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The adapter comment is meant to speak to the least friction, fastest way for everyone who wants to charge on any Tesla Supercharger the ability to charge at them. It says something that the most popular EV brand, Tesla, already has their customers carrying around up to half a dozen adapters (if...

Having to touch every existing Supercharger and add a Magic Dock is a high friction, slow, expensive, “pause all expansion and redo everything they’ve already done” type solution. It would divert manpower and funding toward servicing V3 250kW 480v Superchargers that are up for replacement. No...

that big clicker/button at the top of the CCS handle is the one my wife can’t always free up with her hand. She isn’t frail, she’s just a tiny girl - who probably would be terrible at playing thumb wars.

as a model 3 owner, I’ve never once been worried about isolation of electricity. I have, however, been worried about a CCS charger not working. My wife can’t even operate the CCS chargers. If she can even figure out how to get it to start charging - cables are too big and bulky - she got one...

I’d pay $5-6k more for a NACS R1S.

How can I, as a R1S reservation holder, lobby Rivian to offer NACS? Our family really wants the Tesla experience for our Rivian. With Ford announcement, it looks even more certain the future of CCS is a slow death. Look at it differently; how many well funded elephants in the room are deeply...

What is oil canning

There are great experiences to be had - like an EVGo 350kW station with Autocharge+ enabled 800v vehicle. But there are some truly terrible experiences that are a result of this freedom CCS has provided. There aren’t enough parties trying to make a great experience like that, and even companies...

RAN is capital intensive and there are only so many Rivian’s on the road. Rivian can’t tie up an unnecessarily large percentage of their cash in a charging network that isn’t making them any money.

I don’t know how automotive companies expect non-technical people to use CCS. Tesla takes away the frustrations of payment authorization and such. The apps don’t make it easier for CCS drivers. Like I wouldn’t give my aunt or grandma a CCS vehicle and expect her to be able to figure out how to...

In 2yrs and 38k miles (22%, 8% “other” (CCS) of my charging has been at superchargers) with a Model 3, I’ve never seen a malfunctioning Supercharger. I have been to (1) Supercharger location that was throttled due to local utility. I actually Had an alternative at that location - to use 1 of...

I won’t sugar coat it; CCS charging sucks. Tesla owners have the least friction in owning an EV. That is all their is to it. WIth adapters for CCS, J1772, CHAdeMO, and all the NEMA outlets; they can charge anywhere except a RAN charger. Every other EV has more challenges, generally speaking. A...

Tesla can’t be all that unique. They still break records every quarter. How come they manage, but everyone else is struggling?

Semiconductor industry is going thru a slow down. Fords reporting doesn’t lineup with what semiconductor manufacturers are saying. same for freight shipping. Ports aren’t backed up like they used to be either.

I still stand by Rivian not doing anything wrong at Grayling. It is just Rivian being victim of unreliable CCS tech

We will have to table this discussion for another thread. Closing thought; there are non-Tesla NACS chargers deployed. As a random example, EVgo has them.

Because CCS constantly has issues, whereas NACS doesn’t. I am left to believe there is something inherently flawed with CCS design or spec. Rivian didn’t do anything wrong here, and this is the outcome….

From what I understand, this is why the LFP battery technology is better than the existing designs. Tesla uses it in their Austin built Model Y, and the Model 3 RWD. Our home has LFP batteries to store excess solar. The installers said they can handle a high number of cycles and will experience...

PlugShare shows 5 of 6 are down right now. The CCS curse strikes again. Off-topic, but when they gonna release a CCS 2.0 that improves on all of the issues, and has a smaller connector? Cuz it’s not like Rivian did anything wrong here and we’re looking at a 83% failure rate on a brand new install.

This is interesting. I’m not sure what it says about Rivian. The area has (2) Tesla supercharger locations (effectively an open network for all NACS vehicles, and open to CCS - pending retrofit). There is an EA location in-progress, in addition to a FlyingJ location in-progress. I love seeing...