Gas was sitting at $1.85 CAD per liter in Saskatchewan when this video was filmed, and FrozenTesla wanted to know exactly how much cheaper a Tesla Model 3 could do the same drive. The route was a 600 km round trip between Warman and Regina, with two Supercharger stops along the way. The short answer: $36.49 CAD all in, including topping the battery back to its starting charge level at home using a 16-cent-per-kWh overnight rate. A comparable Honda Civic would have cost roughly $86 CAD. A midsize SUV like an Audi Q5 lands near $120 CAD, and a half-ton pickup pushes past $168 CAD. The extra time penalty for the two Supercharger stops combined came to about 21 minutes over a gas vehicle. Whether that trade is worth it depends entirely on whether you would have stopped anyway.
The Saskatchewan prairies make for a punishing efficiency test. Wind came from the west for the entire return leg, gusting strongly enough to blow road signs into ditches and force an orange weather advisory. The car averaged 229 Wh/km over the full trip, well above the Tesla-rated 137 Wh/km for the Model 3, with the wind alone accounting for roughly 11% additional consumption on the second leg. What makes this video genuinely useful beyond the headline number is the granular breakdown: the hotel in Regina had a destination charger that topped the battery from 31% to 82% at no cost overnight, which contributed meaningfully to keeping the trip under $25 USD in on-road Supercharging. That detail matters to anyone planning a multi-day EV trip and wondering whether hotel charging is worth factoring in. Tesla's own trip planner routed the car accurately throughout, predicting arrival states of charge within one percentage point on most legs despite the unusual conditions.
The Supercharger stops themselves were straightforward but instructive in their edge cases. Full Self-Driving on version 14.3.2 navigated most of the highway confidently, though it briefly tried to park at a third-party charger instead of the adjacent Supercharger stalls. Charging in heavy rain was uneventful. On the outbound leg, the car arrived at Davidson at 45% state of charge and charged to 73% in 15 minutes at a peak of around 141 kW, costing $11.49 CAD. On the return, arriving at 20%, it took 16 minutes to reach 61%, peaking near 198 kW, at a cost of $16.72 CAD. The efficiency drop on the return trip pushed what might have been a $20 total into $28 CAD in Supercharging, with the overnight hotel charging covering the rest. Home charging to restore the battery to 85% added $8.25 CAD at the end.
Bottom line: This is one of the more honest EV road trip breakdowns you will find because the conditions were genuinely bad, the math is shown step by step, and the creator does not pretend the gas vehicle is slower by more than it actually is. The 21-minute time premium is real but modest, and the savings over a midsize SUV or truck are substantial. If you take more than a handful of road trips per year and have access to hotel or home charging, the economics of EV road tripping are no longer a debatable point. They are just math.