AIBU to be annoyed my caravan site has banned electric car charging with no warning?

It will 100% be due to people using the standard 3 pin sockets in the vans for charging.

EVs should not be charged this way. In order to charge an ev safely you need to install a dedicated charger.

You could ask the owner of the park if you could install a proper ev charger?

But if youve been charging on a regular socket more fool you.

At the caravan park my friend owns on, hes had private guests charge their EVs from the caravan inside sockets. Bloody cheeky as its a slow charge and ramps up the electric bill, but also a safety hazard as the sockets get really warm.

AFAIK the supplies in most caravan parks are not set up for large loads especially ones being drawn for any length of time. Thats why they are all fitted with gas boilers.

I once charged a PHEV on one of my 'outdoor' 3 pin sockets which got 'interestingly' warm.

This is a situation where I would try and talk face to face with the owner. You’re unlikely to get anywhere with an email. But if you hear them out on what their problem is, they may be open to working out a solution with you.

If you can’t get face to face, get on the phone and speak. You can’t solve problems by writing (the whole legal profession is based on making simple disputes more complicated and charging lots of money to do so). Just ring up, say you got the notification, and ask what’s been going on.

I think since you've only just got the email OP, give it a while and they'll likely install charging points on site, where you can pay using an app.

It sounds a Health and Safety issue to me. They have notified you pretty early in the holiday season. I think it's a reasonable stance to take. If the electrical circuit got overloaded there would be a high risk of fire and if there are gas bottles anywhere around then I'd imagine the threat to lives would potentially be very high.

So the absent caravan owner would get charged for the electricity rather than the car owner I should think.

I'm guessing so they don't have to pay? 🤷‍♂️

Why were they doing that?

They banned it a few months ago at my local Park Dean caravan site too.

The main reason being people were charging their cars from other people's caravans, when the owners weren't there.

Are you just plugging it into the caravan electric 3 pin socket?

Perhaps this is a healthy and safety issue as maybe the caravan electrics are suitable for this type of charging? Too many EVs on charge might overload the system. So rather than have this scenario they've had to say no EV charging now its happening more often.

A place I worked at installed some new machinery and it overloaded the electrics as the whole site was drawing too much current.

Perhaps work with the caravan park and ask them to install an EV charging area.

If you checked and were told you could charge your car before buying the caravan you should be able to argue that that information was something you relied on to make a decision to buy so it would be unreasonable for you now to not be able to do that.

I would send a polite e-mail in response pointing out the above and see what the response is before deciding on your next step.

Do they have a safety concern due to fire risks around vans?

Is the use of a standard plug charger covered by insurance ?

Have you asked why? Is it safety? Or cost? Perhaps arrangements could be come to. If possible they could get tax discounts for installing a EV charger.