NACS Adapter Storage in R1T

[Mathme]

In the storage under the rear seat. For what little I plan to use it, that's good enough.

In the Gen 1, the Frunk will get really warm (I had a single wall metal water bottle with 120 degree water in it last summer) and that can impact the ability of the adapter to work.

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[defcon888]

Under the false floor in the frunk, especially if you keep it in the box. Accessible when needed and not rolling around.

That is where I put ours. Some people have bought pelican type case from Harbor Freight and store it in that in the frunk.


Protective case

 

[PeterSK]

Hey y’all. As we are receiving our NACS adapters for charging at Tesla Superchargers, curious if there is a consensus of where to store the vehicle in the truck that makes the most sense. Thanks in advance…JB

It fits nicely in the driver’s door pocked, next to a TeslaTap Mini level 2 adapter. Ready to grab when pulling up to a charger or supercharger.

 

[HokieBird7980]

Center console. Handy when you need it and doesn't bounce around.

 

[mudito]

I got one of those "drawers" that replaces the Camp Speaker. So I store mine (alongside other crap) there so it's super easy to open and pull out without having it rattling somewhere else. Was VERY useful throughout my 3000mi round-trip to South FL

 

[mudito]

Rhode Island Energy is currently charging $0.16387 per kW.

Now, let me tell you how this clock was built.

For the past two years, our home is all-electric with a solar architecture that, during 9 months of the year, give us net credits on power each month. We accept that getting off of fossil fuels was our choice; not to be smug or self-righteous, but out of economics over the increasing cost of heating oil (for home heating and hot water). The solar net credit offsets last year netted us an annual average electric bill of about $40 a month. As opposed to and average of $280 a month for electric + $120 a month for oil (Natural Gas is no available where we live, and we will not have propane) without solar. As I've mentioned before, I am a retiree - living on, more or less, a fixed income, $40 a month for energy is GREAT!

We have taught ourselves things over the course of the past two years on being frugal with the electricity - how to use a clothes line to dry heavy clothing, bedding, etc. when the weather cooperates. How to efficiently use an electric clothes dryer otherwise. Same goes for cooking - planning oven meals that will use no more than an hour of an electric oven (or using the toaster oven for smaller meals). Our home heat and hot water is through heat-pump technology. The home heating is set to 64 degrees.

And we got our first (of a planned two) EV - the Rivian R1T-Large. We had a 50amp circuit installed in the garage and I have a dedicated L2 charger. The charger (even the Rivian L2 charger) will pull no more than 32amps from the panel. Through the charging settings in the R1T, I have it set to pull the MINIMUM of 8amps (sometimes I kick that up to 12 or 16 depending on expected driving needs) during set times of the day to charge (generally late morning to early afternoon when the solar is strongest). But when I look at the solar utilization app. Our home, during charging, is pulling a LOT more power off the grid. Stop the charging through the Rivian app - grid pull goes down. Turn it back on. Grid pull shoots back up. In December, we blew through our entire bank of net-credits and then some.

So... until we get to a positive solar production season (early March), I will drive my R1T over to the Tesla charging station and plug it in, and accept the (so far) $12-$23 a week to bring the battery up to 85% from the 50-64% range. Oh, and the RAN station... THAT was a small fortune to use - $41.60 for an hour of power! The Tesla charging stations have been much cheaper! The last time I used the Tesla station, I was hitting 70kWh of power. The RAN was barely 40. So much for brand loyalty.

We live in Southern New England. DEEP Winter is here - more days under freezing than above. I fully appreciate that I am driving a state-of-the-art computer. Being retired from 36 years in the IT business, I know that large computers , and in the case of the R1T, the batteries, need specific temperature-controlled environments to function, and I am not grousing that the battery range on the R1T, even while garage parked, is impact by the sub-freezing temps. That, too, will change once the temperatures begin to moderate. I kind like that "727 preparing to leave the gate" heater powering up sound it makes when I go to get moving.

So that is how I built my clock.

If you don't have it already, you should then consider the Tesla Charging Membership. I used it just for a month while road-tripping and it saved me ~0.13cents/kWh in average. I spent $13 in the monthly subscription and saved about $197 in energy costs for supercharging.

With 100kWh of charging a month, you should break even (give or take), that's about 180 to 240miles of vehicle usage (depending on your efficiency). If you drive that or more a month, you will benefit from it.

MIND YOU, you can NOT plug-and-charge when using the membership, you have to activate the charger from the app beforehand and then plug the truck in. It took me about 20 secs each time, park, open the app, activate the charger, get off the truck and plug it in.

 

[usofrob]

I made this:

https://www.printables.com/model/1053871-tesla-charging-adapter-dock-for-rivian-center-cons

That looks great! Now can you make some caps to fill in the NACS port opening so things don't fall into there when it's in the center console? Maybe just big enough to fill the port opening with a little handle to pull it out?

 

[RexRemus]

That looks great! Now can you make some caps to fill in the NACS port opening so things don't fall into there when it's in the center console? Maybe just big enough to fill the port opening with a little handle to pull it out?

should be doable... I can take a swing at it at some point

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