AIBU charging electric car without asking at Air BnB

This is rubbish. OP has said there is a super fast charger near by. It’s cheeky to just plug your car in. I have an electric car and wouldn’t dream of doing this and so long as there were public charging facilities in the vicinity it wouldn’t put me off booking.

you should only charge an electric car if your fuse box can manage it. It might cause an overload using the 3 pin option. I wouldn’t plug ours in randomly because you don’t know if the electrics are sufficient.

Because some insurance companies don't gouge or use any excuse to avoid paying out.

The lead to the car? To charge a car you need specific car cables that have all sorts of safety things in them.

Scooter fires can be a problem, because they have cheap batteries. Car batteries have lots of safeguards.

Tell her insurance company.

“Thatcham Research, the UK motor insurers’ research centre, conducted research from 2018 to 2020. They found that 0.001% of plug-in hybrids and 0.003% of range extended electric vehicles were the subject of fire claims. That was lower than the 0.007% of petrol vehicles and 0.011% of diesel vehicles.”

https://www.portskillsandsafety.co.uk/about/news/statistics-on-vehicle-fires-comparing-electric-and-non-electric-vehicles/#:~:text=Non%2Delectric%20vehicles%2C%20however%2C,those%20responding%20to%20EV%20fires.

The fires are more intense I grant you but they are also significantly less likely to happen. That's 1 in 100,000 plug in hybrid cars it happens to. Very rare.

It's such an overstated risk, though, as it's so ridiculously rare. It's like saying "don't go to the beach, because that's where tsunamis happen".

It depends on the battery chemistry. Iron batteries ideally should be charged to full every week or so. Mind you, they are so indestructible, it barely matters.

I'm also an EV owner, and regular trickle charging is considered fine by the manufacturer of my car. Plugging it in every night is the whole point! You don't have to think about it!

My relative had this same issue with cf guests. Insurance also excluded it

People are really just shit aren't they....

Ten years plus is what I said 🙄

Ten years? The batteries being made now should go for decades and decades. They are still good for house batteries once they don't hold enough charge for a car.

If you have a point put in, I assume you’d need to charge more, to cover the cost of that plus the electricity.

The fire hazard comes from trying to charge off a 3 pin plug - they may or may not be safe (how would you know have they had it tested?) and it going into a standard prob double socket - how is the house wiring!!! This kind of charging is generally older electric cars so could be increased risk. I would put signs by the sockets likely to be used and say not suitable for car charging due to house power rating or something. 95% of people have no clue how to assess whether that is true or not to be fair. I would also make sure that there is a notice on the fridge (the oracle!) that tells them where nearest different types of chargers are - most supermarkets now have good fast chargers so a 30 min shop will get them to 80%. You only have the one let so installing a charger when you don't have an electric is a bit of an extravagance given its 800 to 1k generally. The cost doesn't seem high till you work out what a full charge is on your power rates and multiply that by how many nights you let out the accom - so 8 quid isn't much until you multiply by say 30 for a low key rental and then its 240 quid which is quite alot to take off the bottom line

Oh, I don't know. I'm happy enough if there's a supercharger within 5-10 miles of where I am. I would always ask the owner if I could charge the car first even if they had a charger, unless it had been advertised to me that I could, and I certainly wouldn't be trickle charging out of a window.

OP - most batteries in EVs now last ten years+ and the technology on recycling batteries is constantly improving. My neighbour feels the same way as your husband (is also in the motor trade) but my view is that EVs aren't going away any time soon and your property would certainly be more appealing to me as a holidaymaker or business traveller if I could charge my car overnight there.

Full charges only?
Is this a full ev? Which manufacturer?
I thought wisdom was keep it between 20 and 80.
A full charge on 3kw would take ages to go to full
Maybe things have changed since I first got my car

My car manufacturer says it should be treated like charging a phone, don’t just plug it in when and where, do it for full charges only 🤷🏼‍♀️

The difference is that an ICE car fire can be relatively easily extinguished.

Extinguishing an EV fire can be “challenging”.

I can believe this but before others leap in on EVs being a fire hazard it will be the fault of the electric socket or possibly the cable not the car itself. We use the three pin plug sometimes for our car but only because we know its safe as recently installed.

OP - in your shoes I'd consider putting a charger which will make your property more attractive. The occupiers were CF for charging without you asking. We have asked nicely int he past and left a tip to cover the cost. How much it actualy costs will vary wildy. Charging our car overnight costs very little but thats because we have a special EV overnight tariff which most people don't.

Because the EV is charging for several hours at a time. If you are using a ‘granny’ charger (3 pin plug) rather than a proper EV charger it puts a huge strain on the house electrical circuit for an extended time. When you get a proper EV charger installed they an extra breakers and stuff.

The risk of your ICE car catching fire is far greater.

A petrol or diesel engined car does not burn with anything like the intensity of a battery fire, and the fire brigade can sort them out with foam.

Lithium batteries are almost impossible to extinguish, they pretty much have to watch them burn.

FWIW when I had my EV charger fitted I phoned my house insurance company, they told me I hadn’t needed to notify them but they’d make a note on my policy anyway.

I don't know about completely fine, Kia still tell you that a cable with an ICCB is not for everyday use

https://www.kiapartsuk.com/kia-ev-charger-cable-12062-p.asp

Personally while I wouldn't charge an EV if specified on the booking that it was not allowed, I would not be happy at having to go 5 mins away to get it charged.

I echo others, upgrade your insurance and get a proper point put in