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Kind of a big annoyance if your hotel does not have chargers though. Especially if you already booked it.
by randyrand 5y ago
Kind of a big annoyance if your hotel does not have chargers though. Especially if you already booked it.
- reustle 5y agoJust checked. At least Booking has a "ev charging station" filter when searching for places to stay.
- DarmokJalad1701 5y agoI just use Tesla's destination charger map and that usually works. And in many cases, at least in colder parts of the country the hotel might have access to engine block heater outlets. These are good enough to trickle charge overnight and save some time in the morning.
- tcas 5y agoUnfortunately I've that you can't rely on the chargers being available at most hotels. In my experience they're frequently either ICE-ed (the charging spot is taken by a non-EV car), or there's already another car charging.
- SavantIdiot 5y agoThere is one problem coming: people fighting over chargers. I was in a Target parking lot with two people fighting over who got to the charger first. Fortunately the mall 5 miles away has a Tesla outlet and a dozen underground charging slots.
- quantified 5y agoAt some point, there probably will be some kind of competition until the infrastructure catches up.
- iso1210 5y agoWe had that last month in the UK with people fighting over gas. https://metro.co.uk/2021/09/29/more-petrol-fights-break-out-and-men-are-filmed-filling-bin-bag-with-fuel-15335120/ https://metro.co.uk/2021/09/29/more-petrol-fights-break-out-... https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/fights-petrol-stations-london-fuel-crisis-b957619.html https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/fights-petrol-station... In the US, people constantly pull out a gun at fast food outlets because they've got the wrong type of cheese on their waffle, or because burger king don't take discover, or some nonsense. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/waffle-house-employee-pulls-gun-on-a-customer-during-a-dispute-over-eggs-according-to-atlanta-police-reports/ar-AAPB3he https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/waffle-house-employee-p... So yes it's inevitable
- ThunderSizzle 5y agoI don't think you understand the word "constantly". You make it sound like the US fast food scene is a warzone over a single article that is newsworthy because it isn't _that_ common.
- cannaceo 5y agoHasn’t been an issue for me in years now that supercharging is much faster but it’s still an inconvenience to stop for 20-30 minutes.
- theshrike79 5y agoThey'll wise up to it when people start requesting it. I'll even pay a premium for a 100% guaranteed reserved charging spot at a hotel. This way I can just gun it and arrive at 1% charge, plug in, sleep, have breakfast and be on my way with a full battery again.
- randunel 5y agoSmall hotel owner here. There is no grid capacity near our airport, we actually have a restriction of 15kW limit / building in the area, and we ended up powering each floor from a different building (my family owns the neighbouring houses). We had gov't grants available to build charging stations, and couldn't get them because of the power grid situation.
- theshrike79 5y agoThat's a singularly shitty power grid right there :) Charging overnight even at 2-3kW is plenty for most people, that's usually enough to get you a good 100-200km away from the hotel and to a fast charger (or your next destination).