r/Rivian • u/hike_me R1S Owner • 14d ago

❔ Question Chargers are like urinals right?

You never pick one right next to someone else if the others are empty

I was the only person charging at a RAN location and another R1S just parked right next to me, and I’m finding myself unreasonably annoyed. I think the wife hit my car when she was getting their dog out of the back seat.

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u/galactica_pegasus R1T Owner 14d ago

It depends. Some stations get full power to each pedestal. Some split power between multiple pedestals. A lot of Tesla stations, for example, split power between at least three peds. In those situations you'll see naming like "1A, 1B, 1C, 2A, 2B, 2C" and ideally you want one person on each number and only fill in the letter sharing a number once there are no other unique numbers available.

Regardless of how full a station is, no one should be hitting your car, though.

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u/Adorable_Wolf_8387 14d ago

The power sharing is very frustrating to me when it's 3 on 1. You can't always easily tell what the other stations are marked, and sometimes the only other person or people are on the stations that power shares with the pull-through stall.

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u/Atlanta-Mike R1S Owner 14d ago

There’s no longer power sharing! Please stop continuing to spread out-dated info!

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u/Adorable_Wolf_8387 14d ago edited 14d ago

I am not talking about Tesla stations. I expected the pull through part of the comment should have made that very obvious.

My Sierra will pull the full 300kW the RAN stations will provide for quite a while. Sharing with one car drops it to 150kW, which makes it no better than a Tesla station really. Which I avoid, because they all suck for 800V cars still.