Charging electric cars on Club sites.

Alex, when towing on petrol alone what is the mpg?

Sorry Grant, I don't know for sure. Keep meaning to reset trip and work things out, but something always gets in the way. The things that I do know is that the tank is small at 45 litres and we usually have to stop for fuel after about 2 hours at most. We never leave it until the last minute and have seen us get between 120 and 160 miles before filling up. Probably not much help as these are just observations, nothing definite. Cheers.

Thanks Alex

Thanks for that Alex, so how long would a plug in charge take? Using a standard three pin plug that is?

I'm told, a maximum of 6 hours, from totally flat. It's hard to verify that, for us at least, as we only ever charge overnight, when on-site. This is to ensure that nothing else is drawing power, or at least that no heating / water heating is on, to avoid a trip.

It was the same at home, before we had a charger installed. The battery was flat, plugged into 3 pin in garage when going to bed. Then the next morning, the battery is full.

Thanks again

Cariadon, It's none of anyone elses business, except the car insurance company, what you use your car for. It's your car and you are entitled to use it for whatever you deem fit.

Regardless of whether the car is used for leisure or work or both, if you use your 3 pin socket to charge overnight, it will use less than the 16 amp output allowed on site otherwise the system would trip.

Alex is correct, from flat to full with his PHEV.

Using the standard portable 2kW (8amp) mains draw charger from a 3 pin socket. Average cost of 14p/kWh in UK.

Outlander PHEV Hybrid has a 12kW battery, 6 hours. £1.68 cost.

Smartcar EV has a 17kw battery, 8/9 hours. £2.38 cost.

Nissan Leaf EV has a 40kW battery, 20 hours. £5.60 cost but would benefit from a fast charger as it would take too long and unsuitable for portable charging, unless just topping up.

Hi everyone, 

A polite request to ask that we please keep this discussion on track as it has drifted off topic on occasion, otherwise I will need to close it until we have a further response from the site operations team. 

Many thanks. 

My question was regarding charging business vehicles on site, not questioning the use of vehicles.

It would become my business if inconsiderate people kept tripping the system while I'm on  site weather by using too many appliances or charging EV.  I'm sure others would feel the same if their late night TV viewing was interrupted by tripping bollards. .