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You can buy this retrofit cable from ChargePoint, to eliminate the need for an adapter at home: https://store.chargepoint.com/product/nacs-cable-kit

That is only rated at 32 amp. ChargePoint sells replacement cables for up to 50A that should work with any charger. https://store.chargepoint.com/product/home-flex-replacement-cable

I see this all the time at Tesla stations in warm weather and the message "limited by charger" always comes up. It happens consistently with my Hummer also, and it tells me the charger is limiting. It is not the truck lying. There can be multiple reasons, one is that many chargers are power...

The problem is that the plug and charge uses a generic Rivian account for payment, they have no personal info in the protocol. And even Rivian has no way to know you have a valid membership at Tesla any way. Ford tried a beta with EA to do this, and it failed, so they never went forward with...

The last part is where the battery cells are being top balanced.

Are your peak events a demand charge? That is what APS in Arizona has. Every month they take the peak usage from 4-7pm weekdays and that gets hit with a $20 per kwh demand charge. So even though I only use about 5% of my power during peak hours, those charges are about 30% of my bill. I...

Not really, none of my 3 EVs ever charge during my peak hours today, so my savings will be zero. Like someone else mentioned, I would rather have a finish by departure time feature, just like my other EVs have.

I recently had my charge limit get set to 54%, completely randomly. But when this happened it would not charge on L2 either. I was at home and it would not charge, so I looked at the settings and found it set to 54%.

They have certainly gotten that way in Arizona. Slightly less congested, but not that great.

My Hummer has frameless windows that move when opening the door and it also has mechanical latches. Yes the indexing is via software, but does not require an electronic latch.

Ford just issued a safety recall for the Mach E due to this issue. But their solution of keeping the HVB connected and supplying 12V does not work for a crash that takes out power. Worst case is this; car is on fire with baby in the back in a car seat and unable to get back into the car to...

I charged my GM vehicle at a RAN in Wickenburg, and it was $0.68/kwh. The PFJ sites in AZ are all around $0.62kwh.

No way to fix it, there is no satellite antenna on the Rivian. Even the streaming service on Rivian, which uses ATT like most other car manufacturers, drops for me with "Poor Internet Connection" messages quite often, in areas with decent cell coverage. Like someone else reported, I drive...

I have not tried this yet on the Rivian for a real trip, but I think if the chargers selected are in the Rivian data base it will. If they are not in the Rivian database, then you may have to select manual preconditioning. I did send an example trip to my Rivian this way that had an Ionna...

I have not seen that issue at EA in a couple of years now. But I actually saw that exact failure at a Tesla station about two years ago as well, it is not unique to EA.

In hot weather, the Tesla stations do get derated, almost always and even for Teslas. It may be even more common with non-Teslas because of the adapters. In cooler weather (<90F) I have not seen this issue much. I have also seen very busy Tesla sites derate, I think the transformers supplying...

You can now manually pre-condition.

I got in my truck today and made Winslow AZ a destination, it has a PFJ charger. Sure enough it does not show up, but the EA station there does. If you do a search for "GM Energy" it will list the PFJ locations with chargers. FYI, you can also do a search for "Ionna" and it will list those...

Rivian simply needs to switch over to use the Google database for chargers. My GM EV has Google natively and it does not miss all these other networks. When you do a charger search in the Rivian nav, it has a little text at the bottom "data provided by Rivian". And Google maps in my GM...

If you have Google maps on your phone, plan your trip there and it will find those chargers. But you will have to manually select the chargers you want to use, it cannot automate stops for Rivian. Then send that trip plan to your Rivian, from Google maps. My Rivian shows Pilot/Flying J...