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Count me in!!I know this area would represent a major drive for many, especially those from Texas and folks East of the Mississippi, but this should be one of our Annual Rivunion locations in the first couple of years. There are campgrounds that I will do my best to secure exclusively for us, should people be interested.
EXCELLENT POST DUCKY!! Oh so beautiful!! ?For those people who think this area is desolate, you are correct. But that's part of its allure. It is beautiful and full of wonderful adventures, if people would stop, look, and explore.
???Count me in!!
AJ,Yes, yes I know I'm wasting my time.
But I do want people to understand that ABRP and the other programs can be of great benefit to those trying to learn about BEV.
I promise to waste no more time or bandwidth on this.
Annie,EXCELLENT POST DUCKY!! Oh so beautiful!! ?
Unsurprisingly enough there is a trade association of convenience store owners and unsurprisingly enough they publish a magazine. A couple of years back that magazine had a long article about the benefits of adding charging at your store. The obvious one is that while the cars are charging the owners are inside buying. This is basically the model used with petrol at places like Cumberland Farms, Checkrite, WaWa..... today. There is already quite a bit of charging at convenience stores (Sheetz, WaWa, Checkrite....). I think we are going to expect to have to pay. While it is evidently true that the convenience stores make more money inside than they do at the pumps they still charge for gas. It isn't free to them no more will be electricity.I would really like to see more of this occurring from current gas stations or convenient stores. Get ahead of the demand and stay relevant
https://www.motortrend.com/news/7-eleven-ev-charging/
I don't but can only guess that they will do it the same way that Tesla does. Tesla maintains location and status information in a data base at the mother ship and sends info on the relevant stations to the car over the cell phone network. Real time info is then presented to the driver on the navigation display.Does anybody know how Rivian is planning on integrating up to date charging stations into their infotainment system? Will it be live and show if the station is currently in use or under maintenance?
Start playing with it now so that you will be familiar with it when the truck arrives. It's very useful for newbies in learning what the capabilities of their new BEV will be.Having no full BEV to yet use with ABRP, I'm looking forward to trying it out with several long road trips once the R1T arrives. I'll be curious to see how well it tracks with reality and how it compares to the other route planners I'm hearing and reading about.
ABRP's concept seems solid and, should it's projections mirror my real world experience, it'll be a huge help in the future.
Definitely don't expect it to be free. Only expect prices to increase as demand increases. What I want to see is the gas stations across the country transition as the automobile makers transitionUnsurprisingly enough there is a trade association of convenience store owners and unsurprisingly enough they publish a magazine. A couple of years back that magazine had a long article about the benefits of adding charging at your store. The obvious one is that while the cars are charging the owners are inside buying. This is basically the model used with petrol at places like Cumberland Farms, Checkrite, WaWa..... today. There is already quite a bit of charging at convenience stores (Sheetz, WaWa, Checkrite....). I think we are going to expect to have to pay. While it is evidently true that the convenience stores make more money inside than they do at the pumps they still charge for gas. It isn't free to them no more will be electricity.