The camper's electric. The logbook doesn't blink.

One setting, and the app changes its mind

Every vehicle in Stops & Stays has a fuel type, and electric is one of the three. Pick it once when you set the van up and the app stops talking about diesel at you. The level you record for the vehicle is a charge level. The spending line in your trip charts is labelled charging. The screens that would have asked a diesel owner about fills ask you about charges instead.

Nothing else about logging changes, which is the point. You score the parkup the same way, log the tanks the same way, and put the costs in the same way. The app just stops assuming there is an engine.

The gauge you actually watch

Charge goes in as a percentage when you arrive and again when you leave, in the same place the tanks go. Over a week that gives you the thing an EV camper most wants and most struggles to get: what a night actually costs you in charge, with the heating on, in that weather, on that hill.

The leisure side stays separate, because it is a separate problem. Leisure battery and power bank have their own arrival and departure readings, so what the van used and what the house used never get muddled into one number. Read how the levels work.

Charging is a cost, and it behaves like one

A charge goes in at the price you were charged, in the currency you were charged it. Forty-one euros at an aire in Brittany stays forty-one euros. A charge at home in pounds stays in pounds. No exchange-rate maths at the post, and no converting anything back later.

Electric hookup is its own cost line, separate from charging the vehicle, so a night where you paid the site for the pitch and again for the electricity comes out as two honest numbers rather than one confusing one. The same goes for the tolls, the ferries, the laundry and the elsan. See how costs are logged.

The chargers are often where the signal isn't

Rural chargers have a habit of being in the same places as the good parkups, which is to say places your phone does not enjoy. Logging carries on with no signal at all, and the entry goes into your account on its own once you are back in coverage. More on logging with no signal.

What the season adds up to

Pro turns the charges, fees and crossings you logged into trip summaries: what the trip cost, what it cost per day, and where the money went. For an electric camper that is the number almost nobody has, because the running costs arrive in small amounts from a dozen different apps and networks and none of them add up anywhere. See what trip summaries do.

The same arithmetic is what people living in a van full time are after, electric or not. If the charging, the pitch fees and the gas are household bills rather than holiday spending, the full-timers' page is written for that.

One van electric, one van not

Plenty of people run an EV for the week and something else for the summer. Each vehicle keeps its own profile, its own fuel type and its own figures, so the electric day van and the diesel motorhome never share a total. Set up your vehicles.

What this page is not claiming

Stops & Stays is a logbook, so it records what you tell it. It does not find chargers for you, it does not read your car, and it does not draw charge curves. There are good apps for finding a charger and your car already knows its own state of charge. This is the record of where you went, what it cost and what the stop was like, kept in a form you can still read in five years.

If the overnight arithmetic is what you are here for, the guide on what runs out first, and when covers the habitation side of the same question.