I was at the Tesla Supercharger in Quincy, WA yesterday. Guess what, an Audi pulled up and started charging. I said the same thing as you, never heard of that, but there it was.
If you have an adaptor, make sure you have your nav configured correctly to allow stations that require an adaptor. The ones you listed have MagicDock adaptors built in.
I don't think I need to configure anything on my Rivian to show Tesla superchargers available to me, do I? have seen navigation display message that I need an adapter.
Yes, locations I mentioned do have the NACS adapter built-in aka Magic Dock.
I always use my Tesla app (own Teslas also) to double check what is available for my Rivian.
From the Tesla app Charge my other EV-->map. PIcked up one arbitrarily. for each one shown on the map, Tesla app always will tell me if I need an adapter. Example below:
To be fair, the people who were really moving the infrastructure mission forward are still working in the Supercharger Division, only the deadwood and oil/auto industry plants were fired. The problem is, it's often difficult to tell who is pushing the mission forward and who is trying to throw a wrench in the works. It's a good thing Musk acted so timely, that he discovered the sickness of the team rose up into the leadership positions so soon, and thus needed drastic action, lest Superchargers become as unreliable and unusable as the other charge networks. It's what sets the Supercharger network apart from the rest of the field.
This is the part that's the responsibility of the Rivian Software Engineering teams. There should be a menu selection so you can configure what kind of chargers show up (ie, have a NACS adapter or not).
That's the part that Tesla Software Engineering teams are responsible for.
"Magic Dock" is not a euphemism, it's an actual descriptor of Superchargers that have built-in CCS adapters, vs. a Supercharger that either requires you have your own CCS adapter for it, or that is not available for EVs with CCS charge ports.
Sweet! Let's hope the trend continues! Because without people keeping the driving force behind DCFC infrastructure buildout strong, it will trend towards entropy and die out. We are not yet to the point where profit motive is all it takes to drive DCFC expansion. It's not a given. Because there is still a lot more profit motive in stopping it.Sure, not all Teslas SCs are NACS-enabled, but the quite a few that Rivians can use is a game changer.
From my Tesla app. selecting "Charge my other EV," then zooming out to the the Wester U.S. to see what is available. These are the Tesla chargers open to NACS.
Yes, it's been apparent since at least 2017 that hydrogen cars were dead in the water. That they were just oil companies attempt to keep their foot in the transport industry with dirty hydrogen. And that even that wasn't going to work. None of this is a surprise, hydrogen is too expensive, even when using dirty hydrogen. The infrastructure costs alone will make anyone's eyes water and call uncle.
Yep, it's like two different worlds out there, the CCS world and the NACS world. That is why every major carmaker is switching to NACS next year. But even this transition will fail to fix the problem if DCFC network operators keep operating in the same fashion. If they don't get a sense of urgency behind fixing holes in their networks, over-utilization of certain locations, and reliability issues.
Time of use pricing for DCFC is an important tool to spreading out network load over time which is what leads to being able to expand the network without huge amounts of new capital. What gets put in the ground must pay for itself, and that hard to do if a charger is only utilized during the busiest 20% of the day. By having variable pricing network operators can more fully utilize their infrastructure in a manner that it pays for itself and allows continued expansion without constant inputs of new investment capital. A business that cannot expand on its own merits is not a successful business.
Do you really think Musk would forgo profit out of the goodness of his cold calculating heart for the benefit of other EV brands?
By default, your vehicle nav will not direct you to a Tesla supercharger unless it's a magic dock. You have to open up the filters in the navigation app and make sure it will allow navigation to chargers that require an adaptor. I'm not talking about the Tesla app or Rivian app, I'm talking about the navigation on your vehicle's center screen itself.
We know Tesla is manufacturing the adapters to make CCS ports compatible with NACS DCFC'ers and selling them at cost (zero net profit). That's a fact.
That's false.
