Electric car charging on Club sites

I arrived at the Broadway CC site yesterday 27 November for11 nights. I towed my caravan with (a new to us) 2 year old Volvo V60 Recharge PHEV. The car has an eleven kwh electric motor which provides power for around 25 miles which is enough for our pottering around town and the 2ltr petrol engine operates in hybrid mode when electric is exhausted or use halted or in 4 wheel drive.

I plugged the car in with charge rate set at 6 amps to prevent any overloading of the bollard. I have now been advised that the CCcharge NINE POUNDS PER DAY to plug in either a full electric (40-100kwh batteries) or a PHEV with an 11kwh battery. I am being charged over 80p per kilowatt for a full charge from empty. This is twice the rate at some public charge points and four times my domestic rate. A 40kwh charge from empty would equate to just 22p per kw and a 100 kwh battery would cost just 9p per kw.

This is clearly inequitable  and it can't be beyond the wit of man to require electric or PHEV vehicle owners to declare at booking the kwh rating of the cars battery and a charge be levied accordingly instead of one flat rate regardless. I have now resorted to using the car petrol engine to charge the battery on CC Club sites. This defeats the whole concept of electric car use, charging and environmental responsibilities with the rip off and ill thought out  CC &MH charging policies.

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