Electric hook-up
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But what happens if the car has no charge in the morning?
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There's two EV points on the air I'm on atm.
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Thanks, Milothedog. I've just downloaded it on my Ipad.
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I'll still be using diesel for my towcar, lornalou1. I have no plans to change the towcar for an electric version yet. The towcar is only used once every 21 days to tow the carvan to Littlehampton CMC site and back to Worthing CMC site after two days. So it uses very little fuel as the distance is only 7 miles each way.
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"The towcar is only used once every 21 days to tow the carvan to Littlehampton CMC site and back to Worthing CMC site after two days. So it uses very little fuel as the distance is only 7 miles each way"
If your tow car is fitted with a DPF you really need to give it a bit longer run every now and again or you may end up with a big bill for a blocked DPF
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Actually, it's a total of 28 miles on the two away days because of swapping over the cars twice during our time away. Woudn't that be sufficient?
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I had a look at my aircon manual and it says the aircon uses up to 4.2 amps. So it looks as though I can't run the aircon whilst the electric car is charging because this would need a total of 16.7 amps. Unless of course, by 16 amps, there is some leeway because it's still below 17 amps.
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It's a longer run at higher speeds that is required Malcolm to allow it to clean itself. Slow journeys in traffic do not allow this to happen. Perhaps use it to visit one of the NT properties you go to (rather than the Smart) where higher speed roads are involved.
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I think the thing you need to establish first is what charging the car will use. You mention 3kw, are you sure about that. The link brue provided seemed to indicate it would be less, but take longer than the 6 hours you mentioned to charge.
By the sound of it your vehicle has not been built yet, so it might be difficult to establish exactly what the slow charger will pull. Once you know, you will have a much better idea of what you can use at the same time.
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I personally would recomend Malcolm gets independant advice on this,and not from the electric car company.
If you arrive on a Club site,you plug you orange cable in,this is 2.5mm cable,within the caravan is the consumer unit with a rcd of 10a or hopefully 16a Malcolm must check what he has got for the socket outlet,this will be a radial circuit not a ring circuit as a house. I would guess the interior wiring is 1.5mm to the outside socket outlet.
Then the car would be plugged in to this.
So I have a couple of issues with this
1. Is plugging the car into the caravan exterior socket outlet classed as "dedicated" plug in point.
2 Interior 1.5mm will be on its amp limit around 16a at maximum charge rate.
3 As mentioned Malcolm "has not got a lot left" on maximum charge for the rest of his usage especially winter.
Malcolm if I was you get advice,I certainly do not know the answers,and because this is your only way of charging,the last thing I want is for you to make an expensive mistake.
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Malcolm, if you had a lower wattage kettle (700-1000w) this would help as a 2kw kettle is going to give issues with winter heating or hot water, with or without your EV charging.
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Malcolm tells us he has put down a deposit and ordered a Smart EV. All the information would have been available to Malcolm via Mercedes. In those circumstances Malcolm has had a considerable amount of time to discuss his needs and he could also have checked with the sites he'll be using what the "actual" supply is rather than the estimated supply. I think people have been helpful on here but now Malcolm must check the details of his own purchase and perhaps come back and tell us his plans for running the EV via an EHU. There are some site users already charging hybrids on site, these have smaller batteries. The only EV tow car at present is produced by Tesla (see other EV threads.) It will be possible to charge the Smart EV on site EHU but the residual power for other appliances will be small. Over to you Malcolm for your thoughts and plans?
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Note the line Token operated available via warden.
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Yes, it's good news, cariadon. If such a facility becomes available at Northbrook Farm and Gatwick CMC sites, it will mean we won't have to manage without our aircon and be able to use our other appliances e.g. 2 kw electric kettle without difficulty!
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How much does the token cost at the Brighton CMC site?
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Re the low mileage and DPF. You need to give the car at least a 40 mile hard run every few weeks ensuring the revs get above 2500 for at least 10 miles (hold in a lower gear if you need to). It is also recommended you use super diesel fuels such as Vpower or Ultimate. This applies irrespective of whether you have a dpf or not. I know a lot of poeple on here disagree however that is based on my experience and recommendations from a number of reputable professional sources.
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I find flatcoat's comment disconcerting. Except when accelerating away, I rarely go above 2000rpm. but then I don't do short runs either.
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Plus 1. I'd be very interested, as I expect would others. I suspect they'll refer him to HQ. I have replied to that effect on the what are you doing today thread where Malcolm has mentioned it too.
We, well OH, is considering another vehicle difficult with all the unknowns about sources of power, tax levels resale value of whatever fuel source etc. So good to have such info as background if nothing more!
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I am sure the "blue sky thinking
" that comes with most things from Westminster will be pushed onto the back burner when the time approaches ,in the meantime i think the only possible viable alternative is Hybrids and a report i read a couple of days ago shows that 98% of those do not achieve in real use any where near the published MPG that the manufacterers state some as much as 68% poorer0 -
A de-coke is about the combustion chamber, inlet and exhaust valves and outlets in the cylinder head, piston top and so on and nothing to do with the dpf however the process is not dis-similar. I call it an Italian tune up. All engines irrespective of petrol or diesel benefit but more so those low mileage mollycoddled engines.
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