Only 6.6 kW; reached 61% by 11am checkout
“I got to a hotel at 11pm at 15% in my R1T and the 32A/208V unit really did only give me about 6.6 kW. By 11am checkout I was at 61%, so my next leg was over 100 miles shorter than I'd planned.”
Nozzle stuck ~20 hrs; paid for an extra night
“I got stuck at an LA hotel on a Noodoe unit, paid through it, and the nozzle never released. Their support said to email, nobody ever replied, and nobody called back the next morning. The hotel's engineer and manager couldn't get it off either. Staff finally forced it out about 20 hours later and I had to pay for another night.”
$15 preauth cap gave only ~1.5 hrs; couldn't fill overnight
“The Hilton Garden Inn I used in Colorado Springs had a $3 start fee plus a $15 preauth, and both sessions stopped right at $15 of charging. It worked out to around $0.30/kWh, which is fine, but that cap was only about 1.5 hours of charging before idle fees started.”
Cable stayed locked ~2.5 hrs; support couldn't help
“Mine was an EVCS unit at a hotel, the charge never started and the handle stayed locked on my Bolt. Support could only see that it was plugged in and said nobody could come out. Took about 2.5 hours to get free, and I had meetings the next morning.”
Cable locked 4-5 hrs; freed by pushing down while pulling
“The cable stayed locked for 4-5 hours, and the emergency pull cable did nothing. Rivian roadside said they couldn't do anything, and FPL said they saw no active session. What finally worked was pushing down hard on the charger while pulling the cable.”
ChargePoint units quit after ~10 sec at two hotels
“On our first road trip, the ChargePoint units at two different hotels would start and then quit about 10 seconds later with "Check the power source" on the car.”
L1 reached 80% in about 9 hours overnight
“I plugged in at a Home 2 Suites around 6pm and it was at 80% by about 3:45am, so roughly 9 hours.”
Shared circuit gave ~6 kW; not done until after breakfast
“I plugged the Model 3 in for 100% overnight, but it was sharing power with other cars and I only got about 6 kW total. It wasn't finished until after breakfast.”
Hotel chargers capped at 12A, only a trickle
“On a Vegas trip in my Model Y the hotel destination chargers wouldn't go above 12A, so it was only a trickle.”
Shared chargers crawled ~1 kW; used CCS next morning
“The hotel in Edmundston had 6 chargers and mine was crawling at maybe 1 kW, so it was basically pointless. I ended up finding a CCS charger the next morning just to get to Quebec.”
Hotel chargers slow at 9-10 kW; charged past midnight
“I rolled into a hotel after a long winter day and only found out the overnight chargers were slow (like 9-10 kW) after I'd already waited an hour for a shared 150 kW unit and charged past midnight.”
Took ~10 hrs overnight; fine since not arriving empty
“My EV6 stayed at a hotel with 1 CCS and 2 NACS plugs, and it took about 10 hours to charge. That was fine overnight because I wasn't arriving near empty.”
Free slow ChargePoint L2s worked as overnight top-off
“The overnight hotel L2s were a few ChargePoint units, and a lot of them were free. They were slow, but I never needed a full fill because I'd already done about 90 minutes of DC stops that day.”
Hotel chargers under repair; Loop charger failed too
“In Blythe the hotel chargers were under repair, so I tried the Loop charger instead and that failed too. Support just went to voicemail and called back later saying technicians were working on it.”
Hotel Tesla charger showed "charging fault / book service"
“On a short trip in my Polestar the hotel's Tesla charger just showed "charging fault / book service," so I'd want a fast charger nearby either way.”