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[NWCamper]

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[Mark_AZR1T]

Can anyone translate for me?

 

[Siguy90]

Can anyone translate for me?

Basically if you are going to be buying a level 2 charging station for your home make sure you check your local utility company or and local/state offers for discounted chargers or for rebates. The higher amp ones with fancy smart tech get pretty expensive.

I had my charger installed last year and was able to claim 30% of the charger + installation fees by an electrician as tax credits but I believe that program ended last year.

 

[Gshenderson]

I just got a juice box 40 amp that plugs into a four prong dryer outlet served by a 50 amp circuit.

I am getting 21.7 miles an hour on a charge. This is pretty fantastic.

My local utility gave a $500 discount on the charger.

By way of background, we installed the dryer outlet back in 2018 when we got a Tesla model 3. At that point in time it was cheaper to buy a second cable for the car then to install a charger. That's worked all fine and good but when I got the truck and tried to adapt from the Tesla mobile cable to Rivian connection, I could only get 10 to 12 miles per hour charge. The Tesla would always do 16 miles per hour.

I took the rivian mobile cable and found that I would get about 16 MI per hour plugged into the outlet. When I used a whatever that connector is to Tesla and plugged it into the Tesla it would get 16 so there was no change.

I purchased a Tesla to Jay whatever connector. I also got one that was rated at 48 amps that I'm returning.

I guess I'm just posting this so folks know to check their local utility because you can probably get a charger for less money than it cost to buy an additional cable or an adapter.

Going Jay whatever to Tesla adapter is like 70 bucks but going Tesla to whatever the truck needs is like 200.

Cheers

Seems high for a 40 amp charger on a 50 amp circuit. Is the truck in Conserve drive mode? I get about 22 mph pulling 48 amps on a 60 amp circuit via the Rivian wall charger with the truck in All-purpose mode. You might be overloading that circuit which could eventually lead to the breaker tripping or worse. You may want to consider lowering the max amperage the truck will draw to 40 amps.

 

[CommodoreAmiga]

It might be cheaper to go J1776 (jay whatever) to tesla than the other way around. It seems to me the Rivian does better on a J1776 charger than a tesla with adapter.

Us folks rockin' the 80k electric truck are looking to save a few bucks figuring out the charge situation...madness.

The Juice box was the same cost as a tesla adapter - J1776 from Telsa.

J1772, fwiw.

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