EV Charging for Florida Hotels & Resorts

The data: charging out-books pools and breakfast

According to Jean Garris Hand, Hilton's VP and Global Head of Sustainability, in a July 2025 interview with Skift, EV charging is "the number one highest conversion amenity on Hilton.com." Hilton already has charging at more than 1,800 hotels globally.

Read that precisely: it's a conversion metric. Travelers who search and find EV charging at a property are more likely to complete a booking than those filtering for pools, on-site dining, or free breakfast. It isn't an executive ranking amenities by importance — it's measured behavior on the booking funnel.

The guest segment matters too. EV-owning households typically earn over $100,000 a year (American Consumer Institute, via industry reporting), so charging filters tend to surface higher-spend travelers. And hotels with public charging often capture non-guest EV drivers who stop to charge and end up in the restaurant or bar.

Why this matters for Florida drive-to resorts

Florida is a drive-to/destination market — the Orlando theme-park corridor, the Gulf coast, the Atlantic resort belt. Road-trippers and destination travelers plan overnight stops around where they'll charge. A resort with charging shows up in the filtered search. A resort without charging disappears from it.

That booking-filter mechanic is the part most owners miss: when a guest applies the "EV charging" filter on a booking platform, properties without chargers are removed from results entirely. The cost of not having charging isn't a missing perk — it's invisible lost demand you never see in your data.

What Florida Chargers installs

The Tesla Universal Wall Connector — Level 2, NACS plus built-in J1772 — which charges every EV on the road. Networked and listed on the Tesla app, so nearby drivers are routed directly to your property. End to end: design, permitting, utility coordination, install, commissioning, billing, driver support, and ongoing on-site maintenance.

Ways to pay (no capital required)

• Share the revenue. Florida Chargers co-invests and operates the system; the property earns a share of the charging revenue with less upfront cost.
• Financing. Available for qualified properties to lease the electrical infrastructure and installation with no money down.

Typical installed cost runs $5,000–$8,000 per port before incentives. For the full cost breakdown, see How much does EV charging cost for a Florida condo or HOA?

A note for Hilton-brand properties

Hilton announced a corporate partnership with Tesla to install up to 20,000 Universal Wall Connectors at roughly 2,000 hotels. That's real — and it's also a fraction of Hilton's 6,800+ properties. Rollout is gradual, the selection process is opaque, and many GMs we talk to don't know whether their property is scheduled or not.

If your property isn't on Hilton's list — or you want charging now, on your timeline, with the property earning the revenue rather than waiting on a corporate rollout — we can install and the economics stay with you. Same hardware. Your terms.