Charging electric cars on Club sites.

or you could hang fairy lights on them?

We have charging points at Railway stations and some Supermarkets which are usually continuously populated by EV's charging their batteries.

Is this not a huge problem for the users of these vehicles that they have run out of fuel and, although there are charging points, all of them are already connected to a vehicle. It is bad enough for most people to wait five minutes for the next available diesel pump, but having to wait 45 minutes for someone to finish shopping, or until they return from work at 6:30pm will make the idea of recharging quite pointless (other puns are available).

What is the way around this block?  Can one person disconnct another vehicle to connect theirs? Can they do it while charge is still available - either to use up and left-over charge once the first vehicle is full, or to steal what someone else is paying for?  In fact, does one have to pay at all for these charges?

Ours charger locks in and the fast charge can take less than15 mins but as it wouldn't be a full charge (how could you get  there on a flat battery?) you can take out the connector at any point and pay for what you've used, similar to a petrol pump. Some chargers are free, some are pay as you go with a card.

how could you get there on a flat battery?

Good point.  

Will one electric vehicle have enough capacity to tow another?  Or should charging points be created only at the bottom of hills - assuming that there is a "free wheel" function available?

It's the regenerative braking that helps....but I must be boring the pants off everyone on here so I'm going to leave the debate now. 

I for one are quite interested,as we may go for a Hibrid as our next tow vehicle(EVs not yet capable) but have yet to find out properly what the current draw is when charging,the batteries ,is ten amps as per the the biggest MCB in a caravan really enough

Just to re-assure you JVB, yes, but it will be quite a slow charge, it would be quicker for us at present with a full EV just to visit a fast charger elsewhere but some hybrid users (much smaller battery) obviously choose to do it on site. So you would be ok. Anyway that's enough from me. 

From what I have been reading recently, 10 amps is OK, but the time for a total charge could be quite long.  For instance the little Smart EV  might need about 20kwh, so at 10 amps that could be about 9 hours.

Assuming nothing else uses the same circuit, that would leave you 6amps to use elsewhere meantime......fridge, battery charger, TV, lights and not much else.  Probably no heating or HW unless you are using nothing else, and then heating and HW could use around 1 kw.

I think you would get through a fair bit of gas in cold weather!

With a hybrid you would need much less .

you're not actually, I'm looking at the Kia Niro for our 'runaround' ie not towing car and it comes with either plug in and the regenerative braking non plug in type. Does the plug in version still have regenerative braking so that it charges the battery while driving or replies on the plug in totally.

I'm not totally confident on having a full type EV yet due to range.  

Thats what i have so far found,its just the Hybrids i saw at FM in the summer neither of the owners were sure what else they could use when charging,and did not want to face the wrath of the site staff if they kept tripping the bollards  so kept the other big power draw equipment turned off