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SDcampowneroper
Feb 18, 2021Explorer
O P here, some great info, ideas. Some skewed more by opinion than fact. We all defend our decisions to buy this or that, or into an ideology based on some experience in our lives. I like chevy California wines are very good, overrated Get my drift?
Though I am retired, I have many camp owner friends and a little sway in the national industry and in our state legislature through my many years participating in them .
To argue that EVs are not a part of the future is poppycock, the fact is EVs are selling and being used at a growth rate in the RV motorhome ownership crowd beyond any other. These EVs will need recharging , mostly at night after the day trip to sightsee in touristy, and short season places I know well.
Camps will have to contend with EVs as a part of business, we had to with a growing # in our last years owning the camp, where we could, let them charge on a vacant site, then actually by meter read the KW hrs used. This was not satisfactory to the EV owner, as they had rented a fhu with utility included, they expected to use as much as the could get, included in the daily rate. They would plug the coach into the 30, car into 50. Our panels got oveloaded as they were by NEC code designed to feed peak loads. ( 200a@ 240 v = 48000w) to the sites connected. Connecting both coach and car could put load on that pedestal to 15600watts. I'm no sparky or engineer, obviously the camp distribution grid will fail with only a couple recharging units sucking juice from if.
Camps everywhere are looking to the future and how they can meet this growth demand with the caveat, of it being a cost neutral, cost recovery over time over expense. Some may zealously court EV owners like hotels and casinos, with their easy emplacement and available power, recover costs with structured fees.
To that end, EV owners recharging would have to pay a premium to the property in some way.
In a business model charges and fees are ideally suited to use of those facilities Where the many other factors of a camp can be rationalized to an average daily site fee, with many charging for high occupancy, or the practice we detest of raising fee schedules on occupancy.
Private camps can and will manage a way to meet your wishes and needs, They build it on the premise you will come. You must be prepared to pay not just for the 'refill' also for the infrastructure. Upcharge for site fees that have EV charging stations until law permits electric vehicle charging upcharge on them is coming your way
Though I am retired, I have many camp owner friends and a little sway in the national industry and in our state legislature through my many years participating in them .
To argue that EVs are not a part of the future is poppycock, the fact is EVs are selling and being used at a growth rate in the RV motorhome ownership crowd beyond any other. These EVs will need recharging , mostly at night after the day trip to sightsee in touristy, and short season places I know well.
Camps will have to contend with EVs as a part of business, we had to with a growing # in our last years owning the camp, where we could, let them charge on a vacant site, then actually by meter read the KW hrs used. This was not satisfactory to the EV owner, as they had rented a fhu with utility included, they expected to use as much as the could get, included in the daily rate. They would plug the coach into the 30, car into 50. Our panels got oveloaded as they were by NEC code designed to feed peak loads. ( 200a@ 240 v = 48000w) to the sites connected. Connecting both coach and car could put load on that pedestal to 15600watts. I'm no sparky or engineer, obviously the camp distribution grid will fail with only a couple recharging units sucking juice from if.
Camps everywhere are looking to the future and how they can meet this growth demand with the caveat, of it being a cost neutral, cost recovery over time over expense. Some may zealously court EV owners like hotels and casinos, with their easy emplacement and available power, recover costs with structured fees.
To that end, EV owners recharging would have to pay a premium to the property in some way.
In a business model charges and fees are ideally suited to use of those facilities Where the many other factors of a camp can be rationalized to an average daily site fee, with many charging for high occupancy, or the practice we detest of raising fee schedules on occupancy.
Private camps can and will manage a way to meet your wishes and needs, They build it on the premise you will come. You must be prepared to pay not just for the 'refill' also for the infrastructure. Upcharge for site fees that have EV charging stations until law permits electric vehicle charging upcharge on them is coming your way
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