The future cost of RV stay
If/when electric tow veh become common what do you think the average RV park will charge for a nights stay if they charge $40 per now?
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mkirsch wrote:You need to move to kWh for an EV battery. Most are 60 to 100 kWh. 50 amp RV supply will put charge in an EV at up to 9.6 kW.
Most people don't have any idea what it takes to charge a battery.
Battery capacity is measured in Amp-hours. A rough idea of how long it will take to charge a battery is to divide the Amp-hours capacity by the Amps you will be charging the battery at. 100 Amp-hour battery charging at 10 Amps will take 10 hours to charge fully.
That's just an OVERSIMPLIFIED, ROUGH idea of how long, but it is eye-opening to a lot of people who think that putting the charger on for 15 minutes or even an hour is going to charge their battery.
With something that mimics the performance and range of even a modest tow rig like a Silverado 1500 or Explorer, you're talking on the order of tens of thousands of Amp-hours. That means lots of hours or very high charging rates. You're not going to get much of a charge overnight if you want to go sight-seeing during the day on a 120V supply.
Overnight charging on 120v is good for maybe 50 miles per day in a smaller EV not towing.
