I do wonder if Rivian will be the true winner of the Cybertruck hype
- cybertruck was new, Exciting, different as announced when there were no EV pickups. Years later, it’s not going so well
- Ford announced an EV 150 for regular people, but delivered something average for a beyond premium price that no one could afford (and marked way up by dealers)
- Rivian delivered something futuristic but still fairly normal, for the price range and features they announced. R2 will make or break
I currently own a a Tesla Model Y. When the time comes to replace it a Rivian will be on the short list, above anything Tesla currently offers. Access to the supercharger network is a big selling point IMHO.
Confirm CarPlay and Android Auto please thanks
They and Tesla are the holdouts. GM only recently killed phone mirroring but those two never had it.
I will not buy from any of them.
Kinda want one… but way outta my price range.
The R2 is to be announced in a week or two. It is supposed to be a more reasonably priced platform.
Does this mean that Rivian doesn’t have to build out their own network?
They never “had” to, since they were already using the open standard of the time. Electrify America, for example, is CCS by default. I figure they’ll continue expanding their own network either way.
Tesla stands to earn billions of dollars a year by opening U.S. charging stations to drivers of Ford and other EVs.
I guess this means Elon Musk is going to own most of the new style gas stations across the United States and maybe the world. This will give him unprecedented power, he will be able to turn off all the “gas stations” if he felt like it.
I’m pretty sure he built most of these charging stations using taxpayer dollars.
My guess is that they will keep doing what they’ve been doing. Building charging networks in areas for outdoor adventuring, where charging options are limited.
So I see in the Tesla app that it asks which vehicle you have and if you have the NACS adapter.
I wonder if this will be used to determine supercharger availability. Like if a vehicle has the plug on the front-drivers side or rear-passenger side, count it as using two chargers so that the available stall count is accurate.
It doesn’t work right. I have an ID.4 and even though my local charger is listed on the Tesla site as being CCS compatible with an adapter, selecting my car and claiming I have an adapter still fails to make the site show up in the listings.
The car has a CCS port and has been tested to work with the magic dock by testers, so it’s compatible. The app needs work.
VW is strangely silent on this, which is making me think that my next car will not be a VW. That, and Ford got Apple Maps EV routing working and I still can’t get it to see my car.
I did some poking around. It looks like charging stations are actually limited by brand for now.
When I changed my brand from Ford to anything else, NACS-compatible Superchargers didn’t show up.
That doesn’t really make sense considering it’s a charging standard and the entire point of a standard is to avoid problems like this. Hopefully it just means I need a software update for the car.
Which VW has been very silent about. I’d feel better if they explained what the issue is and what needs to be done to fix it, even if they say it will take time to fix.
