henderrj
Active Member
No. My reasons are at What app do you use to find hotels with charging?.
I haven't had time for many EV road trips but so far , I've not sought one out when I've had an EV w/me. Since the hotel never said it had any, they met my expectations.
And, there’s a report at Finding hotel/motels with ev charging stations of an insane $10 per hour for level 2 charging.
CT4000: 30A Dual Port Level 2 EV Charger | ChargePoint is typical for public and workplace L2 (my work has dozens of these). They're only 30 amp max and at 208 volts (common for US commercial power), the best you get out of them is 30 amps * 208 volts = 6240 watts = 6.24 kW. If they are on a 240 volt feed, you'd get 7200 watts = 7.2 kW. So, for each hour, 7.2 kWh at best comes out of each plug, costing you $10. That's really horrible pricing for 7.2 kWh.
We've been road tripping our Tesla for seven years. Destination chargers have been available for most of that time, we've stopped at dozens of motels that have them, have never once been charged a dime to use them. Yes, if you find some other brand of charger, you'll probably pay for it. Although we've gotten that for free too. But, that's actually rare to find. Tesla destination chargers are pretty common, the others are not.
We look for destination chargers via the map on the in vehicle screen, and then decide if it's a good hotel or not. We do occasionally run into places where there are no destination or other chargers available. But most of the time we can use the destination chargers and they have always, 100% of the time, been free. Well, included with the cost of the room.