nickthehunter wrote:
Reisender wrote:
nickthehunter wrote:
Reisender wrote:
At the end of the day no one will force a business owner to adapt.
Which is why the EV charger will be located somewhere very close to the electrical service entrance infrastructure (which may not be anywhere close to your site). If you want to charge your EV you take there, if not you’ll adapt. The cost of running the amount of power needed to provide EV charging to individual site is astronomical. It is not economically feasible. It’s not like running power from your breaker panel to your garage. But you can go ahead and keep believing the parks are going to come to you or go broke.
I think different parks will adapt different ways, just like hotels, golf courses, restaurants. If the park can only afford to add a few J1772 L2 EVSE's then I am sure that the EVer would appreciate them. I know I would.
So you would “appreciate” one; but how much extra over and above a non EV serviced site would you and your fellow EV’ers be willing to pay? Appreciation rarely pays the bills; however money talks and...
Well, I can't speak for other EVers. But personally?. Right now, on a road trip, when I go to a Supercharger other non Tesla DC fast charger I pay I pay 3 to 5 times the cost of charging at home just for the fast charge service. I would think I would be happy to pay the same for an over night charge so I would be ready to hit the road the next day with a full tank. There is probably a healthy margin in there as well for the operator. So say a half ton sucks up 150 kw of power at 10 cents per KW. Charge 40 bucks for the service. I would do that. I'm on holidays. Meh. Adjust accordingly for costs in your area. Others may feel differently. To each his own.
However, the flat rate might be less appealing to those who just want to top up. So a time based billing might be better albeit a little more high tech as one would have to use a commercial EVSE costing closer to a couple grand as opposed to a 800 dollar EVSE (or even free from Tesla).
One of the things the wineries around here are doing is getting the free EVSE's from Tesla and installing them in their parking lots. The only expense is the installation. Its definitely an attraction for customers as it seems popular. Its getting less important as vehicle ranges are getting longer, but still, dinner and a wine tasting while the car is charging is kinda cool. We have done it a few times. Everybody wins. Most only have one or two right now but then again, there are still not a ton of EV's on the road. Where we are about 10 percent of the new vehicles sold are EV's, but with EV trucks hitting the road this year and next that will probably jump up soon. COVID has slowed everything down around here a bit. Anyway, my point is, the Tesla free EVSE program might be an easy way to start. And they will provide both a Tesla and non Tesla EVSE if you wish. You would have to get in touch with Tesla for the details but seems to work for some. One would need a couple of 60 amp circuits although they are dip switch settable to work on 50 amp circuits. It would look something like this.
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