Electric TT

Gdetrailer wrote:

Reisender wrote:


Ultimately it’s up to the campground. So far none have had an issue with it. Like I said though, we generally only rent 30 amp sites so it’s not like I can suck up more than 25 or 30 kilowatts over night.

It hasn’t been an issue for us. Can’t speak for others though.

Cheers.

Consider this..

Campground I recently stayed at, 5,200 camping sites, all with 30A/50A hookups..

That's up to 12Kw per site x 5,200 sites = 62,400,000 Kw potential usage..

Now double that to accommodate every site with EV charging plus RV..

124,800,000 Kwhr potential usage...

Was there during a long heat spell, was 95+F in the shade, voltage was sagging to 108V at times and campground was about 90% full..

Granted, not everyone has a RV with 50A, mine is 30A but still, as it is, there is no surplus of electric at campgrounds as of now.

Would hate to see what will happen if "everyone" drove EV trucks and tried getting a freebee charge there plus 5,200 sites with A/Cs buzzing to the max in the middle of Summer.. To make this even more realistic, that campground since it is near a large tourist draw has LARGE FAMILIES come in which often require separate vehicles.. Now you must accommodate extra vehicles per site.. Not all would want or need charging but if it is free, it most likely will be used..

While what you do works for 1-2 people, isn't going to scale up evenly or equally for a family of 6-8...

No idea and way out of my league. We are just RVers who like to travel and camp. But there are lots of RVers in trailers our size. We were in some campgrounds along the way where probably half of the rigs were SUV's or half tons or whatever towing trailers our size. of course 50 amp sites are kinda rare up here.

Anyway, here is a graph of our usage for the first 31 days or maybe 7200 kilometres of our last trip. The app only tracks 31 days max with a sliding window so the second half of our trip is not represented here.

The blue is home charging. Obviously none as we were on the road.
The red is supercharging. Self explanatory.
The gray is freebie charging. So in the driveway at the inlaws, touristy places with free charging and of course campgrounds. At least for our kind of combo I would say 10 to 30 kwh would be normal, depending on if we were visiting or travelling.

Anyway, hope this is useful info. I'm not interested in a toxic conversation or being referred to as a thief or freeloader so I'll leave this thread after this. Life is too short. :)

Safe travels and happy camping all. :)