Rivian opening to Tesla soon?

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These four Rivian DC chargers look ready for opening soon, and they’re the new design with cables ready for other CCS vehicles. Rivian said in April they’d be opening to other brands “later this year” and… it’s later this year. Any clues as to a date? Rivians can use a lot of superchargers now, so it’s only fair

These are in Gardiner, Montana. The nearest Tesla supercharger is 80 miles away.

https://rivian.com/newsroom/article/rivian-showcases-next-generation-charger-designed-for-all-evs

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[Strykerwsu]

For those who know, SOON

 

[brur]

I want to know, some nice new rivian chargers next to some old 150s in Sedona

 

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Rivian said in April they’d be opening to other brands “later this year” and… it’s later this year. Any clues as to a date?

This article was just published this morning.

Rivian Adventure Network open to other cars soon, will be ‘awesome’ says CEO
Jameson Dow | Nov 23 2024 - 7:00 am PT

Scaringe told us that he was just reviewing the software that non-Rivian customers will use and that “it’s gonna be awesome.” So it sounds like there’s a plan to offer a separate app experience for non-Rivian owners, likely through the Rivian app (thus ballooning the number of apps that every EV owner needs to have… we need to do something about that).

To this end, Rivian did purchase A Better Route Planner (ABRP) last June, one of the more popular charge planning apps for EVs. This has surely been a factor in Rivian’s app development.

Scaringe told us that RAN has now expanded to a total of 91 sites and around 700 chargers – which he says is around 4% of the size of Tesla’s Supercharger network, but that RAN has maintained high uptime as it scales. Scaringe said that if you would have asked him 6-7 years ago, he would have expected more successful third-party charging companies by now., but that now, out of all the charging networks out there, there are “only two great networks – and only one great scaled network,” namely Tesla Superchargers.

The others, which aren’t owned by an EV manufacturer, just aren’t as good. RAN and Tesla have ~99% uptime, where Scaringe said that other networks have sub-70% or even sub-50% uptime (this may be an underestimate – or maybe not – but the point stands that every EV driver can tell you Tesla is the gold standard here).

 

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Soon™️ has been the answer until they provide further updates.

 

[HaulingAss]

Why is Rivian still installing chargers with CCS ports? Can't they see where this is going?

CCS is already a minority standard in N. America and that will only become more true each passing year.

 

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Why is Rivian still installing chargers with CCS ports? Can't they see where this is going?

CCS is already a minority standard in N. America and that will only become more true each passing year.

The article said the new chargers would/could be hardware updated with NACS at some point. All their older cars would need an adapter then though

 

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The article said the new chargers would/could be hardware updated with NACS at some point. All their older cars would need an adapter then though

Like all other manufacturers, older and currently built cars will still have CCS ports, and newer cars (2025+) will have J3400/NACS. Noone is retrofitting that I've heard on the cars. Some chargers but I bet that is very slow.

R2 as an example is supposedly putting the NACS in a Tesla Supercharger more compatible location. Announced early Aug 2024.

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