile trip each way. Even with Lightning’s 90kWh battery, the trip will require at least one recharging stop, which we’ve currently planned for West Lebanon, New Hampshire.
Unlike our prior road trip to Maine, this route really epitomizes Elon Musk’s vision for what an electric car trip should be like. While we have the luxury of a nearly 300 mile range with Lightning, we have no fewer than 3 superchargers along our route AND we have a supercharger available in Montreal when we get there. No one driving a Tesla would have any range anxiety on this route. In fact, as you can see from the circles on the map to the right, any electric car with 100 miles of range would handily make the trip using just Superchargers. And just like in a gasoline car, one could easily do this trip with no planning whatsoever; just point the car in the direction you want to go, and follow the in-car Navigation directions to Superchargers when the planning software tells you to.
One other convenient aspect is that Montreal itself is very EV-friendly. The hotel where we are staying has free parking for electric vehicles, and Montreal boasts a 12-stall Supercharger station and another 2 stalls at one of Canada’s largest Tesla dealerships. For those not in Teslas, Montreal also has an array of J1772 charging stations as shown in the screenshot below. 
We’re charging the battery to 95% capacity today off our solar panels which should give us about 275 miles of range. We will be climbing a bit into the mountains, so we will likely see less than that, but our Supercharger top-up in West Lebanon will easily get us to Montreal with between 50-100 miles of range left. Should we encounter rain or expend too much energy in the mountains, we can always top up again in Burlington, Vermont.
EVtripplanner.com estimates we’ll be driving about 5 hours each way, plus about 40 minutes of charging time, during which we’ll probably get a bite to eat in West Lebanon. I’ll be running my trip logger at home during the trip to record what our actual mileage and charging numbers turn out to be. Our current trip plan estimates we’ll consume about 103 kWh each way. Because our Supercharger use is free, our only vehicle costs for this entire 630 mile trip will be about $5 in tolls to use the Everett Turnpike in New Hampshire.
I’ll update the blog with tweets and photos as we drive up on Monday and back on Tuesday. This should be a fun trip.