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let me introduce you to plug-share - it's a crowdsourced app that provides a pretty good map of all the chargers in a given area - by inspecting plug-share you can determine how available a charger typically is - since the data is crowd sources it's not 100% accurate so always take the data with a grain of salt -but it's mostly accurate - and if you find it to be inaccurate you can update entries with your experiences to help improve the situation for others…Nice! Thanks for the info, this is really helpful.
So I have found some DCFC on I95 Near Richmond, one is at a Hilton the other at a Hampton, do you know if anyone can turn up and use these, or do they only allow guests to use them?
Thanks for all the advice.
https://www.plugshare.com
they also have a very helpful app which I recommend you keep on your phone and/or tablet - for hte serious EV road trip warrior I recommend buying a used tablet and putting all the "useful" EV apps on that tablet and just leaving it in the car for road trips - you can charge it via the car's USB ports or 12 volt adapters and it can get internet from the Bolt's WiFi hotspot - you will be dangerous if you have a connected internet device in the car with a useful set of EV charging apps
the FastDC charger at the Hilton is listed on plug-share as:
1. being run by green lots - a typically public charging network for which you need a free membership to access their chargers - they only charge you when you use their network
2. listed as "un-restricted" - which typically means anyone can use it
3. has a plug-score rating of "10.0" which is the highest rating which means you can almost 100% depend on it being in working condition
4. it has 7/24 availability
5. the most recent comment indicating a working charger is from Oct. 21, 2017 - so that's a good sign that the charger was recently used and functional.