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1.) Rivian isn't in a position to control the supply and inflate used values. They need to sell trucks and SUVs to make money, they don't make anything off the used market so there's no chance they are artificially throttling supply. 2.) There are TONS of trucks on the market that out price...

I do this same thing. Beyond frustrating to stand outside your $90k truck like an idiot waiting for it to unlock. The PAAK never works and never has. It even regularly happens with the fob which is ridiculous. The whole power door handle thing is a solution looking for a problem. They...

Because any company can incorporate that connector into their systems, not just Tesla. I'd imagine companies need to agree to a variety of terms regardless of plug config for access to a certain charging network. Things like communications, certificates, security, identification, etc. 1.)...

Correct but once SAE issues a public standard around the NACS, it becomes a public thing that Tesla does not have ownership of. Anyone can make a NACS plug, you can probably make one in your garage if you want. Making it work at a Tesla charger is why a company needs to sign a deal with Tesla...

Enlighten me then, where does it say that?

Tesla would disagree with that... A patent is only as good as the holder's ability/willingness to fight it. If their pledge is to not pursue anything then that patent is basically meaningless. https://www.tesla.com/blog/opening-north-american-charging-standard All the design specs...

This is a common IEC standard used across a ton of industries, nothing wrong with this. They have open sourced it and have said they are willing to make it a public standard.

It would be orders of magnitude easier to replace charger cables with longer ones than it would be to add a length of cable to an adapter...which is likely what they will do.

We have the same guide!

Not a chance I'd be on board with sharing coolant with a public charger with questionable service history. The battery and connection cooling is a current problem that may or may not actually be a hardware problem rather than SW cooling strategy. Cooling the cable, adapter, and charge...

Who knows, but adding built in cooling to the DC ports on a CCS plug is going to impact all the native NACS cars too. It would have to be on the adapter side.

Even if that were true, that wouldn't be applicable to an adapter and would require updating all the cables/plugs on all the superchargers out there. :)

You wouldn't want to have the fluid path travel through the adapter directly otherwise there are opportunities for leaking and residual coolant. What you'd want is for the fluid path to travel close to the connection points so that it can pull heat through the adapter housing while keeping the...

The adapter could be designed to utilize the cooling built into the cable and NACS plug to cool the adapter itself. This isn't an insurmountable challenge.

This is a hell of a feature that you should definitely propose to Rivian via a guide or whatever means they have for taking feedback.

This isn't needed at all. The vehicle already communicates with the charger to authenticate itself and start the charge, the adapter can be a dumb one that just has the right wiring inside.

This is dependent on state laws. Most states allow for charging at a per kWh rate but some states mandate a certain cost per kWh so then they charge for time at a speed.

I hope that this pushes Rivian to pivot the RAN away from normal cities to more underserved and remote areas. The supercharger network will cover most highways and travelled routes in the country but it would be great to have good charging at national parks, off road areas, and other...

Having this issue too and getting ready for ceramic coating. So is the solution to just clean as well as you can using dawn dish soap for the trim and then hitting it with the Cerakote?

I have the Reaction film and it's great! The ceramic function is good but not great, I plan on ceramic coating the whole truck shortly. Doing DIY ceramic coating isn't hard provided the paint is properly prepped. If you don't need to machine polish, this too is pretty simple and can be done...