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My R2 was towed earlier today due to charging issues at a Tesla Supercharger. I was on the road around 120 miles away from home and was limited with the amount of charging options around me. I had just picked up the R2 yesterday so only had it for less than 24 hours and this was my first attempt at charging it. I pulled up to a Tesla Supercharger and the first attempt it started to charge ok (I used the Tesla app to initiate the charge) and then about 10-15% in it gave me a charge error just out of the blue. I tried to re-initiate again with the Tesla app but I got the same error immediately as it started to charge. So then I tried to initiate via plug and charge just through Rivian, same error.
At this point I tried another stall at the same SC with the same results. I then called Rivian customer service while on my way to another SC (the only other one that was available in the town I was in). They had me troubleshoot by doing soft and hard resets to the vehicle. I tried charging again at the 2nd SC and still had the same results. The rep even had me try to initiate the charge via the Rivian app and again the same result. Because all the other charging options required an adapter (which I hadn't gotten yet since I just picked up the car yesterday) I was pretty much stranded. Rivian towed it since there was nothing more I could do.
One thing that I didn't think about until now was that I had smelled a burning rubber smell coming from the HVAC while the first charge was happening and I thought maybe it was the air outside or the HVAC so I turned off air recirculation and it the smell went away. Shortly after is actually when the error came up for the charging stopping and not working. I'm wondering now if something burned or something electrical got fried? I don't know.
Crazy day for me though.
I saw David Vaught posted this video earlier on Youtube highlighting an issue that I also experienced while driving between the two SC's highlighted here in his video where some sensor literally just keep going off and I thought the car was going haywire:
So crazy that someone else had the same issue but I guess these are the early issues of this car thus far. Curious if anyone else has had anything similar. Will find out more info on my R2 soon hopefully by Monday/Tuesday since they're closed tomorrow.
At this point I tried another stall at the same SC with the same results. I then called Rivian customer service while on my way to another SC (the only other one that was available in the town I was in). They had me troubleshoot by doing soft and hard resets to the vehicle. I tried charging again at the 2nd SC and still had the same results. The rep even had me try to initiate the charge via the Rivian app and again the same result. Because all the other charging options required an adapter (which I hadn't gotten yet since I just picked up the car yesterday) I was pretty much stranded. Rivian towed it since there was nothing more I could do.
One thing that I didn't think about until now was that I had smelled a burning rubber smell coming from the HVAC while the first charge was happening and I thought maybe it was the air outside or the HVAC so I turned off air recirculation and it the smell went away. Shortly after is actually when the error came up for the charging stopping and not working. I'm wondering now if something burned or something electrical got fried? I don't know.
Crazy day for me though.
I saw David Vaught posted this video earlier on Youtube highlighting an issue that I also experienced while driving between the two SC's highlighted here in his video where some sensor literally just keep going off and I thought the car was going haywire:
So crazy that someone else had the same issue but I guess these are the early issues of this car thus far. Curious if anyone else has had anything similar. Will find out more info on my R2 soon hopefully by Monday/Tuesday since they're closed tomorrow.
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