The Globe and Mail reports in its Saturday edition that since buying his 2018 Chevy Bolt five years ago, Paul LaFlamme has been taking his wife and daughter on regular road trips across Canada and the United States. In a Globe special, Krystyna Lagowski writes that two years ago, they drove from Scarborough, Ont., through the Prairies, to Whistler, B.C. The Bolt has a 64-kilowatt-hour battery rated to travel 416 kilometres on a single charge, so Mr. LaFlamme usually starts with a full charge and drives 300 kilometres to his first stop. The 9,900-kilometre round trip to Whistler took 4-1/2 days each way and cost $190 in electricity. He estimates the same trip would cost $900 total with a comparable gas-powered car. Mr. LaFlamme plans his stops with the help of the PlugShare app. "I like to pick my stations based on what restaurants are nearby and how well [the chargers] work," he said. Mr. LaFlamme also took advantage of a program by Petro-Canada and Royal Bank of Canada to get $400 worth of charging for free. The partnership gives drivers 100 per cent off their EV charges, up to a maximum of $100, when they charge at participating PetroCan EV stations and pay with an RBC debit or credit card linked to Petro-Points.