Are we being forced to go electric?

[newfhouse]

Interesting recent take on the 'go electric campaign', is how will large caravan / camp sites that have several hundred pitches or holiday camps manage in providing enough charging points for their customers - ? One site in particular has 1000 static pitches plus several hundred more touring / tent pitches. Fast forward to our all electric Utopia and visualise the electric infrastructure that this site would need in order to provide enough reliable charging points for even three or four hundred customers who would want to charge up on the same day before leaving for home.

Do they have petrol and diesel pumps on site or do they expect their customers to refuel elsewhere?

 

[MrGrumpy]

I would argue if you go to a destination and then spend most days driving away, stay in a hotel or BnB near a town or city.

right ok ……….

 

[youngoldbloke]

Do they have petrol and diesel pumps on site or do they expect their customers to refuel elsewhere?

Fair point. However I can foresee difficulties in tourist areas with a relatively low year round population providing enough charging points to cope with an influx of summer visitors. There can be queuing in the summer at the very few petrol stations in the area I now live in, and I suspect the through-put is much faster than with EV charging.

 

[cougie uk]

To be fair Abergeirw near Dolgellau didn't get electrity until 2008, so many decades after most, how long will they have to wait for their car chargers!

Literally living in the dark ages ! I'd not worry - they won't hear about the internal combustion engine for another few years yet.

 

[cougie uk]

When on a campsite (New Forrest)we charged our 100kW car on trickle, so there was no big surge. It took two days, we weren't there to go off driving. You go to do local things like walking, or cycling.

I would argue if you go to a destination and then spend most days driving away, stay in a hotel or BnB near a town or city.

We go to the Lakes - car is parked for the week and we walk everywhere. There's enough countryside to see without having to drive all over it.
We either trickle charge if we can - or there's a good few charging points up there for the return trip.

 

[Chislenko]

Literally living in the dark ages ! I'd not worry - they won't hear about the internal combustion engine for another few years yet.

They used diesel generators prior to that, which if I am not mistaken is also the back up for UK hospitals should there be a power cut.

I presume they would have to find a new method of hospital backup should diesel be stopped all together.

One would presume our far sighted politicians are already looking into this 🙂

 

[icowden]

Not VWs though, they’re awful looking!

Really?
https://ev-database.org/img/auto/Volkswagen_ID4/Volkswagen_ID4-01@2x.jpg

I quite like mine. And to quote a local...

"Love your lights mate, I thought you were a faackin UFO coming down the road..."

 

[vickster]

Really?
https://ev-database.org/img/auto/Volkswagen_ID4/Volkswagen_ID4-01@2x.jpg

I quite like mine. And to quote a local...

"Love your lights mate, I thought you were a faackin UFO coming down the road..."

Yes really, yuk. Why would you want a car that resembles something that doesn’t exist??
The small one is as bad too especially in that dreadful dull battleship grey colour

 

[cougie uk]

They used diesel generators prior to that, which if I am not mistaken is also the back up for UK hospitals should there be a power cut.

I presume they would have to find a new method of hospital backup should diesel be stopped all together.

One would presume our far sighted politicians are already looking into this 🙂

Well there should be a lot of ex EV batteries that might not have the energy density needed for a car but can still store a good few kWh as back up..

 

[cougie uk]

Yes really, yuk. Why would you want a car that resembles something that doesn’t exist??
The small one is as bad too especially in that dreadful dull battleship grey colour

From that pic they look like most cars ? No idea what the lights are at night though?

 

[vickster]

From that pic they look like most cars ?

Yep most current models are fugly imo regardless of manufacturer

 

[DRM]

Well there should be a lot of ex EV batteries that might not have the energy density needed for a car but can still store a good few kWh as back up..

Not really, it needs to be a reliable power supply, not a back up battery that will go flat as used, not a good idea for a hospital

 

[cougie uk]

Yep most current models are fugly imo regardless of manufacturer

I guess not every car can be a Jaguar E Type...

 

[Milzy]

Yep most current models are fugly imo regardless of manufacturer

I agree, you need a classic I/C car if you want to pose.

 

[vickster]

I agree, you need a classic I/C car if you want to pose.

I don’t want to pose, I just don’t like tall boxy cars with weird angles and odd shaped over bright lights, not to mention daft gullwing doors!