Rivian NACS Adapters begin arriving!

[dduffey]

In other words (forgot the /s), skipping the first 60% is just as likely as having shipped to 40% ... i.e. it's simply not reasonably true.

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[Rizzian]

...OK maybe the guy sif that he "thinks" they had gotten to about the 1st 40% ... maybe he meant the emails not shipped. Either way, the guy at the SC seemed to think that supplying everyone from day one reservation to people who purchased this week would only take about 3 months. I was skeptical myself. I've been holding off on buying a 3rd party adaptor, with no trips planned for the near future and especially if I'm going to have the "official" Rivian unit shipped in the next 2 months, but if it's going to be more like 6, 8 or 12+ months, I need to know.

BTW, my R1S Serial number was in the neighborhood of 44k, but IDK if that means there are 44k Rivians on the road total or just 44k R1S's (not including any R1Ts). If 44k is all of us, that would call for shipping about 750 adaptors a day for 3 months to get them all out (weekdays only).

 

[Cycliste]

One intern is putting an adapter into a box, hand addressing each box, affixing postage, and driving the boxes to the post office each business day. So about 45 per day or 1000/month

 

[Redline]

...OK maybe the guy sif that he "thinks" they had gotten to about the 1st 40% ... maybe he meant the emails not shipped. Either way, the guy at the SC seemed to think that supplying everyone from day one reservation to people who purchased this week would only take about 3 months. I was skeptical myself. I've been holding off on buying a 3rd party adaptor, with no trips planned for the near future and especially if I'm going to have the "official" Rivian unit shipped in the next 2 months, but if it's going to be more like 6, 8 or 12+ months, I need to know.

BTW, my R1S Serial number was in the neighborhood of 44k, but IDK if that means there are 44k Rivians on the road total or just 44k R1S's (not including any R1Ts). If 44k is all of us, that would call for shipping about 750 adaptors a day for 3 months to get them all out (weekdays only).

You might as well order an A2Z.

 

[Rizzian]

One intern is putting an adapter into a box

Hey, at least it's not a union shop yet... then it would be one apprentice intern, one Sr. intern, their supervisor, and an inspector churning out about 20 a day.

 

[Rizzian]

You might as well order an A2Z

True... A2Z's look to be backed up to mid-June and folks are selling theirs on Ebay for $400. Hope we get an influx of used, reasonably priced A2Z adapters in the Rvian groups as people start receiving their new Rivian adaptors.

 

[Redline]

3-4 week lead time for them.

 

[UnsungZero_OldTimeAdMan]

Supercharger rates are about 11¢ apart between Teslas and non-Teslas. Here near Rivian HQ, the difference between non-membership Supercharger and EA Pass+ ($7/mo) is around 2¢ peak and 4¢ off-peak. Tesla membership ($12.99/mo pre-tax) yields around 20% discount. Don’t need to be a math wizard to see, given these factors, Tesla is on par and arguably better than EA—especially when, half a mile apart, one has 16 chargers and mostly unused throughout the day, while the other has only 6 and is constantly busy until past midnight with one or two chargers often out of action. After 100~150 kWh/mo the Supercharger membership pays for itself.

Moot to argue over rates because what holds true for one area/person isn't necessarily so for another. Just open each network’s apps and look up rates on your nearby sites, without committing a dime or signing up for any subscriptions. Home charging isn’t always cheaper either. Some PG&E customers pay, at home, as much as what the public chargers cost.

 

[SPDL.Rivian]

Does anyone have 2 adapters they are willing to sell? I am driving two Rivians (R1S and R1T), both pulling trailers, from Texas to Canada in June. Not having the adapters will make an already painful trip even more painful.

 

[Ngkgb]

Does anyone have 2 adapters they are willing to sell? I am driving two Rivians (R1S and R1T), both pulling trailers, from Texas to Canada in June. Not having the adapters will make an already painful trip even more painful.

Someone just posted that they have an adapter available to borrow in Austin.

 

[SPDL.Rivian]

Thank you! I am in Austin - please forward me the post if you can.

 

[DeanB1452]

Thank you! I am in Austin - please forward me the post if you can.

Austin A2Z adapter available to borrow | Rivian Forum - R1T R1S R2 R3 News, Specs, Models, RIVN Stock -- Rivianforums.com

 

[R1Tom]

Anybody get new emails asking for addresses? Seems the first batch went out of less than 1k of them and that has been it. Full stall....

 

[GogglesPisano]

Anybody get new emails asking for addresses? Seems the first batch went out of less than 1k of them and that has been it. Full stall....

I don't think if anybody knows if they were tied somehow to the Tesla supercharger team being laid off. Could be they were responsible for handling PO's from other OEMs, or other things.

I missed it if it was posted though, did anybody confirm that these were indeed being made for/distributed by Tesla or was each OEM going through an approved vendor or something?

 

[Jiji]

Hey, at least it's not a union shop yet... then it would be one apprentice intern, one Sr. intern, their supervisor, and an inspector churning out about 20 a day.

I doubt there are any Rivian interns, especially dealing with adapters. Which is probably good for those of us waiting for the adapters to dribble out as they arrive from Tesla.

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