Rivian Joins Forces with Tesla, Embracing Their Charging Standard for EVs

Re:Rivian Joins Forces with Tesla, Embracing Their Charging ... by drewg123 on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @08:35PM (#36412787)

When the 350KW chargers are online and working, which is apparently not often, which is why this move to NACS is happening. Only Tesla is motivated to run a reliable network. The other problem with 350KW CCS chargers is that they are often clogged by slower charging cars that can't take advantage of the higher charging rate. Watch one of the "Out Of Spec [Motoring|Reviews|Podcast]" YouTube channels to see examples of this on their EV road trips.

This whole thing reminds me of the ancient unix story of the DoD test of TCP/IP implementations, where they were deciding between the BBN stack and the Berkley (BSD) stack. The result was something like, "The BBN stack starts off much faster, but it crashes often and the machines take so long to reboot, so on average, the BSD stack is faster". Kirk McKusick tells the story far better...

https://www.youtube.com/@OutofSpecMotoring https://www.youtube.com/@OutofSpecReviews https://www.youtube.com/@OutofSpecPodcast

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Re:Rivian Joins Forces with Tesla, Embracing Their Charging ... by recursive on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @08:43PM (#36412846)

I think reliability is a lot more important than speed. I understand the benefits of the SuperChargers. But I was responding to a comment that said this:

> But will the CCS be as fast at charging ?

Of all the problems with CCS, speed isn't really one of them.

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