Charging electric cars on Club sites.

It looks as though road pricing rather than fuel duty will be the replacement revenue for the government in the future.

The Club WILL charge for the electricity in the future, it won't have a choice!

If I was you I'd just enjoy the use you will have at the price you pay now cos it ain't going to last. My guess would also be that the "free" charge you can get at the stealers will not be "free" for that much longer either.

Better get yourself a genny and move onto a £5 site while the going is good and save some money!

(generators need fuel too, but you would have taken that into account)

Someone charging up a hybrid/EV on site is not increasing costs to other users because the costs have already been put into the site fees. The club are hopefully already making a profit from their site incomes. The usage at present is within the profit margins.

However making an assumption that we can do what we like or use what we like won't go down well with fellow site users and most of us appreciate the concerns of others.

However making an assumption that we can do what we like or use what we like won't go down well with fellow site users and most of us appreciate the concerns of others.

I think this is the main concern, this thread is not about an EV's consumption on site but more about someone getting one over on them. Other site clientele will think it's their monetary pocket that is paying for that person with his car plugged in, simply because they don't own one. It's the way of the human race 

I think I see a theme running here so I will run off to the sauna, plenty of hot air there

The answer to that is simple. An EV takes longer to charge even on a fast charge than a petrol or diesel car and people don't always have two hours available to do it.

The price will need to remain the same for EV users as is charged to other EHU users. Otherwise it is discriminating against EV users. So it will need to remain the same for now, which it is, but also for the future. For now and forever!

you and others keep saying but never answer this simple question:

Where will the cost of installing thousands of meters across all the club sites come from? 

Remember you can't legally charge anymore than the electricity used so you can't get the money back there?

From existing money then? Yes but then others things will have to go, new sites? new improvements ie MHSP? shower block refurbishments? hard standings? 

Or an increase in fees charged?

Neither if those really appeals, well not to me, maybe to you? Are you a heavy site user?

Or we keep things as they are the club makes a profit?

Looking forward to your answer to the above question btw

Don't think I'll be bothering then, my time left on this mortal coil is more important to me than sitting in a Dealers forecourt for 2+ hours waiting for enough charge to get me home!

Just to start the process all over again

I thought smart meters were being installed for free, currently?

(JOKING!)