Sadly the EV boys may be behind. Does anyone know if Motorway services and others have chargers available for us EV owners with a caravan on the back?
Are the Knee Drugs kicking in, get back on the Beer DD.Sadly the EV boys may be behind. Does anyone know if Motorway services and others have chargers available for us EV owners with a caravan on the back?
Defo not a quick fix🍺🍺Are the Knee Drugs kicking in, get back on the Beer DD.
With the best of regards as always.
Short answer is - no they dont have EV chargers for caravans. The longer answer is much more complicated.They have chargers but not from my experience organised so you can park the car and caravan and charge; unless you're very very very lucky or take up far too many spaces! Short answer no; most I think unhook and park the caravan nearby with a guard; Tobes will put us right!
I think its more nuanced than that, but not far from the truth. If EV motormome and campervan manufacturers have ANY sense (unlikely) they will use nose mounted charger ports, or have the ports present on both sides (A'la the Audi Etron).It’s pretty clear no one knows the true answer😢.I didn’t!
I hope this excellent link helps and those with EVs today find it useful,
Moto excluded ( no response) the other three Services are a resounding NO.
Suggestions of unhitching may not be feasible due to location of caravan parking and EV hookup. Ie one way systems etc.
I wonder how the EV motorhomes will manage? Anyone seen one?
Charging While Towing - The Biggest Challenge
As I frequently discuss on this site, when towing you should generally expect around a 50% reduction in the vehicle’s range. The weight of the trailer/caravan and its aerodynamic profileelectrictowcars.co.uk
Interestingly, in the article there is a google overhead of a service area, showing how its hard to charge with a caravan. Hard - yes - impossible - no. This his Hilton Park southbound on the M6 just north of Birmingham. It's exactly where I charged with the caravan on the way back from the lakes, as per my post. I updated the overhead here with what I did. Red line is me arriving from the entrance. The caravan parking ins just under the black box (Electric cars towing park here). We put the caravan on the green rectangle. I then drove following the purple line to the gridserve chargers (there are 2 in the red circle with the hashed parking spots). You can also see the bank of 12 Tesla superchargers in the red box on the right. After charging, I followed the 1 way system on the green line back to the caravan. Hitched up again, and off we went.It’s pretty clear no one knows the true answer😢.I didn’t!
I hope this excellent link helps and those with EVs today find it useful,
Moto excluded ( no response) the other three Services are a resounding NO.
Suggestions of unhitching may not be feasible due to location of caravan parking and EV hookup. Ie one way systems etc.
I wonder how the EV motorhomes will manage? Anyone seen one?
Charging While Towing - The Biggest Challenge
As I frequently discuss on this site, when towing you should generally expect around a 50% reduction in the vehicle’s range. The weight of the trailer/caravan and its aerodynamic profileelectrictowcars.co.uk
Yes it is, obvious that EV recharging on service stations need to be updated and probably very rapidly, I have noticed a huge increase in the number of EV's and when people start using them for going on trips at weekends and bank holidays , ie longer journeys, then just having say 10 recharge points may not be enough.