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The key word here is "unbelieveably".

This is, of course, entirely doable. The banking industry did it and the airline industry did it. And the automotive industry is working on it. Standards are being hammered out for car to terminal and terminal to hub secure communication. It's just that the hammering is taking a long time as it...

I question that too. The most successful charging network in the world is obviously Tesla's and they created it as a marketing tool - not as a revenue producer. Musk has said that it was never intended to be (it used to be free to all Tesla drivers) and never would be a profit center. And yet...

It doesn't care why the 12V batteries are low. If they are low they are charged as long as there is enough in the traction battery to charge them without endangering the traction battery. But I think the question may be moot as I don't think the 12V outlets are hot when the "ignition" is off.

It's all of the above but the biggest factor is demand. To serve one car at 200 kW means the station must have 200 kW service but to serve 4 at a peak demand of 200kW each simultaneously requires 800 kW service which is obviously 4 times larger and much more expensive. But as 4 cars all drawing...

If your criterion is time then you headline should be "Rivan Charging System Out Performs..." Given the state of the CCS charging system that does not seems logical or possible but I suppose there could be places in the US where the availability, reliabilty, speed and location of the CCS system...

Regen uses the same components as the inverters but at lower current so I wouldn’t worry about it.

Suppose it's people in the top 0.1 %-ile. That's 3.5 million Americans.

No, indeed it isn't. When coasting downhill the vehicle will either speed up or slow down until drag, rolling resistance etc exactly balance m*g*sin(alpha) i.e. the driver doesn't have control of the speed. But if coasting is what you want to do for some reason, have at it.

A 12RES generator will definitely charge the truck. It is a 120/240V single phase generator. I would put in a 14-50R receptacle simply because a 14-50R plug comes with the EVSE supplied by Rivian. Any other receptacle will require some sort of adapter. The 14-50R will need to be wired behind a...

I charge daily from a HPWC using a Lectron mini.

That's 385 Wh/mi. The ABRP default is almost 100 Wh/mi more than that. I've been seeing more like the 385 number but am having trouble believing it.

That represents a loss of a little over 1 kWh - just about the full capacity of a 100 Ah-12V lead acid battery.

That (wear) is the main complaint. As for energy savings I am frankly still in disbelief as to what the trip OD is telling me about the general-purpose mode and am quite happy about that. Plus i paid a lot of bucks for two motors that are never used? Nosir.

The rear wheels can be disconnected via mechanical clutches thus enabling conserve mode. The front wheels cannot so in that sense the answer is "no" but if you ever get into a situation where you need rwd the control system will implement rwd for as long as it is needed and then revert to 4wd as...

That will, in no small measure, be a major determinant of the company's long tern success or failure.

Yes, it does with new Tesla drivers but someone will tell them what the story is and they usually don't do it more than once or twice.

I've seen that too and suspect I saw it on the terminal - not in the truck. This larger number may be what is going into the rectifier in the terminal - not the DC going to the battery, They are paying for the electricity wasted in conversion and probably want you to pay for it too.

There is no CCS here so I don't know what it meant by "CCS adapter". The Lectron adapter under discussion here adapts between the Tesla wand (which handles both AC and DC charging) and the SAE J1772 part of the receptacle on the truck which is limited to AC. A well made adapter signals the...

The Lectron adapter is good for 48A. The rate at which the vehicle will charge is determined by the Tesla HPWC to which it is connected, With Gen 3 HPWC the maximum is 48A if the HPWC was commissioned for 48A. With a Gen 2 the maximum is also 48A even if the HPWC is comissioned for a 100A...