SDcampowneroperator wrote:
O P here.
Met with our SD district 30 reps today in a mid legislative session crackerbarrel . Hb 1153 passed by supermajority levying a $50/ annum surcharge on SD our registered 162 personal EVs inthe state.
Its a crack in the wall to raise fees equivalent to road use taxes in our user pay for road use service.
It was accepted that the % of EVs registered in state will grow beyond ICE powered vehicles. exponentially.
$50 a year is probably not near enough but at least they didn't go the other way.
I leased a 2015 Nissan LEAF from May of 2015 to late April of 2017. It was a 2 year, 24k mile lease. I turned it in a couple of miles short of 24K. In 2016 the Georgia legislature was pondering the road use tax issue for EV's and one legislator calculated about $100 (which was darn close to the tax paid on gasoline for my 32 mpg Vibe for 12K miles, but what did they do? the a$$ hat went "well $100 is OK so lets go with $200!!!!" and that is what they did in the legislation. Total ripoff. Hybrids such as a Prius only had to pay $100 a year. To be fair, I got a $5000 state income tax credit for that lease, which just about paid all of my state income tax for one year.
I cannot see how a campground would be able to afford to add the infrastructure needed to support even Level 2 chargers at every campsite. Now, RESORTS, those places I would never go, but the guy with the 40 diesel pusher with an EV on a trailer behind it would go to a place like that, so with sites being $90 a night or more, they could afford to do an upgrade.
If I were running a basic mom and pop campground near national parks and other out of the way places where electricity is limited, I would probably just install a couple of level 2 chargers somewhere close to the incoming power and set up some fee schedule for their use. The only other alternative would be something like the charge point system we had at work. I lived far enough from work that the first year, I could not drive the LEAF to work and home, Then they put in ten Charge Point connections and you flashed your card and it would deduct from your account. When the account got down to some amount, I don't recall what, i think it was $10, it would charge your credit card for an additional $25. I worked a Fri-Sat-Sun 12 hr days and a make up day every third week so on the weekends when the chargers were open, I would park on them and I would get a text message when it was fully charged and I would usually move it off the charging station (mostly because I wanted the car closer to me at the end of the shift, the stations never got full on weekends so there was no dying need to vacate the space.
My drive to work one way was about 47 miles, mostly interstate and the typical cost to charge was just shy of $2. I still have a $17.22 balance on the account and the last time I used it was April 23, 2017. I have two level 2 units here at the house, one on the back of the house, and another just inside the shop door. They were/are relatively inexpensive, so when GA Power made me an offer for a flat bill (no make up at the end of 12 mos) on the house, I put the one on the back of the house and drove for free for that first year. I dropped the flat bill after that, since it was going up about $30 per month due to my extra consumption the previous year.
Charles
