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Even if it takes a few years....progress.
Well there are CCS to Tesla adapters that run $450 and take up to 250kW...so I'd gladly pay that to use the SC network since I paid $150 just to use my Tesla L2 charger.
Definitely good news for some remote locations. For what it’s worth I have gone on multiple extended road trips in my R1T and I have had no trouble with charging infrastructure, including relying on obscure local DC ‘fast’ chargers.
It's interesting because I watched an outofspec video on this last night and Kyle was in Austria using the tesla network. Like you mentioned the charger was retrofitted with a ccs cable as well, but as they pointed out, tesla cables tend to be quite short, which is fine for rivian and some other vehicles due to their port location, but others like the lightning, etron etc would find them mostly unusable. Still, a win for all as it gives people more options, even at a bit of a premium.
I wonder about the cable and the side of the vehicle that some Tesla SC stations are set up for. In Baker CA the stations are set up a pull thru for 2 vehicles with the cable set up for the right left rear of the vehicle. A Rivian would need to pull in the opposite way an potentially block a stall for a much longer charge than a Tesla would need.
You were lucky, It’s not hype. I just took a 1,500 round trip from South Florida to Atlanta over the July 4th weekend. I primarily used EA chargers and it was a nightmare. Every single EA charging station had at least 25% or 30% of their chargers unavailable. On my way up north, I stopped in Orlando, and 2 out of the six chargers were down. On the way back, a few days later, I stopped at the same station and 5 or the 6 chargers were down. I called up EA and was told the chargers could not be reset, and will be unavailable for two weeks for ”upgrades.” This was the July 4th weekend! The connection process was mostly finicky for me, and on two occasions, I got free charging. Florida Power and Light has some charging stations on the Florida Turnpike, but the R1T would not precondition for those. Not sure why. Yes, things will get better, but its pretty dismal right now in my neck of the woods.
EVGo seems to be the better network, when it's available I would use that.
