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Kind of a big annoyance if your hotel does not have chargers though. Especially if you already booked it.

They'll wise up to it when people start requesting it.

I'll even pay a premium for a 100% guaranteed reserved charging spot at a hotel. This way I can just gun it and arrive at 1% charge, plug in, sleep, have breakfast and be on my way with a full battery again.

Small hotel owner here. There is no grid capacity near our airport, we actually have a restriction of 15kW limit / building in the area, and we ended up powering each floor from a different building (my family owns the neighbouring houses).

We had gov't grants available to build charging stations, and couldn't get them because of the power grid situation.

That's a singularly shitty power grid right there :)

Charging overnight even at 2-3kW is plenty for most people, that's usually enough to get you a good 100-200km away from the hotel and to a fast charger (or your next destination).

Just checked. At least Booking has a "ev charging station" filter when searching for places to stay.

I just use Tesla's destination charger map and that usually works. And in many cases, at least in colder parts of the country the hotel might have access to engine block heater outlets. These are good enough to trickle charge overnight and save some time in the morning.

Unfortunately I've that you can't rely on the chargers being available at most hotels. In my experience they're frequently either ICE-ed (the charging spot is taken by a non-EV car), or there's already another car charging.

There is one problem coming: people fighting over chargers. I was in a Target parking lot with two people fighting over who got to the charger first. Fortunately the mall 5 miles away has a Tesla outlet and a dozen underground charging slots.

We had that last month in the UK with people fighting over gas.

https://metro.co.uk/2021/09/29/more-petrol-fights-break-out-...

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/fights-petrol-station...

In the US, people constantly pull out a gun at fast food outlets because they've got the wrong type of cheese on their waffle, or because burger king don't take discover, or some nonsense.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/waffle-house-employee-p...

So yes it's inevitable

I don't think you understand the word "constantly". You make it sound like the US fast food scene is a warzone over a single article that is newsworthy because it isn't _that_ common.

At some point, there probably will be some kind of competition until the infrastructure catches up.

Hasn’t been an issue for me in years now that supercharging is much faster but it’s still an inconvenience to stop for 20-30 minutes.

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