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Road tripping in multiple cars is the same use case.

If you have someone you hate it'd be fun to put their contact information in the form. Don't do that because it's wrong and could maybe be traced back to you. But it would be fun.

riViAn'S inFoTAiNmAiNT iS so GooD wE dOn't NEed CArPlaY!!1

Mercedes charging hardware is great. There's no reason to choose Tesla over that. Especially if it's cheaper than Tesla. It's important on any road trip that you have the adapters to charge it at both level 2 and DC fast charging stations.

Contact one that advertises EV chargers. They'll either have you take photos of the panel and ask some questions or come out. Either way they'll give you a more accurate idea of what your options are than uninformed AI.

The sensors are a backup to your eyes. They’re not there to be your primary means of safe backing!

FWIW the Rivian charger is actually made by Lite-On. Yes that same Lite-On you also know from computer power supplies and other computery things!

It 100% depends on your electric utility. In MA my electric company requires you enroll both the EVSE and your car to get the discounts and rebates. https://east-sf.eversource.com/residential/save-money-energy/clean-energy-options/electric-vehicles/ev-charger-managed-charging They manage it...

The reason for wifi and other niceties in the EVSE is because you can do things that can't be done with a dumb charger. For example if your electric utility offers time of use discounts or special rates for EV charging they'll need you to have a smarter EVSE. Search (with your favorite search...

There is no benefit to the Rivian EVSE. In fact if anything it’s worse since I can’t take advantage of my utility’s discount program. I got it for free with my referral credits and wish I’d just bought a Wallbox or something else.

I love my Unifi setup but this is hysterical. And absolutely based on a kernel of truth.

Rivian doesn’t allow others to write apps for the infotainment system. Which is why we need CarPlay.

Well, one could say that Rivian should have a public API, use OAuth for security, and offer the ability to scope the issued token down to a limited set of permission.

Are you by chance using Home Assistant and the Rivian integration or the Rivolt thing? I'm using the former and am pretty sure Rivian is either detecting it and blocking the account, or those sorts of tools polling is causing me to exceed the allowed rate limits. When I have it happen I have...

I agreed with you up to this point. But I think that this is a terrible idea. How many of those app developers will create an app just for Rivian? And among those that do how much investment will it get compared to the mainline phone app? My bet is near zero and zero respectively.

Apple Maps is just one an application on your iPhone. You can use any nav app you like for navigation - Google Maps, Waze, ABRP, or a bunch of others. On a Rivian you have any map service you like. As long as you like Rivian's. If you don't then too bad - you have to put your phone in a holder...

They don't have to think of EVPlay as a competitor. Their lawyers could simply decide there's a liability thing and tell their developers to figure out a way to detect it. How they go about doing that is obviously an open question - the EVPlay guy reverse engineered what the pins do but I don't...

He knows. He's lying. Because the company wants that to be the message. The Decoder interviewer did a piss poor job calling it out. But that was probably part of the ground rules of getting the interview in the first place.

The Apple or Android ecosystem benefit is even bigger than just the 20 years. Apple made the iPhone + iOS + CarPlay, but then there's an innumerable number (millions?) of developers building iOS apps, and adding CarPlay support to their apps is "simple" (in the grand scheme of things). What's...

I considered EVSportline's, EVPlay's, and a couple of other products. EVSportLine is another display sitting on top of the existing screen; frankly it makes the car look like you're sitting at mission control and in an accident is a dangerous glass projectile. EVPlay is a clever solution that...