Guests Charging Electric Car Without Permission

[Nicola-and-Donal0]

Hello lovely community!

My first time on here.  We have a family staying in our apartment and as soon as they arrived yesterday they started charging their car.  it was plugged in for hours and possibly over night.  They are with us for 3 nights so I'm sure they'll be charging it every day.  We have nothing written down pertaining to charges for this so I guess i'll just let this one go, even though I feel it's super cheeky not to even ask!  My question is, can i build it into our rules that it's disallowed for future guests?  It's impossible to monitor if we allow it but charge for it.  They could be charging over night and we might not be aware or charging when we're not home.  How do other people manage this?  Thanks in advance!

[Kitty-and-Creek0]

@Nicola-and-Donal0 

This is a very different response from the others. A different perspective. Perhaps it will speak to some. 

We are completely off grid. It takes all the power we can make to run the house, the 360' deep well, and keep it all going to expectations.  If someone wants to charge their car, we all may hear the 25KW diesel generator running to do so, at the going price per gallon for delivered diesel, plus wear and tear on the generator which  needs rebuilding after a certain number of hours. If it were possible to charge an EV, we would have one ourselves.

[Wendy329]

I’ve put on my air bnb page that we do not allow guests to use our domestic electric if they have ev cars. But suggest they use the Zap Map app as that shows all charging points on the island I live on. So I presume it’s a worldwide app?

Its working! We’ve still had guests with ev cars, and they all toddle off to the nearest point.

tbh I just don’t get it. Would you pull into a petrol station and sit there with the pump attached to your car for half an hour!!!???? So why do it with an ev!

[Dave1336]

Happened to me for the 1st time.

I'm not happy.

Going to turn off all the outside outlets.

Not like I go to your AirB&B and take the gas can from your shed and fill my car.

[Giovanni1508]

What’s next? Charging people to use a hair drier or charger their phone? Plus, guests are already charged fees like crazy. The service fee. Taxes. Most hosts charge a “cleaning fee”. Rather than adding insult to injury, maybe just let someone charge their car? To fully charge an EV it costs about £5-£10 and I highly doubt the average guest would be able to run up your bill much more than something like keeping the A/C a bit colder than you’d like. Charging using a regular outlet (level 1 charging) is extremely slow and meant for topping off the battery here and there, not sucking down a full charge in a matter of hours. Charging a bunch of fees left and right is the easiest way to make a potential guest skip over your property and go elsewhere that’s all inclusive and with less nickel and dimming. Alternatively, add £2 a day to your listing rate and be done with it. You and your guests will get what you think you’re entitled to. 

[Jim448]

Let them plug in their car. The most they can get from a standard 120-volt outlet is about 1000 watts; leaving it plugged in overnight might take 8 kilowatt-hours of electricity. Here in Vermont, where electricity is expensive, that would cost me $2.08. And they are paying me $250 a night to stay at my place. So I am nice to them. I want them to be happy. I let them plug in.

in fact, we want to encourage people with electric cars to stay with us, and we have an electric car ourselves now. So we installed a Level 2 charger in the garage that can provide 7500 watts, and we let our guests use it. An overnight charge on this device might cost me at most $12. Again, a small price to pay for a feature that attracts nice guests and keeps them happy.

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