Not all Tesla Charging Stations Available to Rivians??

[Kdblondie]

I always have issues with the Rivian Navigation. It always routes me to the RAN chargers even if its out of the way. I also go in and remove RAN and put Tesla and it still tries to send me to RAN

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[Polar]

I always have issues with the Rivian Navigation. It always routes me to the RAN chargers even if its out of the way. I also go in and remove RAN and put Tesla and it still tries to send me to RAN

Check your exclusion settings on both your in car NAV and on your app NAV

 

[Davethadog]

Easiest way I’ve found to determine whether it’ll let you charge is to use the Tesla app and have the proper car selected in your profile. Seems to me like the chargers in sparsely populated areas with few other options are still limited to Tesla. I can’t say I blame them for that decisions they did build them first for their customers.

 

[NC-Rivian]

Easiest way I’ve found to determine whether it’ll let you charge is to use the Tesla app and have the proper car selected in your profile. Seems to me like the chargers in sparsely populated areas with few other options are still limited to Tesla. I can’t say I blame them for that decisions they did build them first for their customers.

Only v3 and v4 SC can be used for the Rivian. V2 SC aren’t compatible. All v2 SC won’t show up and some of the V3 in high traffic areas are excluded but most of the other v3 SC are open for us to use.

 

[VSG]

Seems to me like the chargers in sparsely populated areas with few other options are still limited to Tesla.

The chargers in sparsely populated areas tend to be V1/V2 chargers, which will never be available for non-Teslas. Try driving through Wyoming with your Rivian - there's only 1 open Tesla charger in the entire state, and without CCS chargers you'll never make it. And it's not just WY, there are many regions like this where there are no open Tesla chargers in areas bigger than most eastern states.

I think the important point is that if you have a Tesla and have experience using the Tesla network, you can't just assume that your experience is a good guide for taking a trip with your Rivian. You could be counting on using that one Tesla station you always use when driving your Tesla, and when you drive up in your Rivian and can't use it and have only a few percent battery left, it's going to be a problem.

So regardless of the Tesla stations opening up, you need to do some prior planning for your trip to ensure that the chargers you want to use are actually available to Rivians.

V3 in high traffic areas are excluded

It is absolutely not true that only high traffic areas are excluded. I don't think anybody outside Tesla knows why some are excluded and why some are not, but there are more than just a few of these V3 chargers that are unavailable.

For example, there's a brand-new V3 Supercharger in a town near me. It was installed in the past two months. It's 10 miles from any major road, and I've never seen it crowded. I'm not even sure why Tesla built it because in the middle of suburbia with no through traffic everyone charges at home anyway - the only people using this are taking advantage of their free supercharging benefits. This station can't be bringing in any money at all. Yet it is only open to Teslas, not to Rivians or Fords or anyone else.

 

[RivAW]

I took a trip from the Bay Area to Tahoe (Incline Village) this past weekend. I used my A2Z adapter on the road trip but couldn't use it at the Tesla chargers in Incline? The location didn't show up on the Tesla app or on Rivian. Any idea why? That was my main reason for buying the adapter so I didn't have to drive to Truckee to charge and the only Evgo in town has been broken for over a year!

Use the Tesla app or your Rivian navigation. Both will differentiate between Tesla Supercharger locations that are a) not available to other EVs, b) available and have magicdock, or c) available only to those with an adapter.
This is not new information and owners should educate themselves before causing themselves an inconvenience or emergency

 

[ddimit]

I always have issues with the Rivian Navigation. It always routes me to the RAN chargers even if its out of the way. I also go in and remove RAN and put Tesla and it still tries to send me to RAN

This!!! I made my first trip to SOcal a couple of weeks ago via 99 instead of 5 and the Rivian NAV kept wanting me to detour to I5 to RAN charge even when I deselected the RAN Network. I gave up and just used Tesla App

 

[beatle]

As others have mentioned, V3/V4 superchargers will work, and V2 will not (I don't think there are any V1s still out there, but maybe). V2 superchargers are limited to 150kw. On Plugshare you can filter those out by limiting your search to anything over 150kw.

ABRP will also smartly determine which stations you can use with a NACS adapter.

 

[DaveA]

If planning on PlugShare, just move minimum kWh to 200…and all V1 and V2 chargers won’t show.

 

[emoore]

As others have mentioned, V3/V4 superchargers will work, and V2 will not (I don't think there are any V1s still out there, but maybe). V2 superchargers are limited to 150kw. On Plugshare you can filter those out by limiting your search to anything over 150kw.

ABRP will also smartly determine which stations you can use with a NACS adapter.

That’s what I do but the issue is that some V3 are still Tesla only so you have to double check with the Rivian or Tesla app.

 

[beatle]

Is that true? I had not heard that anywhere, though I'm also new around here. I am also surprised that ABRP would not have the same data as the Rivian app would since ABRP is owned by Rivian. Perhaps it does and I have just not tried planning a route that may involve a v3 not open to EVs with a NACS adapter.

The Tesla "find us" map has the ability to view "superchargers available to NACS" which I assumed was all v3 superchargers without a magic dock:

https://www.tesla.com/findus

 

[SwampNut]

For those saying it’s confusing, that’s an understatement. It’s a damn mess.

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