They probably wont allow EV charging, but dont worry, plenty of public rapid chargers around with many more on the way👍

 

I have to say I am away in North Yorkshire at the moment and lots of rapid charges there's not, and some of the few I've found are out of service . I have a Tesla and there isn't a even a supercharger up here.

 

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We'll do our best to give you a parking space next to your caravan holiday home or pitch – but we can't guarantee this. If you're planning to bring something that's not a car with you (a lorry, van, motorbike, jet ski or boat, for example), please check with your park before you book – some parks don't have the space, and some can't accept large or noisy vehicles. Branded vehicles or vehicles with signage on the side are not allowed on park and may be turned away. We're really happy that some of our guests are using hybrid cars to help protect our lovely environment. Please do not use your caravan holiday home electricity to do this. We're working on ways we can help you charge your cars while you're staying with us and are pleased to offer charging facilities on some of our parks, please contact the park directly for availability and pricing.

But I did do it with one caravan to get fully charged to get home (about 5kWh). I would not do this needing a 40kWh charge.

 

The last couple of sites I have been to with my motorhome had notices up telling you not to charge an EV on-site.

 

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I have solar and now itching for an EV (but likely not for a little while given current climate). Mostly it will be charged at home however we go on holiday a fair bit to caravan parks like haven. does anyone know if the electrics in the caravans will be good enough to granny charge a car running a cable through the window. if so will the camp be ok with it or will the get cheesed off? am sure I can't be the only one who is thinking of or has done this

thanks

Email/call the site and ask?

 

true I could but I guess I was thinking it may be better to ask forgiveness than permission. I just dont want to overload the circuit breaker in the caravan when we go. mind you if there are signs up saying not to charge then I wouldn't do it. I just never noticed them when I want before.

 

Hi

I have solar and now itching for an EV (but likely not for a little while given current climate). Mostly it will be charged at home however we go on holiday a fair bit to caravan parks like haven. does anyone know if the electrics in the caravans will be good enough to granny charge a car running a cable through the window. if so will the camp be ok with it or will the get cheesed off? am sure I can't be the only one who is thinking of or has done this

thanks

I bought a 10m granny for exactly this scenario. Always ask, no one has said no yet, some have asked for £5-9 for the privilege (I always pay cheerfully). I also always slow the granny down to 6A.

 

A lot of sites are gearing up for EV’s and installing chargers for customers to use. We’ve just come back from Highlands End in Dorset and they had about 6 charging posts to use dotted around the site (7kW I think as we didn’t use them having travelled in our ICE). Center Parcs are installing a lot more at their sites.

 

That is great. You only need a few posts compared to the number of pitches, it’ll be a long time before 50% of holiday park users will bring BEVs, most visitors will only need one charge.

The caravan club gave its member sites some terrible advice recently. They told the sites not to install charging points, they advised that customers should plug their caravan into the hookup then plug a granny through the window of the caravan.

 

I granny charged my Leaf at a Havon site by threading it through the open window, but that was as a guest of the caravan owner and was 4 or 5 years ago when EV were rare. The load wasn’t too much for the single caravan and was probably less than the potential load of the electric heater, microwave and kettle.

They didn’t have a policy covering EV at that time

 

One thing to think about;
If you are at Haven as a guest of an Owner, then the electricity used will be billed to the owner.
If you are at Haven as a guest of Haven ( ie in one of their rental vans) the ’normal’ electricity cost is included in your tariff
I suppose that may be why they may take a different view

 

if you’re sensible it shoudl be doable but may take some sites time to adjust to things.

people have more stuff they want to use in statics, and motorhomes have bigger batteries and more demand - so sites need to have a decent electric provision and inreasingly so.

Based on that - turning the charge rate down (eg to 6A like Stinsy) and perhaps also trying to keep usage in the caravan/motorhome down at the same time should be reasonable - your overall use not likely any more than others using induction hobs/hair dryers etc.

 

The vans I've stayed in only have a 20A breaker on the sockets circuit and only 1 circuit for the whole caravan, so very easy to trip if charging at 10A and you put kettle and or toaster on. Some older sites often only have a 16A total supply per caravan too. Though 32A is common these days.

There shouldn't be anything inherently dangerous about it though as the vans are quite new and regularly have the electrics checked and they should have decent grounding, but they don't like you doing it, either due to the extra cost of the electric or they don't want the hassle of people tripping their vans electrics and being called out.
Also, too many people charging at once would likely overload the entire site's supply.
I have heard stories at some sites where there are lots of hot tubs have problems over the Christmas period where too many hot tubs are in use!

 

I used this last year in Wales (where there were no public chargers). It avoids using a plug in the caravan and leaving a window open. I used the charge timer to charge at night when there would be no electricity usage I the caravan.

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