RAN Atlanta is open @ Cumberland Mall (9 charging stations)

[Rknb2000]

FYI, RAN in Atlanta is open! 9 stations at 2860 Cumberland Mall.

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[Autolycus]

FYI, RAN in Atlanta is open! 9 stations.

Great to see! Not a ton of use to me since it's local but too far away to hit up just for a charge, but seeing a 9-charger station is great, as is seeing more and more stations open!

 

[ATL_R1S]

Queue the chorus of angels!

Love to see it, and will really love to see a RAN location in North Georgia and South Georgia.

Blue Ridge would be perfect, as well as Valdosta to round off the popular interstate travel/adventure routes.

 

[Evanr81]

Charged there yesterday pulled 218

 

[Autolycus]

Queue the chorus of angels!

Love to see it, and will really love to see a RAN location in North Georgia and South Georgia.

Blue Ridge would be perfect, as well as Valdosta to round off the popular interstate travel/adventure routes.

The original strategic plan had stations in Commerce and Tifton plus several more in the ATL metro area. Plus Chattanooga, which is almost GA anyway. Also one in Robbinsville, NC.

It'd be really interesting to see how their long-term plans have evolved, but they're still publicly just talking about the first "few hundred" from their original plan, with a different timeline. If the RAN is profitable, as they are projecting it to be, they'll almost certainly fill in more and more stations over time, as Tesla has done.

 

[djjr50]

I find some irony in that an adventure brand has chargers in the mall.

Those curbs must be gnarly...haha!

But this is good! My wife may never see anything unpaved outside of a grass field.

 

[Autolycus]

I find some irony in that an adventure brand has chargers in the mall.

Those curbs must be gnarly...haha!

But this is good! My wife may never see anything unpaved outside of a grass field.

Gotta get TO the adventure before you can have the adventure! This one is fairly well positioned for travel through ATL, very close to the intersection of the perimeter (I285) and I75 northbound out heading out of town. (or southbound arriving into town). They'll definitely need more in the ATL metro area to cover the different major routes into and out of town each direction, but it's a start.

 

[moosetags]

I find some irony in that an adventure brand has chargers in the mall.

Those curbs must be gnarly...haha!

But this is good! My wife may never see anything unpaved outside of a grass field.

I tend to agree. I had always thought that Rivian would place their RAN Chargers in more remote areas that are underserved by everyone else. A mall in a downtown big city hardly seems adventurous, at least in an adventure vehicle way.

Brian

 

[djjr50]

I tend to agree. I had always thought that Rivian would place their RAN Chargers in more remote areas that are underserved by everyone else. A mall in a downtown big city hardly seems adventurous, at least in an adventure vehicle way.

Brian

That is what I believed they said they would do...focus on the parks and places people would end up where there isnt a charger. Part of that assumption was that, I believe, they figured EA and others would get you TO the entry of the off-road/adventure destination.

But I welcome one here in Jax, FL using this logic (putting them in the city to get you to other places).

 

[DuoRivians]

If RANs are to be profit centers, Rivian should install them at high volume places and just ditch the previous notion of having them only in “adventure” settings

 

[McBogey]

Building out the GA region now makes sense for many reasons. But with the NACS migration, would love to be in the room where Rivian is strategizing how/where to go with RAN next. Has to start shifting to align with selling R2 vehicles at this point.

 

[moosetags]

That is what I believed they said they would do...focus on the parks and places people would end up where there isnt a charger. Part of that assumption was that, I believe, they figured EA and others would get you TO the entry of the off-road/adventure destination.

But I welcome one here in Jax, FL using this logic (putting them in the city to get you to other places).

I believe that this is about this to become a fact with the inclusion of the Tesla Superchargers into the overall EV charging system.

Brian

 

[robertrivian]

Charged there yesterday pulled 218

I pulled 205 at the highest today at 10:30, just me at the time. Went from 22% to 91% with 97kWh in 52 minutes.

 

[izgoy]

Great to see! Not a ton of use to me since it's local but too far away to hit up just for a charge, but seeing a 9-charger station is great, as is seeing more and more stations open!

It's along I-75 and I-285, so people can use it going North/South and Southwest/Northeast through Atlanta. Actually, it's a pretty darn good location to be along so many Interstate routes.

 

[Autolycus]

It's along I-75 and I-285, so people can use it going North/South and Southwest/Northeast through Atlanta. Actually, it's a pretty darn good location to be along so many Interstate routes.

oh, I completely agree that it's a good spot in general. I live in Roswell, so it's too far for me to use as a local charging option, but too close to me to be useful for travel. And that's fine. Any new station that might be useful for anybody is a good location. Even the ones in Michigan (looks at the Count.

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