Rivian Charging at Tesla Supercharger!

Couple updates...I got confirmation the Ford adapter is the same sku as the Rivian adapter. And regards to finding chargers it's already built-in to the Tesla nav but on the web you can find them here: www.tesla.com/findus?v=2&bounds=33.000658951224814…

We are so excited for this transition and so glad we could help out with your first NACS charge! Can't wait to see even more EV variety at Superchargers! - Liv

As a 2021 Tesla Model 3 LR owner, I am in support of Tesla Superchargers opening up to CCS1 port owners and future native NACS/J3400 port owners. My only concern is many CCS1 EVs have their port located in such a way that two spaces will be taken up in most cases in order for them to charge. I feel non-Tesla vehicles should update their future production of vehicles to have their port in a more compatible location. There aren't very many non-Tesla vehicles on the road right now. This is the time to make the change. There are many V2 and V3 Superchargers. It's a win-win-win-win (Tesla Owners, Non-Tesla Owners, auto-manufactures, and Tesla through the increase in usage and installations of the Supercharger network). Rivian, lets go! Put your future R1S/R1T/R2/R3 NACS ports on the front right or rear left. The reason RJ gave about going NACS but still having the port in an incompatible location for Supercharging was that existing customers who have home Level 2 charging may not be able to plug their vehicles in if the port moves is short-sighted. Unless they have 6-8ft cables, it should be no problem to plug in at home with a regular length Level 2 cable. Most are 16-24ft.

The Tesla adapter does a handshake and communicates with an on-board temperature sensor, bit if it can't communicate you may be limited to 150 or 125kw, so for some it may not be that big of an issue. Bolt owners for example won't even notice. As a Tesla owner, welcome to the Super Charger network! I hope this makes EV adoption easier and can't wait to see NACS ports on Rivians!

The biggest question I had, you answered... which is if you had to do something extra (asside from the adapter) to charge. The answer is no. Not like you had to enable something on an app on a per-charging session, or authoriz a payment type each time you charge. I am happy that it works as seemless as it does for a Tesla owner.

Coooool! That was nice of Liv and Patrick to let you use their collection of adapters! High five to all three of you! I hope my EV will get the green light soon —just in case I drive somewhere that only has Superchargers within range.

Yea for MachE Vlog~ Also for Rivian too

The adapter makes Ben's trips to Phoenix super easy. No more stressing about Quartzsite with the giant 84-stall V3 Supercharger.

5:30 I hope that Rivian owners do their best efforts so they dont take up two charging stalls to charge their car.

Very cool! I placed a deposit on a Rivian R2 last week and while that’ll come with NACS built in, I’m glad to see Rivians being able to charge at supercharger stations now. Thanks for the great video Ben! More EVs, hybrids, and plug in hybrids are exactly what we need for a more sustainable future. Let’s go! 🙌🏾

Heck ya thanks for doing this for us!

i think the ford adapter is the same that rivian provides

This is epic. I'm reviewing the EV9 on my channel now. But impressed with Rivian!!

Always enjoy your posts! Quick question and I may have missed it…. How did you pay for these 2 specific charging sessions with the two adapters? Does the Rivian communicate directly with the Tesla SC and knows it’s you? Thanks again

SHEEEESH. Nice BEN!

Very good that this is happening but i am very concerned about the cable issue Tesla in a statement asked the Car makers to locate the charging port to Back left on new vehicles to make it easy and seemless for the costumers and the Rivian CEO in a Video i saw said that it shouldnt be Teslas "monopoly" on the charging port location but i dont understand that. They were so good to open up the Network they build over a Decade for free and still there are trying to never mention Tesla or even thanking them and then saying we will be putting our Charging Port the way we want instead of making it easy for the costumer they just want to fuck up Tesla.

Welcome to the supercharger club! My next vehicle won’t be a Tesla now, Rivian R3X here I come!

Big W for EV adapters. Thanks Tesla.

Please note that Tesla has opened oven 15,000 ports/stalls in North America, not the 2,000 plus mentioned here. Tesla overall has over 25,000 stalls in North America. They are slowing opening up more and more V3 stations as the transition goes along. They want to make sure that usually busy sites do not overburden their Tesla owners and create confrontational situations. What's truly needed for non-Teslas drivers are those remote locations where it's a charging desert for non-Tesla drivers or they have charger anxiety with half of the only 4 CCS stalls there usually not working.

Will the Rivian navigation eventually get support to show Tesla superchargers when routing far distances? Or are you having to use the Tesla app for that?