Rivian RAN Charging Network ranks tops in reliability, equaling Tesla Superchargers

[BCondrey]

This is not surprising. I have yet to find a RAN stall that isn't working. RAN was never supposed to compete with Tesla at scale. RAN was supposed to fill in the gaps and support adventure locations where Tesla would never go. At least I thought that was the original intent.

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[bigsky]

Typical CR, unrealistic comparison. No other charging network comes even close to the mighty, ubiqiuitous Tesla charging network, full stop.
Sure, I have had no problems charging at a RAN charger, but what good is that when there are only a handful of them and very few and far between. Indeed, I just picked an arbitrary long trip using Rivian website; no RAN charger found, would send me to an EA charger instead.
I know I can go anywhere in the U.S. pretty much, and there will be Tesla chargers along the way when I need them. And they will always be working. Plenty of them along the same trip route I mentioned above.

And Tesla designed the network infrastructure to be plentiful and allegedly with a not-for-profit mission. Whether or not that is true, I do know that Tesla is at least scamming, ripping off EV owners less for charging than anybody else with their absurd, highway-robbery prices, RAN included. Indeed, their wanton greed milking wallets of EV owners with energy prices 7, 8 times the price of energy that ICE drivers pay is grossly shameful.

Reason why I mostly take my beloved Tesla Model S Performance on trips. It has free, gratis Tesla electricity for life. $0.00 spent charging on a 1,400 mile trip through eastern WA, ID, and MT. Ten Tesla charging sessions total. All working, all everywhere. It is so comforting and refreshing to pull up to any Tesla charger on my MS and see the $ meter frozen at $0.00 always. Gracias, Musk!!

 

[Trandall]

Tough crowd.
I don't think CR was implying RAN was equivalent in scale to Supercharger network just comparable in terms of reliability. My belief is that the tiny number of readers who even care enough to know what RAN is will understand the size of the networks are different.
Not that I'm letting Rivian off the hook for relatively slow RAN build-out. I would love to use a RAN charger but I never have because my travels have never taken me past one.
Can we all agree that it's a good thing RAN isn't a tiny AND unreliable network.

 

[SSteveEV]

Tough crowd.
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Can we all agree that it's a good thing RAN isn't a tiny AND unreliable network.

Agreed! Y'all just need to move to Michigan if you want better RAN access.

I'm curious (but not enough to look it up myself) to see if the SC network has been equally reliable now that other brands are linked in or if it has had a harder time scaling to that chaotic mix. I always assumed a primary reason Tesla and Rivian networks were more reliable was starting off working with only their own systems.

 

[Trandall]

Agreed! Y'all just need to move to Michigan if you want better RAN access.

I'm curious (but not enough to look it up myself) to see if the SC network has been equally reliable now that other brands are linked in or if it has had a harder time scaling to that chaotic mix. I always assumed a primary reason Tesla and Rivian networks were more reliable was starting off working with only their own systems.

The crazy thing is that early Tesla's (pre 2106 I think) will not work on DCFC using the NACS connector and CCS J1772 communication protocol.

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