It’s funny too Tesla owners were unable to tell me what their preferred rate was. The one person who could dug through is car’s menus to find it for me. At least it was cheap enough to be worth the stop.
I think its a little overblown to compare needing an adapter for NACS with an adapter for CCS. I had a Tesla for five years and drove all the way from the northwest to south Florida and back two different times. Never needed a CCS adapter and never purchased one. Most Tesla drivers do not have a CCS adapter. There are far more superchargers than CCS here and the coverage of Superchargers is way beyond CCS in most of the country.
I switched to Rivian for many reasons, but simply put, the charging situation is not as good as it was with Tesla. Once you have NACS most people will not need CCS.
Well over half are open to Rivian, about 16,000 out of 27,000. That basically means that superchargers represent the biggest network of chargers for Rivian today, especially when you take into account the uptime record of other networks. It's not all superchargers, but it is a substantial amount that does make a big difference.
I would not have moved from Tesla to Rivian without the supercharger network. I know many people get by without superchargers in their area. Try driving across the country, or any really extensive roadtrip, without superchargers. It can be done, but it's a giant pain the in the rear.
Is it? Everything public has said 2025 with a strong suggestion that it could be later in 2025.
Once adapters are readily available -- and 3rd party ones basically are already -- there's very minimal benefit either way to having native J3400 vs. CCS. Right now and for the foreseeable future you will need an adapter either way.
