As I understand it, it is not allowed to accept money from your guests for charging their electric cars in your home. This causes hosts to not offer this service, which could have been a great time and money saver for the guests. It can be very expensive for the hosts if the guests charge their car in the expensive hours. For me there is often a factor of more than 10 on the kWh price between different hours of the same day. I would love to make this information available to my guests and ask them to reimburse me for what they actually spend (only on car charging - of course not other facilities). I would also love to be able to pay my host for charging at their home at night instead of spending part of my vacation waiting at a supercharger away from the home.
Welcome to the Forum, and thank you for this suggestion. I will of course pass this onto the team as it is a subject that comes up from time to time. I completely understand why you would want to request this.
Agree - I wouldn’t pay for a guests’s petrol so why would I pay to charge their car?
My guests can either pay me the cost (which is simple to determine) or use an EV charger that’s in a public space that they pay for.
I had a problem staying in Almeria Spain just two weeks ago. Arriving on a very hot day to a 4 bed house with solar panels I turned in the air-conditioning and cooled the house down. The owner 2000 miles away and staying in my home, then sent me a text message and a graph of the electricity used and said to turn it off. So the rest of the holiday I used it hardly at all and kept windows and doors open far more often.
I felt to some degree that that was an invasion of privacy.
I would have happily paid for the additional power. It’s somewhat dishonest to advertise AC and then badger guests when they use it because you can see the use in real time.