Campground owners need a plan for EV charging

[Neal]

I'm on board with EV's but I'm not on board with not paying for services you're taking from campgrounds. A few years ago I was in Page, AZ for New Years, like a fool in the freezing cold and watched a Class B continually move around to different sites to avoid being noticed I assume, not paying for the site like I was. Today I arrive at Carowinds Camp Wilderness, my usual pre/post stop when going to Freightliner service and notice a camper in one site and a Tesla in the neighboring site charging from the pedestal.

It's not my business, literally and figuratively, but I can see this becoming a problem and could end up causing rates to raise where we all have to pay the higher electric bills not covered by the tenants. Maybe they got permission, I hope so, maybe they didn't. But this is going to be a thing now I presume.

 

[Buster]

A few of the places I have stayed at have a sign in the check in area hat you can charge your car for $10 per day during your stay. I have not seen these same signs at the state park or COE campgrounds so assume they aren't as impacted by the higher electric draws.

It's really no different than the EVs not paying gas tax but using the roads the fossil fuel vehicles pay at the pump to maintain. I certainly don't have an answer, but I agree that something needs to be figured out soon or it may get uglier that it is - i.e. the rolling coal stuff going on.

 

[MemoriesByTheMile]

In regards to EVs not paying gas tax, not sure which states are or are not, but I know some states are starting to charge an extra tax for EVs at the annual registration time.
No longer are EVs getting a free pass on the fuel tax. And in the case of Missouri that I heard about, it is a flat $125 a year, regardless of the number of miles you drive.

And yes, like states are figuring out how to make EVs pay, campgrounds will need to do the same.