5000 miles round trip CA to TX - data and observations

[Speedr]

@GmP, I didn't see you mention any destination charging at your hotels you stayed at. Did you just not mention it, or was it a choice?

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[GmP]

@GmP, I didn't see you mention any destination charging at your hotels you stayed at. Did you just not mention it, or was it a choice?

I did not use destination chargers. Before the trip I thought about it, but I had decided to use “low cost” motels for the overnight stays (think Motel6, America Best Value Inn) and more or less assumed that type of motel would not have them. So during the trip I did not make it an amenity that factored in my decision making.

I never really looked into the details. It are L2 chargers, right? Are they free or still charge per kWh? What would I gain by using them, would it justify to seelct a maybe more expensive motel/hotel?

 

[Speedr]

I did not use destination chargers. Before the trip I thought about it, but I had decided to use “low cost” motels for the overnight stays (think Motel6, America Best Value Inn) and more or less assumed that type of motel would not have them. So during the trip I did not make it an amenity that factored in my decision making.

I never really looked into the details. It are L2 chargers, right? Are they free or still charge per kWh? What would I gain by using them, would it justify to seelct a maybe more expensive motel/hotel?

The biggest thing they provide is time. You eliminate 1 Supercharger stop by charging overnight at the hotel. Also, you can charge up completely vs. 80% since you don't care how long it takes (although I'm still paranoid, so only go to 97% lol). Most are free, but some do charge, but they're almost always less than the Supercharging cost. There are a lot of "cheap" hotels that have them, with Tru by Hilton being a new one that is relatively cheap, new, clean, and most seem to have the chargers. You can find a lot of them on Tesla's Find Us map as well:

https://www.tesla.com/findus?bounds...destination_chargers,all_destination_chargers

 

[doggod]

in hotel we stayed in Santa Barbara they wanted $0.80 a kilowatt for destination charger. so we used free supercharging

 

[TexasRaider]

in hotel we stayed in Santa Barbara they wanted $0.80 a kilowatt for destination charger. so we used free supercharging

I’ve been seeing more and more of this.
Hotels using the chargers as income streams.

 

[Speedr]

I always call the hotels directly (local phone number) and ask how many EV chargers they have, if they're working, and if they charge for them. I'm usually very flexible on where I stop on a road trip (i.e. after "driving" for 7 1/2 hours, 8 hours, 8 1/2 hours, etc.), so I just look along the route and find which hotel has more than 1 charger (usually shoot for 3 or 4) and that are free. At least on the eastern seaboard, and even more inland, it hasn't been a problem to find that.

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