What "destination charging" actually means

Destination charging is charging at the place you were going anyway: a hotel, a restaurant, a trailhead. The station is slower than a highway fast charger, which is fine, because your car charges while you do something else.

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The two roles

• Fast charging is for the road. High-power stations on the way, built for short stops while you wait.
• Destination charging is for the stay. Lower-power stations where the car sits for hours while you sleep or eat.

A hotel with working destination charging gives you a full battery every morning, which matters more to a trip than any single fast charger on the route.

Words you will see on listings

• Network name. Who operates the station and whose app, if any, starts it. Some hotel stations need no app at all.
• Level and power. How fast it charges. Overnight, nearly any working level is enough.
• Access. Guest-only stations are more likely to be free when you arrive; public ones serve the whole neighborhood.

When a listing here names a program or network, we name it exactly as the source reports it, because rules differ between programs and between properties.