Charging of Electric Vehicles on Site

Brighton site I know has a dedicated  charging point for electric cars  

Brighton site I know has a dedicated  charging point for electric cars  

I also believe this to be the case JVB. Nevertheless I wonder how many will use such points in preference to using a 13A plug connected in the van. The fairest was is meter every pitch.

Peedee 

Whithout trawling back ,what amps supply is needed to charge cars

May I ask,why should the CC supply a refuelling point for electric cars.on any of their campsites. -----IMO any investment resources could be much better employed .

Surely those with electric cars can go to their nearest town or refueling station to recharge their car batteries .  After all, the CC, quite rightly does not supply a refueling facility for Diesel or Petrol cars.

Why should the membership foot the bill for that investment.

K

May I ask,why should the CC supply a refuelling point for electric cars.on any of their campsites. -----IMO any investment resources could be much better employed .

Surely those with electric cars can go to their nearest town or refueling station to recharge their car batteries .  After all, the CC, quite rightly does not supply a refueling facility for Diesel or Petrol cars.

Why should the membership foot the bill for that investment.

K

I take the point but electric cars take far more time to recharge. I see no problem if the points are erected on sites on a basis where the driver covers the cost.

In the case of Brighton, it could be something to do with the council being the only Green council in the UK.

peedee

I can see this is quite an emotive subject but, in my very hubble opinion, it's not about "if" the CC does something about charging electric cars but "when" they do something.

The number of electric cars on our roads is very small at the moment but the numbers are increasing rapidly. Virtually all of the car manufacturers are bringing out new cars that are fully electric. Norway has already mandated there will be no new sales of internal combustion engined, (ICE), after 2025.

I pay 5p/kWhr on Eco7, so a 50kW charge costs me about £2.50 and takes about 7 hours. Diesel costs about £5/gal at the moment, so my electric car does over 250 miles for the price of a gallon in fuel. So once electric cars become cheaper why would anyone buy an ICE car?

To understand why chargers are required at places like CC sites one has to understand the different types of charging electric cars required. 

A) Most charging is done at home, a full car every morning. 

B) Trip charging, where the car is travelling further in a day than its range. There is already a very significant network of these, many motorway services have Rapid 50kW/120kW chargers.

C) Finally there's "destination" chargers, places where you are travelling to and need to charge once you get there, most probably overnight. This is what a CC site is, a destination. There is already an increasing number of Hotels, Guest Houses, B&B's that provide this sort of facility.

The CC doesn't need ANY investment at the moment, just a policy. I could just plug into the existing electric hook ups if required. The CC just needs a policy about fees and if, as I have suggested electric cars become more popular over the next 5-10 years, a multi year project to install dedicated posts may be required. (in the same way that WIFI has been installed).

Just to be clear I believe this should be a "Pay as you go" facility not something that's lumped in with the general pitch fee.

 ...... So once electric cars become cheaper why would anyone buy an ICE car? .....

The same reason that someone might buy a go-faster 5.5 V8 C Class Mercedes instead of the diseasal 2 litre 

There are some interesting comments here.  Clearly there should be no problem with any usage of electricity provided it was paid for.  Personally I would like to see electricity as an add on rather than lumped into a site fee. In that way you could opt out altogether.  With the increasing use of solar panels this might become quite popular.

@MollsMummy, have a look at the Tesla P90DL, I don't think there's a production Merc that can beat it 0-60mph  (2.8sec 0-60mph and still does >250mpg driven normally....)