Charging electric vehicles on club pitches

A constant theme that I notice in these discussions is that a certain element among members (a minority, I hope!) are constantly observing the activities of other members, with a view to openly criticising their behaviour on-site.  

I’ve read vitriolic posts/letters in the mag about children being noisy when playing (quelle surprise!), other members not using facilities to the  arbitrary standard of the complainant, and even a '‘Colonel Blimp’ style diatribe about people having the bare faced affrontery to have flags and external lighting on display!!   How very dare they? We didn’t do that in 1950!   

Well, my family and I will be visiting 3 CaMC sites this summer in our Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV, which will, with the Club’s permission, be plugged in to charge on a nightly basis (when the leccy is cheaper) in order to save, yes, our own fuel costs, but also the environmental impact of running family car, which burns fossil fuel.  A full 16A charge costs around £1.20 - probably less than running an awning heater, extra fridge, microwave, external 240v lighting etc.  Which we don’t.  

Like it, or not, it’s the future - albeit in its infancy.  Diesels, our solution for many years, are becoming an automotive ‘pariah’, due to their localised pollution issues, so we need to address how we will continue with our chosen way of holidaying.  By the way, I’m no tree-hugger - I own petrol powered classic cars and I LOVE the internal combustion engine: I just realise that it’s time as a mainstream source of transport is slowly, but surely coming to an end!

I know it’s a bit of a rant, but the point I set out to make was ‘Why can’t we all just get along?’  If caravanning is to continue, and I hope it is, we need to look forwards, not backwards.............

 You are totally correct ............. it was a bit of a rant

Thank you for your helpful input.  

We're still enjoying our EV, haven't taken it to a site yet. Last year there were two EV owners in our small village, now increased to six. We sometimes forget how expensive fuel is now and get a sharp reminder when we take the motorhome away. 

 I run a VW hybrid estate and it costs 75p to charge overnight 10KW.

I dont use an electric heater and cook on gas plus I pay full membership and pay for use of the clubs electric in my fees,even with charging the car I would find it hard to use £2 of electric per night.

Exactly the same as leaving a heater on overnight at 1kw.

plus it can happily tow a 1600kg caravan.

People need to get with the times and look at alternatives to Diesel.

Thanks for telling us what we need to do. 😐

Like it or not.  Camping organisations will be obliged to allow the charging of Electric Vehicles in the near future.  As petrol and diesel powered vehicles die out, to keep their businesses trading they will have to embrace modern technology.   The "we've always done it this way and we will not change" people will be shooting themselves in the foot if they refuse to modernise. 

K 

I won’t be changing from diesel any time soon.  By the time 2040 comes along I would imagine I’ll be a very distant memory

My nephew has a Tesla and he reckons a charge costs £5.50. If charging becomes more common the price of pitches is bound to rise as the costs will go through the roof.

In mid 2017 we replaced our euro 5 Honda CRV for a new euro 6 Ford Kuga, in mid 2020 we will be changing to a PHEV.

We use our solar panels and only use electric for the fridge and microwave everything else is of the 12v system, so in theory I use less electric than most.

Next time you see an old diesel driving around site, just remember it is poisoning your grandchildren, we all have to change.