Best Home Charger for Gravity and Rivian?

[mickeyme]

We currently have a Rivian R1S and a Tesla X, which use our Tesla Home Charger. Which was great for a year. But now the charger seems to be having issues and probably needs to be replaced. Which has pushed us into the, "well, if we need to replace the charger maybe it is time to just replace the Tesla..." which brought us to Lucid....

If we are contemplating needing to charge a Rivian and a Gravity, what is the best home charging solution? We probably don't need to charge both at the same time, but it would be interesting if there were a solution that would automatically start charging the second one overnight once the first one is done. I'm not sure if that exists?

Thanks!

 

[hydbob]

Tesla universal charger

 

[DeaneG]

Two charging stations are better than one, the same as two sinks in a primary bath. Locate one near the charge port of each car.
Some charging stations can load-share multiple units on one circuit if necessary - including Tesla's Universal Wall Connector.

 

[Bill AGT]

I think Autel Maxi - 80 Amp is terrific!

 

[Bill AGT]

If you buy an 80 amp charger (not sure the Rivian can take 80 amp level 2) you dont need or I think want 2. Charging 2 vehicles at the same time would be a problem. Can your service handle 160 amp draw - not many can. Even 2 40 amp is a lot if not planned. The 80 amp charger can provide anywhere from 1 to 80 amp and will charge a Lucid in 4 or 5 hours (2 or 3 if you are not too low and going to 80%). Agree, optimum would be two plugs with scheduled switch over but I don't think that exists. But at these kind of times manually switching over should not be a problem. Hope this helps.

 

[johnse]

Several EVSEs have the ability to share a circuit or simply coordinate usage. I have two Tesla Universal (Gen3) wall connectors. They allow either car to charge at 48 A, or both to simultaneously use 24A each. IIRC, this can be set up to share power between up to 6 wall connectors, each with their own limits.

For example, you could have two with full 60/48A service and a third on a 20/16A line (less expensive to run a long circuit, for example). And then could tell the configuration to allow up to a total draw of 60 A. That might be:
* 48/0/0
* 30/30/0
* 44/0/16
* 22/22/16
Etc. (actual splits might be different, and the 30/30/0 split requires both of the "big" chargers be on their own circuit breakers. Otherwise 24/24 is the max split when daisy chained).

There are others out there. I only have experience with Tesla's.