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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time2roll wrote:
As long as they are remodeling the bathhouse maybe add just two circuits for night charging an EV.
Way less than a million $$$ and probably cover the need for the next 10 years. Every journey just needs to start with that first small step.
That's the point. Don't need to upgrade squat to charge 2 Nissan Leafs. Can doo that off of a 30A or 50A ped as long as only a couple people are doing it.
Aren't we talking charging tow vehicles and RVs here?
So you take that small first step, buy the super overpriced low mile range electric truck or motorhome. Now you can go 200 mi a day before plugging it in. But only 20% of the campgrounds have taken that small first step, so now what. And the campground owner who does take that step now wants $120 a night when you pull in, in your 2025 model Tesla 30' double slide Class C, which is ok, because you can afford it because you paid 3x as much for your RV.
Problem is, there's only 1000 campgrounds on the continent that will charge that rolling Energizer Bunny commercial, so you plan your trip around 100 mile jaunts to places you don't want to go.
Glacier Nat park? Nope, you'll need to tow a 30kw genset behind you to get there....and the NPS hasn't spent $250 million upgrading remote national parks to charge Tesla semis...
Anywhere else outside of a 100mi radius of a large town? Nope, cause only 200 of those "small step" forward thinking campground owners has upgraded.
I'll repeat, I'm as much for EV as anyone, but your statement above should read more like "most dreams are just that....dreams."
Maybe it's because I've been educated, trained and experienced at finding answers to problems my whole career and 2/3 of the people I deal with are primarily problem finders and not answer finders, but at the same time they firmly believe there is an answer to their problem but have no desire to figure out or even help with the answer. They actually penalize you when you don't find the answer that they have conjured up in their dreams!
They want to concentrate on "every journey starts with a small step" and then magically have people like me provide them all the steps without having to worry their little brains about how the steps got built...
