Still few enough fast chargers that I have to check their availability before I go (and a crucial EA station is completely inoperable right now! Only one in that area, but I can plan around it now that I know). When Tesla opens up, problem solved.
But man, if the Rivian could hold its charging curve better (200kW for longer) consistently, that would be absolutely great. 5 minutes longer doesn’t seem like much, but even browsing the web, if you got a family of six in the car, 5 minutes of dead time feels a lot longer than it actually is.
Rivian is the textbook example where higher voltage makes sense to get around the 500 A of CCS limitation and other such a huge pack
Plus better thermal design since it gets thermal throttled quite easy, their cooling strategy is the same as Lucid, which doesn’t result in the best charging performance C rate wise
Yup. I have a Rivian.
Still few enough fast chargers that I have to check their availability before I go (and a crucial EA station is completely inoperable right now! Only one in that area, but I can plan around it now that I know). When Tesla opens up, problem solved.
But man, if the Rivian could hold its charging curve better (200kW for longer) consistently, that would be absolutely great. 5 minutes longer doesn’t seem like much, but even browsing the web, if you got a family of six in the car, 5 minutes of dead time feels a lot longer than it actually is.
Rivian is the textbook example where higher voltage makes sense to get around the 500 A of CCS limitation and other such a huge pack
Plus better thermal design since it gets thermal throttled quite easy, their cooling strategy is the same as Lucid, which doesn’t result in the best charging performance C rate wise