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What I want as a Tesla owner, is more non-supercharger charging. My biggest inconvenience is to travel, and stay at a hotel without charging, then I have to dri

What I want as a Tesla owner, is more non-supercharger charging. My biggest inconvenience is to travel, and stay at a hotel without charging, then I have to drive out of my way every few days find a supercharger, sit and wait while it charges then drive back. If hotels (which already have electricity) could install a few 20A-30A chargers that I could use overnight, it would make traveling with a Tesla significantly easier.

InTheArena 5y ago
This. Destination chargers are highly underrated.
pedrocr 5y ago
I've started inquiring about this on all hotel stays even if I know I probably don't strictly need it. It at least gives the signal that this is something I value. In Europe with 230V if places just install normal outlets it's already a big benefit. It's easy to get 30 to 50% charge overnight from those. With 110V that's more limited and a proper slow charger may be needed.
- Handytinge 5y ago
  Oh I've never understood this correctly. My country has 240v/10a power points as standard. Do Americans charge at less than half the speed of this? This explains the constent complaints about "lines at superchargers", an issue I've never encountered.
  - pedrocr 5y ago
    In the US houses are supplied with 240V split phase. So most outlets are 120V from one of the two parts of the same phase. There are some outlets (e.g., for a drier) that use the whole 240V and with those getting high amps is also easy because US homes also usually have higher total power supplied than in Europe and they have standardized plugs that mean higher amps are available (without going to the industrial plugs we use in Europe). But if all you have is a pre-existing 120V outlet then it's very slow. So in more cases they need to do an upgrade but when they do the result is usually pretty good.

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What I want as a Tesla owner, is more non-supercharger charging. My biggest inconvenience is to travel, and stay at a hotel without charging, then I have to dri

by sputknick 5y ago

InTheArena 5y ago
This. Destination chargers are highly underrated.
pedrocr 5y ago
I've started inquiring about this on all hotel stays even if I know I probably don't strictly need it. It at least gives the signal that this is something I value. In Europe with 230V if places just install normal outlets it's already a big benefit. It's easy to get 30 to 50% charge overnight from those. With 110V that's more limited and a proper slow charger may be needed.
- Handytinge 5y ago
  Oh I've never understood this correctly. My country has 240v/10a power points as standard. Do Americans charge at less than half the speed of this? This explains the constent complaints about "lines at superchargers", an issue I've never encountered.
  - pedrocr 5y ago
    In the US houses are supplied with 240V split phase. So most outlets are 120V from one of the two parts of the same phase. There are some outlets (e.g., for a drier) that use the whole 240V and with those getting high amps is also easy because US homes also usually have higher total power supplied than in Europe and they have standardized plugs that mean higher amps are available (without going to the industrial plugs we use in Europe). But if all you have is a pre-existing 120V outlet then it's very slow. So in more cases they need to do an upgrade but when they do the result is usually pretty good.