Hi all, ordered MYRWD in Brisbane on Friday and spent the night at Marriott hotel. I asked concierge if the had charging infrastructure and was tol I need to bring my one 240v lead. i checked and overnight on that type of charger will only put about 30% in. So I tried searching for hotels with fast chargers and found lots of results but they were all booking sites and had no specific details on chargers. Basically if I was staying overnight i wouldn’t get enough charge to get me home from Marriott. I’d have to stop again and top up,
is there a list of hotels with charging infrastructure in hotels etc? I can’t find one.
There are three levels of charging systems. I can't remember of Australia has 120V power, but I'll assume so.
Level 1 is 120VAC and can take 48 hours for a really empty battery
Level 2 is 240VAC and can take from about 6 hours to more, depends on the capacity of the charger and they vary.
Level 3 is usually 300+V DC sharging and is commonly known as DC fast chargers. It chargers a battery in about 30 minutes to an hour.
DC Fast chargers are best placed at locations near a lot of traffic and located in free parking and easy access areas with access to food and bathrooms. They are mainly used for long distance travelling.
Level 2 charger is what many people have at home and there are probably dozens of them near wherever you are. They are good for locations where you spend and hour of more, like restaurants, theaters, or hotels.
Level 1 charging is easy at home and is also great for airports, where you will be leaving your car for a few days.
A fast charger at a hotel is not the best placement. You plug the car in and then keep it blocked overnight. That makes everyone who wants to use it mad. That's why a L2 charger is much better at a hotel.
Now, there may be DC Fast chargers, aka Superchargers located neat a hotel, only because road hotels are located next to food as well.
Some hotels may have L2 chargers, some will actually publish them as amenities, but they are hard to find and at least in the US, Plugshare will chow them. It's just hard to associate a hotel with a charger.
And I've had a couple of hotel where I found and outside socket and with hotel permission, I just plugged in using the Tesla Mobile Connector. 50 miles overnight helped many times. But at more than one, I was there for a week and even with short local trips, I was fully charged by the end of the week.