Hi All

Traveling for business, the hotel we will be at has Tesla superchargers. We are looking at renting an EV for the experience.

Can an EV6 use the Tesla chargers? It will be a rental car. Other option is to rent a model 3.

Any info appreciated. Will we have to download an app to use the tesla charging network?

Thanks in advance

  • north_atlantic_moose@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    How far are you actually going to be driving on your business trip? It might not matter because you might not need to charge at all.

    I recently received an unexpected Chevy Bolt EUV as an Avis rental, which concerned me some because it is notoriously slow to charge. But in my whole 5 day trip I only drove about 150 miles, so there was no point in charging—and unlike an ICE car, they didn’t ask you to recharge before returning

    • Sracer42@alien.topOPBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      It’s about 180 miles from airport to the hotel roundtrip. Then 10 days of around town stuff while we are there. I figure we will need to charge maybe once or twice.

      Seems like this will be a low stress way to try out an EV.

      • north_atlantic_moose@alien.topBEnglish
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        10 months ago

        With 90 miles of highway driving each way, you probably are going to want to charge once, and possibly twice if you drive around town a lot.

        If there’s an L2 charger you can leave the car on for a while (ideally, overnight at the hotel), then you don’t need to think about fast charging at all.