p220sigman wrote:
I agree with seeing them install several charging stations in a central location rather than setting up each site. Depending on traffic in the area and the layout of the campground, they could install it at the front or adjacent to the campground as a pay site and generate additional revue by it being available to non-campground patrons too. Use the additional charges for leaving the vehicle after it is fully charged to encourage owners to move vehicles once they are charged to help with availability.
The other option in the near term would be upgrading several sites with charging infrastructure and then charging extra for those sites. Of course this would depend on the ability to upgrade the campground feed if necessary and the costs. It would be cost recovery for the electricity used and discourage those who don't have an EV from reserving the sites to have them available for EV users to reserve.
Centralized charging stations would be a no go from the consumer point of view. From personal experience I can tell you they are not going to want to park their vehicles away from their sites, even for a relatively short period of time. We had people complain that some of our sites had the parking for the towed vehicles directly across the access road, maybe 25 feet away.
Then you have the problem of if you advertise you have charging you need to have it 100% available. People aren't going to be happy to reserve an RV site and find out they can't charge their EV because someone else beat them to it.
These are just a few of the issues besides the 800LB gorillas of cost and utility capacity that would have to be considered before a park took on the added challenges of being a refueling station.
