I live in Ames and I should be able to help you out. I have a NEMA 14-50 outlet installed at my house (just south of town) in anticipation of my Model S delivery next week. My office would probably be a better option. I should have a NEMA 14-50 outlet installed there in the next couple of weeks, and it is adjacent to the Hilton Garden Inn in town. You could stay there and charge at my office overnight.
Great to hear there is a Tesla owner in Ames, IA.
I just completed the Delivery Button steps and they say delivery March 4 – March 18[SUP]th[/SUP]. (Can’t believe that will really happen but haven’t spoken to the delivery team yet.)
We are in Bella Vista, AR, 200 miles south of Kansas City, and travel 3 or 4 times a year to Minneapolis area and then into Wisconsin about a 100 miles to visit a second child. Making K.C. is not problem but need charging there. We normally sleep over in Des Moines and expect that we could do a 15 hour public charging near the hotel and be set to make it to Minneapolis for supercharging, or a 2 day 110 volt charging at son’s home, before visiting daughter in Wisconsin.
In July we will have a problem as we are planning a 60 year class reunion near Iron Mountain, MI (Upper Peninsula) and haven’t found any public charging in that neck of the woods.
We plan to install the HPWC mainly to help others who may be passing through and hope others might reciprocate as we travel through their locations. Especially Kansas City and Des Moines.
Until we have many more superchargers has as anyone given any thought to a “reciprocator” group?
Model S Res. #13,967 (AR), non-perf, 85KWh, Pearl White, Black Leather, Piano Black, 19", Pano roof, Tech, Air Suspen, twin chargers