Club to charge for electric vehicle charging
I see on page 92 of this months magazine the club are going to charge for charging of electric vehicles, £2 for a Hybrid and £8 for a fully electric. However initially it is going to be up to the member to let the warder know they want to charge their car on arrival so another job for them to police. Future they are planning proper charging points.
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That's going to upset Malcolm's budgeting.
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Oh dear, I trust them to trust me. I also trust that they will deal with the untrustworthy who walk amongst us. We are already expected to declare all in our party and some, their age. If people are clearly being dishonest should the staff just turn that blind eye in your opinion?
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But you would only be charged the £8 to charge your EV on the days you would need to plug in, not every day, unless it has only low capacity battery,(or its used for Pizza deliveries every day)
And as for all members being honest and adviseing the site office staff they "were charging their vehicle today/night " just ask any staff who were working on the sites network when EHU was an add charge how "honest?" some members were/are
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All going well we will have a Outlander PHEV in June, I have no problem with paying £2.00 to charge up, I can only guess how many times I will need to charge up, hopefully I will be able to pop into the office and pay for any additional charges.
Would it not be easier if you purchased a ticket, which had a date to be displayed in the vehicle being charged windscreen., that way if you were charging you vehicle without a valid ticket you be reprimanded.
Our caravan has energy saving led lighting etc, we have fitted 2 x solar panels and a MPPT solar controller so as to limited our use on the grid.
I can see and probably welcome smart metered pitches.
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Some people may well be spending more time using the "free" charging points that some car dealers offer.
I think a Smart uses about 25-30 kWh for a full charge, so maybe £4 worth, so paying £8 for a charge is not sensible. Those with bigger battery capacity will get better value.
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Will not be long before it rolled into the pitch fee, when this occurs hopefully you can opt out and not pay for the electric i for you do not require it.
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much sooner than you think and you will not be immediatley aware of it. It will be in the usual annual price hike, and as per now it will be brushed aside as "due to the increase cost of utilities" and as pitch fees are not itemised you will never be able to know just how much your are subsidising your neighbour with his bright shiny new EV
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i would agree with that if there were any signs that this was so. At least metering could be introduced gradually. I would have thought Cayton with all the money being spent on it ( alegedly £7 Million) was the ideal place to start.
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If he is paying £8 for the privilege I doubt that I shall be subsidising him. So far (according to one poster) 1% of the vehicles on site are PHEVs or EV. I suspect that there are few EV vehicles though.
With 99% of site users using ICE vehicles it is a way down the road before it is included.
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Ultimately, metering the supply to each van would be the most equitable - and might well result in a downturn in electrical consumption across the network.
Clearly there’s an initial installation cost to be considered but it would be the more sensible longer term approach.
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Ok so my fingers flew over the keyboard too quickly. and I have one eye on other things, so can you explain further JVB because the February article in the magazine did not exactly inspire me with confidence the Club meant business.
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