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

[LowFlyingBacon]

Just after some advice because I’m honestly not sure if I’m being unreasonable or not here

last year I inherited some money and purchased a static caravan on a site. It’s perfect to take my ASD kids on holiday because it’s ours and has our stuff, but gives me a break away too! Except I’ve just had an email from the site saying that they’re no longer allowing owners to charge their cars on site. The email was really rude and literally said they’d remove any owners who were caught ignoring the rule. The owner has clearly had an argument with one of the other owners and is kicking off.
But I’ve got an electric car, I checked when I bought the caravan and was told I could charge there as otherwise I’ll have to pay to charge at a petrol station (can’t make it there and back otherwise). I pay for the electricity so it’s not costing the owner anything for me to charge.
is he allowed to just change the rules like this? I own the van, I pay for the electricity, how can he just decide like this? I’m furious, right at the beginning of summer too! It’s not a huge issue, but waiting around at a charging station isn’t easy with my kids, and it will cost so much more than charging it overnight where we are staying.

Electric cars literally come with a lead for plugging into a 3 pin socket. Why would anyone be an idiot for thinking it was safe to use something that came with the car?

(At least our car did, I assume others do as well.)

Probably best to find out why, it's probably because of overloading the electricity if lots of people did it at the same time. Google says about 2.3 kW which is quite high.

Yeah it’s a regular post on the Craig Tara Owners Facebook page, to let specifically owners know that their private renters are charging at the caravan. Normally a cable going from the car in through the window it’s crazy!

Yes but my point being people are charging them without dedicated EV chargers, fast or slow

the safety aspect will be the site’s network on the actual 3 pin charger
it’s like at home you can plug a 3 kw fan heater in to a socket no problem

go and plug a 3 kw fan heater into every socket in your house and switch them all in at the same time the whole lot will go bang
the power draw will be too much

a lot of people simultaneously charging at the same time on 3 pin ping the power draw will be too much for the site’s network

As far as I am aware caravan park insurance doesn’t cover using the granny chargers.

You need a proper socket much like when caravans and lodges have hot tubs installed they are not just plugged into the caravans internal socket it’s a special socket.

Not a haven site as I know they allow proper installed private chargers. I’d assume dean or other smaller companies and private sites.

If the wiring is correct a trip will switch off the overloaded circuit or a fuse will blow. There should be no bangs, no fire and nothing dangerous.

Often on campsites it will blow a whole area.

A risk big area won’t want with the amount of complaints and publicity

Im not familiar with the wiring of fixed caravan sites, but if it can’t cope with a reasonable quantity of 13A loads at the same time, it seems somewhat inadequate. Is it really that bad? What if it’s cold out and a lot of people want to plug in an electric heater? Does the site go dark then also?

I just googled and many static caravans seem to have the same amps as touring caravan hookups which is 16, that's not much. When we are in our touring caravan in the winter I turn down the heater to put the kettle on, just in case it trips. Average house is 100 amps

No but add a lot of electric car charging to that and it will
there if already figured electric heating in when planning the network for the site

They can pretty much just cope. Although lots of caravans now have central heating so that gives some flexibility.

But add a load of ev’s charging that wasn’t expected when the sites were wired up and you’ve got problems.

I can understand why TBH - fire risk, training cables everywhere plus CF who will try and charge off someone else’s unit

you can’t put fuel in your car on site at a caravan site so the rule should be the same for electric vehicles

I understand that, we used to holiday in caravans and you couldn't plug an electric kettle in. But people were being called idiots for using something which came with their car which seems unfair.