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My longest-ever road trip in an electric vehicle unfolded over three days with my 14-year-old daughter in early August, when we whittled down the 1,830-kilometre journey to Nova Scotia from Toronto with a pleasant mix of conversation topics. She mostly strategized about how to get tickets to next year’s Taylor Swift concerts in Canada; I enthralled her with EV charging strategies and battery efficiency stats. At the end of the journey, when we met my partner and puppy (who flew to Halifax),...

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When I ordered my Hyundai Ioniq 5, in late 2021, I was warned it would take about eight months to get my electric vehicle, given the high demand and disrupted supply-chain networks. I was delighted when it took a mere four months. Turns out, I was lucky. Today, my local Hyundai dealership in Toronto isn’t even taking orders for EVs, because wait times have stretched beyond two years. Models have disappeared from the showroom. No wonder I instinctively acknowledge every other Ioniq 5 owner I...