Road Trip Plug In Options

I have Plugshare, Recargo, Blink, and Chargepoint on my iPhone 5. Between them, I have all or most of the charging points covered. Google also has an EVSE map, but I've found that it's not comprehensive.

 

I have both Chargepoint and Blink network cards. I seldom have the opportunity to use the Chargepoint one, most of the public chargers in my area are Blink network.

 

Just about any motel has electrical plugs out side for winter frost plug heaters for there customers to plug in for the night. Just ask when you check in, usually these are free. Have a great trip! I would not bother during the day, I was in way to much of a hurry to get home. Just me.

 

At the motel you can park so that you can see your car as it is charging and I use an extension cord put it through two different windows then rolled up within an inch, so that most of the charging cable is in the car just two feet out to the plug in on the car.

Your right about traveling slower, but I kind of look at this as kind of a business trip, get it and get it home but is just me!

 

Not unless they want to break your windows, because one end of each cord is in your car. You would have just about two feet out to were you plug in to the car and the extension cord is out the other window to the motel plug in may be 10 feet or so. I would plug in after I ckeck in, and un plug just before going to bed. Nothing is perfect but they would have to make a lot of noise to take things.

 

Yea! while eating a big breakfast.

 

The window air conditioner in your room may use this plug

If you made an extension cord with this end:

It may let you use the plug closest to your car. Here is a premade sample:

PowerFig PF52012E300 Extension Power Cord NEMA 5-20 Plug to NEMA 5-15/20 Connector 25 Feet 20a/125v 12/3 SJT - Our Item #: 7863, Category: 125V Straight Blade : StayOnline

 

http://webarchive.teslamotors.com/display_data/info_sheet_uc.pdf is pricey.

 

No, but the plugs for most motel room A/C units are the strongest (fastest) receptacles in a motel room, but oddly wired.

It would be nice if every motel had a charger, but every motel has AC receptacles.

 

Maybe they do in areas where it actually gets significantly below freezing during the winter. Having been raised in Texas and transplanted to California, I have only second-hand knowledge about engine block heaters.

 

Actually, that is true in Europe, but in the U.S., charging stations are almost always equipped with the big J1772 plug used by the PiP. The point being made by the earlier poster was that many hotels use a power plug for their air conditioning units that is different from the standard 120V plug used in the U.S., the latter being what is used by the EVSE (power adapter) that Toyota provides with the PiP.