First Rhode Island RAN Site Opens in East Greenwich -- 6 DC fast chargers

[jackofclubs87]

Stopped by the newly opened Rivian chargers in East Greenwich this afternoon. First one in RI, just south off Warwick and right off 95. Worked great. Maxed out at 218 kWh. It's in a plaza with a Starbucks, Chipotle, Texas Roadhouse and a Showcase cinema.
Happy to have a Rivian Charger in RI and Jess than 15 minutes from my house.

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[Tim-in-CA]

That's great (as a former Rhode Islander), but there is nary a single RAN open in So Cal, home to Rivian HQ and a population of ~24 million (according to Alexa). The closest is Barstow (on the way to Vegas) and a planned one in San Bernardino (which has yet to open). I never had an opportunity to use my free RAN charging.

 

[shamoo]

So hear me out...

Another RAN location is awesome. But having one so close to home is pretty useless. I need one in areas in the middle of road trip paths, 150-250 miles away.

At home, I can just charge at home for way cheaper or almost free if you have solar.

 

[jeeden]

About to do a road trip to New England and thought about it for a hot second, but we are going to go our usual way through Hartford and make a stop a Treehouse Brewing on the way. I wish the Hartford one would open

 

[DB-EV]

So hear me out...

Another RAN location is awesome. But having one so close to home is pretty useless. I need one in areas in the middle of road trip paths, 150-250 miles away.

At home, I can just charge at home for way cheaper or almost free if you have solar.

This one is in the middle of a road trip for me from LI to Cape Cod (itself a charging wasteland). There are a fair bit of people who go from NY metro to Cape Code so according to that criteria this is a good one.

Shockingly, it was easier to find good chargers NY to Alabama than NY to Rhode Island.

Very happy with this one. 170 miles in on a 270 trip.

 

[DB-EV]

That's great (as a former Rhode Islander), but there is nary a single RAN open in So Cal, home to Rivian HQ and a population of ~24 million (according to Alexa). The closest is Barstow (on the way to Vegas) and a planned one in San Bernardino (which has yet to open). I never had an opportunity to use my free RAN charging.

Yes, sir, but take a look at a map of third party chargers in this area and where you are. I think there is one ev go 10 minutes out of the way, and then a bad EA charger 40 miles down this corridor.

I haven't checked but as I understand it your neck of the woods is swimming in third party chargers.

Rivian has built almost no chargers on a popular road tripping area in the adirondacks (a park that is like 1/3 of NY states land area). I (stupidly) called them up years ago and said I don't think you need to build chargers there because NY has built. It is probably fine for now. The good news is one of the open Tesla chargers is around Saratoga.

 

[rhodeshow]

That's great (as a former Rhode Islander), but there is nary a single RAN open in So Cal, home to Rivian HQ and a population of ~24 million (according to Alexa). The closest is Barstow (on the way to Vegas) and a planned one in San Bernardino (which has yet to open). I never had an opportunity to use my free RAN charging.

New guy here -- charging at RANs is FREE?? Very stoked to have one in EG then!

 

[kewlasu]

New guy here -- charging at RANs is FREE?? Very stoked to have one in EG then!

It was FREE for it's first year of operation, but now it's not. I wasn't able to use it when it was free then as there were none near or around me until the Freeport and Kittery just opened this week in Maine.

 

[rhodeshow]

It was FREE for it's first year of operation, but now it's not. I wasn't able to use it when it was free then as there were none near or around me until the Freeport and Kittery just opened this week in Maine.

Ah ok, that makes more sense. I was going to say, how did I miss that? And why are they not advertising the the crap out of "charge in our network for free"??

Thanks!

 

[nick26]

Rhode Islander here and I'm excited about this one because we usually go down to Narragansett for a week or 2 and there's no other fast chargers around (aside from the super chargers across the street which weren't an option before). Also there is a great beer/wine store - Savory Grape, and great supermarket - Dave's, across the street (which needs a cross walk).

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