Charging electric cars on Club sites.

If you came back to a site in the afternoon with an EV and your car needed charging would you leave the battery with no charge or start the charge, I think I'd prefer to have some sort of charge. A hybrid would be different, it already has some fuel available. We always make sure our EV car can be used, I would hate to be without at least a half charged battery.

I do not IMHO think full EV vehicles will ever be the vehicle to have,Hybrids on the other hand  will be far more common as they have the capacity to be used "off grid" and in the last couple of weeks, there have been numerouse power cuts lasting at times more than 24hrs there are today thousands of homes without power,  the overnight charge to enable the EV to take the owner to work/biusiness would be "interesting"and that before the enormous cost of installing the nationwide infrastructure,to cope with the "blue sky thinking" of the govenment

Malcolm no heating is running and drawing full power 24/7 any time of the year as the thermostat controls the output

We charge as soon as we think the vehicle will be at home for awhile, it could be at any time of the day. I would imagine on site most would charge a hybrid/ev or whatever as and when needed, not particularly overnight.

Equally there have been fuel stoppages and increases which can produce a surge in demand. We are all dependent on something.

I have solar panels on my roof at home which, if I had an EV, could supply a significant amount of the electricity required. However, I do not think that EVs have yet reached the viable transport stage. National infrastructure will be a while yet coming and I don't see CAMC beefing up site supplies anytime soon.

An EV seems, will draw more power for charging than the Batt on hybrids, and when was the last problem with filling stations, compared to power outages from the electricity supply

Of course their may be a surge in purchases of compatable portable generators,or all EVs fitted with range extenders,(hybrids)😉

Posted in reply to previous post from Cyber.. They don't really need to, the Tesla at £78000 plus is the only EV tow vehicle at present....but no doubt there will be changes in the future.

JVB, the range extender powers the battery not the car, it's not a hybrid. But we're off course again so that's it from me.

So you have a way of charging the Batt when the power goes off😆

No JVB.