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Sep 2, 2026
Tom GanHOST
Yeah, but we are seeing more and more charges, obviously, on the streets, on telegraph poles and charges in public areas.
Tom GanHOST
Like, you know, compare PlugShare to what it was five years ago.
Tom GanHOST
Like, we are leaps and bounds ahead.
Tom GanHOST
So we are getting there.
James WhittinghamHOST
And there was a charger halfway, which she might have used because it was a high wind situation.
James WhittinghamHOST
And One of them was broken, and I looked at it on Twitter, and I found that it was broken possibly since last November, or at least since April, according to the archives of PlugShare, which is an app you use to check out whether chargers are working, how they are, and all that.
James WhittinghamHOST
It's also very expensive, and I pointed that out on Twitter when I asked the Riverbend Co-op, who I did a commercial for once, a joking commercial, because I was so happy that they were supporting charging in that very important spot in our province.
James WhittinghamHOST
And they said that the power company has high demand charges.
James WhittinghamHOST
So one was working, but I was keeping an eye on it because you can keep an eye on whether they're used or not through various apps.
James WhittinghamHOST
Right.
James WhittinghamHOST
PlugShare does it, and the Flow app, which is the brand of the charger, I have both those apps, and I could see that it was getting used, and I didn't want it to be used when they got there.
James WhittinghamHOST
I wanted everything to be perfect.
Amelia PearsonGUEST
And there are some great apps that kind of help support that.
Amelia PearsonGUEST
So things like PlugShare, ChargyFox, they basically will tell you whether there's a charger that's like broken down.
Amelia PearsonGUEST
and which ones are in use as well.
Amelia PearsonGUEST
And also just giving yourself a little bit of buffer room.
LizHOST
So we're looking at a better route planner.
LizHOST
And then I look up the charger on PlugShare to see if there's any recent reviews because PlugShare will show you, oh, someone just charged an hour ago or someone charged two days ago.
LizHOST
And they said, oh, the one on the left was being finicky, but the one in the middle worked or whatever it is.
LizHOST
So that's helpful.
LizHOST
So like you got to check the route planning app.
LizHOST
Double check for any new info on PlugShare.
LizHOST
We also punch it into the navigation on the car because the car and the route planner will do their own calculation of how many miles it thinks you're going to have when you get there.
LizHOST
So just nice to double check and make sure we're going to be good.
Benjamin HuntingHOST
What are my Tesla options? I look online.
Benjamin HuntingHOST
I'm using PlugShare, which is a really good app that tells you where various plugs are.
Benjamin HuntingHOST
And there's
Sami Haj-AssaadHOST
like reviews, there's photos.
Sami Haj-AssaadHOST
They're really good.
Sami Haj-AssaadHOST
I like PlugShare quite a bit.
Benjamin HuntingHOST
It says there's an underground.
Benjamin HuntingHOST
It's not up
Sean ThomasGUEST
But I would encourage folks to do the research.
Sean ThomasGUEST
There's an app called PlugShare, and you can see the little dots all over Alberta and all over North America where there is charging infrastructure.
Sean ThomasGUEST
And you can see where there's charging infrastructure lacking.
Sean ThomasGUEST
If that's places that you're regularly going, a plug-in hybrid would probably be a better choice.