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Is charging electric car at holiday house "theft"?
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this post was submitted on 10 Aug 2023
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Better not charge your phone or laptop either then 🙄
A smartphone battery is about 4,000mAh a Tesla Model 3 is about 62kWh
One thing is not like another
Yeah you're comparing Amps to Watts, apples to oranges
4Ah at 5 volts is 20 watt hours, or 1/3100th of a Tesla battery.
You’re absolutely right. I’ll let you do the maths
A smartphone battery is usually operating at around 3.7V, so a 4500mAh cell would give you about 17Wh.
Oh no, oh no, it's a few pence worth of electricity. Screeching noises THIEF!! HOW DARE YOU USE THE INCLUDED UTILITIES
According to my quick calculations- my current home tariff is 31p per kilowatt hour
A Tesla model 3 has a 62kWh - so about £19 to recharge. If I’m staying there a couple of weeks and intend to drive heavily that would mount up. I’d definitely check with the house owner as a courtesy
Air conditioning is usually 55 kWh per day. Electric furnaces are 25 kWh per day. Going to check with them before you use that too?
Air conditioning isn't generally used in the UK, and no way would it take 55kWh a day to bring one of our houses a few degrees down. Most UK households use less than 10kWh a day total.
There’s absolutely no way that this home owner in North Wales would have aircon.
But use of a built in appliance is not the same as running a cable out to power something that is likely to double the household’s normal usage. Just ask.
It's exactly the same except larger, unless you think the car is somehow pulling more than the house can give, which isn't how that works like, at all.
The size is exactly what matters. I think we can all agree that filling up a 5,000 gallon water tank with tap water from a vacation home isn't acceptable use.
So the only question is at what point becomes the use too much. A single car might seem harmless but what if it's a group of 4 all arriving with their own car, charging it at the home.
Clarifying what's acceptable and what isn't, is the right decision.
It’s about £19 to completely recharge the Tesla. A fraction of a penny to recharge the phone. It’s polite to ask