Rivian has added areas of suitable Tesla Superchargers to its navigation app, permitting R1S and R1T drivers to extra simply discover the Superchargers Tesla is opening as much as EVs from different producers.
The interface provides Tesla Supercharger areas each to the in-vehicle navigation and the cell app. Rivian supplied this excerpt (under) from the official replace notes to Inexperienced Automobile Studies, clarifying that you just additionally should obtain the Tesla app.
Rivian replace notes on Tesla Supercharger community in navigation
This addition is a part of Rivian software program launch 2023.10.00, though that launch remains to be listed as an “internal beta” by an unofficial Rivian software program tracker that aggregates over-the-air updates for the automaker’s autos.
Amongst different options, this replace reveals Tesla Supercharger websites with the Mixed Charging Commonplace (CCS) connectors that enable Rivians and plenty of different EVs to cost at them within the navigation app’s charger filters, and this filtering possibility will seem in Rivian’s cell app.
Tesla Supercharger
Tesla final month started opening the Supercharger community to different EVs. It is in no way the complete Supercharger community, however “select” Superchargers open to CCS. It goes each methods—Tesla can be providing a CCS retrofit and an adapter for its autos.
To a point, Tesla’s opening of its community to different EVs is important to assert a few of the infrastructure funds funneled for a $7.5 billion federal EV charging community.
2023 Rivian R1S
Rivian, in the meantime, has conceived its personal charging community as a backcountry counterpart to Tesla Supercharging. The distant areas the place Rivian expects its clients to take their autos for out of doors adventures have not been a precedence for Tesla or the foremost charging networks, giving the corporate a distinct segment to fill that additionally reinforces its branding as a extra rugged class of EV. However given the dimensions of the Supercharger community, it might make sense for Rivian homeowners to need to put it to use.
