Charging electric vehicles on club pitches
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May I make a suggestion which may please the majority.
In the next few years there will be more electric vehicles on site,
(a) all electric and plug in hybrid be registered with the caravan club,
(b) if you wish to charge you vehicle on site you have to get a ticket which has to be displayed on site , the ticket to have a time and date.
(c) different coloured tickets i.e red for a full electric and yellow for a plug in hybrid with the appropriate charge, some companies are charging £0.09 + vat kWh, say £2.00 hybrid /£4.00 electric.
(d) the appropriate ticket to be displayed when the vehicle is being charged, then the wardens can monitor the system and fellow caravan's can report any freeloaders,
(e) misuse of the system more than 2/3 time suspension of membership.
Does that sound reasonable.
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I strongly disagree. Whilst the electricity is included in pitch fee I would not wish to create complications for anybody whose disability necessitates the complications of using a mobility scooter on holiday.
If, as an interim provision, CC banned charging cars on pitch and provided charging points elsewhere should the mobility vehicles also be charged elsewhere?
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so why as you posted:
I strongly be live if you are going to charge an electric vehicle (except my mobility scooter) you should pay the fair market cost,
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And say a green ticket for those that want to use awning heaters.......
On second thoughts maybe green is not the correct colour.....
And to prevent people cheating when the warden has gone to bed, we could recruit more wardens so that they can have 24 hour patrols to ensure compliance.........
All seems a good idea to me........
PD will be along in a minute to remind us that metering individual pitches is the way forward........!
And compared to this idea he is correct.......
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no, not really. For practical reasons mainly. Each bollard would then have to have it's own meter to check how much electricity is being used. Who would pay for that?
Charge is in price or amps btw?
I don't think that fellow campers want to check up and report on others and wardens have better things to do than wander round (like Blakey on the buses, or Hodges - put that charger out) checking pitches.
There is an all inclusive fee which includes electricity. Up to 16A, and campers can use that as they see fit with that 16A, an awning heater, hair dryers, tv, chargers.... or even a EV. It really doesn't matter what the electricity is used on?
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I have noted recently that more and more public car parks are charging blue badge holders (cash strapped councils?)which i cannot see a problem with
But as for charging mobility scooters on you pitch who would know as can the batteries be removed?
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I agree with ET. Electricity is factored into pitch fees. There is no need to over complicate things since a maximum amount can be used for whatever reason within the 16A. I have come round to agreeing though that a non EHU option should be available and certainly prefer that option to metered supply, even though we'd probably benefit as very low users of electricity.
Anyway, with all the different coloured pegs the club is going to need to invent some new colours if we're going to have coloured tickets as well!
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Oscar’s scheme will also need compliance with the Secondary Supplier Agreement if electricity is to be sold by the unit as it can only be re-sold for the same price as the club pays.
Wow, what a wonderfully simple system!😂😂😂😂
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Nope, it’s not my job to solve the issue when people in the club have far more detail and resources to work with than you or I.
That’s what we pay them for and, if we don’t like the end result, we stop paying em.
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but do you think that what we are saying here is a representative sample (it certainly is not in terms of numbers) of what members want or think?
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has to be a +1
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Nah, that was just an edit and unfortunate timing. No dark arts here.👻😆
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Yes
, it was as Tw mentioned. I realised by re-reading a previous post that I may have misquoted a member, so I edited my post but not before it was quoted afterwards in its original form.Everythings good ....... I think ....... if I eventually got it right
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well yes in principal but look what happened when the club got an outside provider AirAngel to do its wifi?
I can imagine if the system doesn't run properly it will be the club who gets the flak?
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But then a lot of work on sites ,that in the past was carried out by the wardens is now contracted to outside suppliers,hence the "problems some find on sites with O,O,O equipment waiting for enough jobs to make it "viable?" to call the "contractor"
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