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?
Forum Discussion
Bedlam wrote: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.
You cannot just add additional circuits if your existing feed was sized for your current load. If it was that easy, I would just keep adding circuits to my 100A feed at home rather than spending big money to upgrade it from the local transformer (if that transformer even has more capacity).
Well, yes and no. Most panels/feeds are oversized to allow for future expansion. My (educated) guess is that adding half a dozen 6.6 KW EVSE’s wouldn’t be a stretch for many operations. And they would all be revenue generators. Maybe put four on sites and 2 as general use.
The service industry is in a state of constant change. This is just another one. No campground operator or hotel should be required to keep up to date. Those that do will continue to do business.
For the hotel business there are apps that let EV drivers know which hotels have EV charge infrastructure. EV drivers on road trips pretty much live by these Apps. It’s pretty much a binary decision for us. If it has charging facilities we consider staying there. If it doesn’t we don’t. If will be the same for campgrounds in a couple decades.
