bendrumin
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- First Name
- Ben
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- Salesforce Developer
Midwest seems to be under a dome
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THANK YOU FOR POSTING. I have a late April trip to Stowe. This will be my charge stop.Per the app, Holyoke, MA is now open. Nine stalls. New England is coming together!
9 spots!THANK YOU FOR POSTING. I have a late April trip to Stowe. This will be my charge stop.
Not on their website yet, so there's clearly still a lag between app and website.Per the app, Holyoke, MA is now open. Nine stalls. New England is coming together!
Not my experience at all. I've used the R chargers on numerous occasions (Boone, Charlotte, Greenville, Whittier) and it has always been the closest Tesla plug-and-play experience that a non-Tesla can have. (I drive a model Y on my biz trips.) Must have been because it is a new station getting up to speed.So, I charged at the Newburgh NY location. TLDR: When they get the quirks worked out it will be amazing.
Separately, I have AT 20 (snow tires right now), and was tracking in conserve - 129 kw in I am at 318.5 miles, admittedly in pretty ideal weather, but that included going from about sea level, up to 2,500 feet, and back down. I believe the large pack from my Launch Edition has between 130 and 131 kw usable. EPA rated 270 miles (haha). I love the under promise, over deliver.
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My experience: Wasted 20-30 minutes going through resets and changing my payment information. Then the tech got Rivian to do some kind of reset on the charger end. Then, there was amazement, plugged in around 40% state of charge immediately charged at 203k (520 miles per hour), held to 180, and as this was just a test (I did not need the range), I stopped in 7 minutes, at 23.9 plus kw, so like 45-50 miles in 6 minutes! Pretty sweet.
For anyone using the charger, 1A and 1B could not be 'seen' by Rivian (the first two I tried), so I would avoid those two. I switched to 2B, they finally reset it on their end, and boom, easy charge. Before that they made me:
1. Change payment method in app
2. Reset car
3. Reset my display.
I expect steps 1-3 were irrelevant. You have to get your service tech to tell them to check on the backend if you have an issue, which causes them to send some kind of reset.
The one major disappointing part is that I almost never have failures charging, including EA and Tesla magic dock. Oh well. It has only been live for two days.
Agree with this (and tried to say that). It seems like at least at this point there was a comm issue on 1a and 1b.Not my experience at all. I've used the R chargers on numerous occasions (Boone, Charlotte, Greenville, Whittier) and it has always been the closest Tesla plug-and-play experience that a non-Tesla can have. (I drive a model Y on my biz trips.) Must have been because it is a new station getting up to speed.
So freaking annoyingMidwest seems to be under a dome
FWIW I don't think Magic Dock stations are included, at least the one in Moab isn't.Not on their website yet, so there's clearly still a lag between app and website.
Random comment(s) about the website map: They really need to enable filters. They added all of the Tesla superchargers that are usable with an adapter or Magic Dock, and it's cluttered the map if you just want to see the RAN sites. Also getting more and more cluttered with Waypoint sites. Oh, and the Waypoint part of the map is woefully inaccurate. There are a ton of Waypoint chargers that aren't on there.
Weird. They should be including those, but you're right that it looks like they're currently just pulling the "NACS" Tesla chargers rather than both those and the "available to other EVs" ones as well. They are at least in the Rivian app and in vehicle nav, which is what matters the most anyway.FWIW I don't think Magic Dock stations are included, at least the one in Moab isn't.
Yeah I noticed it yesterday and had the same thought.Weird. They should be including those, but you're right that it looks like they're currently just pulling the "NACS" Tesla chargers rather than both those and the "available to other EVs" ones as well. They are at least in the Rivian app and in vehicle nav, which is what matters the most anyway.
That's a good idea but right now they probably don't want to because there are some months when they don't open up any. You can also check fastcharger.info and filter on RAN to see new ones that are under construction and open ones.I kinda wish Rivian would send out a monthly email with the new stations they have added, and are active.