Bit the bullet and bought a 3rd party NACS -> CCS adapter for the Rivian. Given the slow roll out, I can always sell it in the future when my official Tesla made one comes or have a backup if anything happens to one or the other. It has a lot of good early reviews and seems to be well made.

 

so has tesla already allowed rivians to be charged at superchargers?

 

Yup for the last month or so, but Rivian hasn't started shipping the adapters yet. Lots of folks have started using the A2Z one I bought and have had good results

 

look forward to hearing how that goes! are you going to try locally just to test it out?

 

The A2Z will work fine, it meets all the requirements. Some Polestar owners have started buying them in preparation

 

Yeah going to test the local EA and SC to make sure everything works as expected. There have been some issues with Rivian / EA in recent weeks and I just want to make sure I can get it to work when I need it. I've only fast charged a few times and those were with magic dock SCs

High demand though so I probably won't get it for a month

 

well you don't need adapter for EA, right?

my experience with EA has been excellent after the first minute or two of confusion the first time.

 

Did the same thing. My free adapter from Ford is meant to arrive in May, but I've got the A2Z coming any day to tide me over in the meantime if needed.

 

@AMIRZA786 Your FSD update will come after this student driver is done training

 

 

A member sent me a PM asking me what criteria I use when buying cars. I was going to respond back to the PM, but decided to make my response public. There are several types of criteria I use based on who I am buying the vehicle for and its purpose.

1) My personal vehicle
My personal vehicle is used mainly for my work commute and other daily driving. I've always loved performance cars, so my criteria has mostly been power. My first real performance car was an 86 VW GTI. When I could finally afford better cars, I would go for the bigger engines, for example I've owned three Camry's, two of them were V6 (3.0 and 3.3L). My last gasoline powered car was an IS350 Sport. When I went EV, I replaced it with the 2022 Polestar 2, I leased that car 100 percent for its performance. It's efficiency and cost savings are only the frosting. Had I not gone EV, I probably would have bought a GSF, RCF or possibly a BMW M3. So basically, performance is the main criteria for my personal car, and when the lease expires, I'm going to be looking at either a used Model 3 Performance or 2025 Model 3 Ludicrous...or whatever they call it

2) Family/travel Vehicle
This is where efficiency and utility is most important. Thankfully, our 2023 Model Y meets a bunch of criteria: It's roomy, has utility, is reliable, is extremely efficient, and meets my performance criteria. It works for me as both a family car, travel vehicle, and daily commuter. It has 385 HP, yet averages 122 MPGe. I wish there was a minivan version of it, but you can't have everything

3) Wife's commuter
Here I'm mainly looking for efficiency and cost savings. My wife doesn't really care about performance, but thankfully our 2023 Hyundai Ioniq 5 is not only efficient, maint free, but also performs well with its 320 HP dual motors. My wife commute to work is about 30 or 40 miles a day, and it's less than a dollar a day in electricity. The downside is it's a 2-year lease, so next year I'm going to have to find a suitable replacement

So I hope I answered your question on the criteria I use to pick my cars

 

^^ Nice explanation @AMIRZA786!

Have you had a chance to drive the pricey Mercedes EV yet?

How about the Mustang EV?

What's your favorite so far across all the brands so far.

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I've driven as a passenger in an EQS sedan, but have never driven one. Not a big fan of it's looks, nor of the hyper screen. It's also way above my price.

Also not a fan of the Ford Mach-E. I do like the Lightning, which I've driven.

I would say my favorite EV is the Model S, followed by the Model 3 Performance.

For non Tesla EV'S, Hyundai Ioniq 5, followed by the Polestar brand, either P2 or P4.

I also like the BMW i4 and i5, but I don't like their screens. Too much bling, but not a deal breaker.

Keep in mind these are choices for my personal daily commuter

 

I was in NJ last weekend and I kid you not I saw 3 new Fiskers within 5 minutes!

I was in the car with my brother in law going to Lowe’s and he must think I’m nuts. “Oh wow it’s a Fisker!” “Wow! ANOTHER FISKER!” “Good lord, ANOTHER ONE!” Lol

 

Had this sitting in my multiquote and forgot to answer

EA and Rivian don't always play well with each other for some reason. There was a charger caused fire of an R1T a few months back and general connection issues where if the first attempt fails it needs ~5 minutes to try again otherwise both charger and Rivian will be confused. Not always the case, but I don't want to come into a station low and be at the mercy of a bad station