Tesla Opened Two Northern British Columbia Superchargers in Two Days. The Corridor Still Has a Gap.

Tesla activated two Supercharger stations in northern British Columbia on consecutive days this week, both on Highway 16 — the road British Columbians call the Yellowhead, running from Prince George to the Pacific at Prince Rupert.

Vanderhoof came first, on Monday 21 September: four V4 stalls at the Four Rivers Co-op food store on East Stewart Street, about 100 km west of Prince George. Terrace followed on Tuesday afternoon with eight V4 stalls at the Skeena Mall on Lakelse Avenue, a site where construction started in February 2026.

What opened

Both price identically: CAD $0.24/kWh for Tesla drivers and CAD $0.32/kWh for everyone else — a third more for non-Tesla cars, a gap Tesla applies in most markets where it has opened the network to other brands.

The corridor is not finished

The target is a continuous Supercharger route from Prince George to Prince Rupert, roughly 720 km. Two stations do not close it. A station at Prince Rupert is still under construction, and the stretch between Vanderhoof and Terrace remains the longest unserved segment on the route — enough that Drive Tesla Canada describes it as difficult to cover on a single charge in deep winter, when cold cuts usable range and there is no fallback within reach.

That is the part worth noting for anyone who drives long distances in a cold climate. A corridor is only as good as its largest gap, and a route that looks complete on a map can still strand a car between two stations in January.

Why this reads familiar in Europe

Northern British Columbia is not a European market, but the pattern is the one Tesla has been running across Scandinavia for a decade: pick a single highway, fill it station by station, and accept low utilisation for years because the alternative is a region where the car is unusable. The same logic put Superchargers along the E6 through Arctic Norway and across northern Sweden and Finland, and it is why Tesla's network is still the default for long trips in those countries.

The pricing structure travels too. The roughly one-third premium for non-Tesla drivers seen at Vanderhoof and Terrace is the same mechanism Tesla uses at European sites open to other brands, where a membership subscription closes part of the gap.

These two openings follow the first Tesla Megachargers in Canada, at RR Plett in British Columbia — a separate build for the Semi rather than for cars, but a sign of how much Tesla infrastructure spending the province is absorbing this year.

Tesla did not announce either station in advance, which is normal: Supercharger sites go live when they energise, and appear in the car's navigation the same day.