time2roll wrote:
Cost to fully charge a low battery to full is about $15. Meter the site or charge an additional fee.
Restrict charging to be 10pm to 10am and see how it goes. Additional restrictions as needed.
Possibly only allow one EV per electric connection loop. Or provide some modest power L2 stations with metered charges.
Not a big deal really.
Adding meters and then having staff monitor those meters is expensive.
Also, it introduces complications for short term stays. At monthly stays with meters, we've been ready to leave but had to wait until the maintenance guy got in so he could read the meter. Not a huge issue when it's once a month but if you have 200 rigs on sunday afternoon trying to get home on a schedule, I see it as a mess.
Restricting charging times means the park owner has to police usage. That's a source of conflict that owners really don't want.
Many RV parks struggle with air/con...adding more than a handful of EVs in a park will increase the number of times the power goes out and the park gets complaints. That's not desirable.
Urban parks may be able to upgrade the power but more remote parks, it can be in the tens of thousands to upgrade the main park feed plus tens of thousands more to upgrade the internal systems.
As someone mentioned, it likely will be like park wifi where they struggle to keep up with demand.
If we are talking about a situation where there are more than a handful of EVs, it's a huge deal.
