Groover wrote:
westernrvparkowner wrote:
Reisender wrote:
Campgrounds won’t be required to upgrade their services to provide for EV charging. No more than hotels are required to have EV charging for overnight stays. Of course, we won’t stay at a hotel if they don’t have destination overnight charging. It’s up to them if they want my business.
Will the power fairy just sprinkle pixie dust on the services to allow for the increased loads? The concerns aren't about the one guy who tows a Tesla behind his Prevost, it is should EVs become ubiquitous, how the heck are they going to be charged. I agree, if I wanted to allow it, my parks could easily handle charging one electric vehicle overnight. The problem arises when that one vehicle becomes 30 or 40, when it isn't just topping off the battery, it's recharging a couple dozen of these Atlis trucks (this thread) from nearly discharged to full capacity so they can go 500 more miles tomorrow. It isn't about using a 120 volt charger that adds 5 miles of range an hour, it's about how do you supply 480 volt, or even 1000 volt services to each site if the answer to the recharging question is charge at your destination because that is what is going to be needed to recharge the type of vehicles used in RVing. In my opinion, EVs will only capture the major transportation market when and if charging becomes similar to refueling an internal combustion vehicle in both time and convenience.
I don't think that anyone here is expecting you to do it for free. However, I do suspect that you charge extra for sites with 50amp service. I think that it would be prudent of you to expect power demands to increase in the future and to consider that when doing any work on your grid and be prepared to charge appropriately for extra power provided. As for charging vehicles, if I were in your place a I would consider putting in a few EV charge stations near the main office in the future.
All EV's come with EVSE's that plug directly into a 14-50 240 volt stove/RV plug and usually come with adapters that adapt to dryer or even 120 amp receptacles. The campgrounds don't have to invest anything initially. Most EV's draw max 32 amps thru their furnished portable EVSE's.
Unless there is some other draw to the campground (restaurant, etc) it wouldn't make much business sense to add a DC fast charger as they can cost north of 100 grand and require three phase power.