Rivian changed the amount of available energy at the bottom of the pack in an update this year, I would absolutely not use information from a video produced before that change in determining how much is left after zero today.
Good lessons thanks for sharing.
Disabling preconditioning is key. I have never seen precondition really save me any time at a level 3 charger. It seems to drain so much energy that you spend any saved time charging back the energy it wasted.
I somewhat agree. Pre-conditioning didn't always made the charging goes faster... but the car, at most times, always displayed the charge point was limiting the charge speed.
When I started, I thought I had plenty of range, by the time I got off the freeway I was driving pretty conservatively. It was a pretty cold/windy night.
You're knowingly getting that close to zero (yes, 10 is close to zero) and you're keeping your speed that high?
It's all about air resistance, y'all. I went 70 in a 70 for most of my trip today, through a mountain pass, and gained 3 miles from the original estimate.
SPEEDING KILLS (your efficiency)
In some areas, the speed limit is 75-80, and going even 70 would make you by far the slowest vehicle on the road, creating a hazard. I experienced this a couple months ago in my Mach-E when I arrived at an EA with 5% remaining (I was even drafting behind a semi most of the way at 70, and was getting *SIGNIFICANTLY* worse efficiency than expected, I should have arrived with 15-20%,) Plugged in, wouldn't start charging. Switched to another stall, same. All four refused to start charging. There was a "municipal" CCS station a few more miles down the interstate (and at this location, the interstate was the only way between them without going dozens of miles out of the way on 55 MPH state highways,) so I got back on the freeway, my navigation yelling at me to stop at the broken EA I just left because I didn't have the range to make it. I went 55, semis honking at me as they blew past at 75+. (When I was drafting behind the 70 MPH semi most of the drive, we didn't pass anybody, ever. Every other semi was going at least 5 MPH faster.) Made it to the municipal station at 1 mile indicated, plugged in and it said 0%.
Good to know. But I hope I don't need to find out for myself.
It's a limit, not a mandate. Stay to the right and ignore the peer pressure, you'll be just fine ?
I've never run any of my EVs low enough to know what typical behavior is, but at least in the Polestar 2 it keeps pulling a significant amount of power back as you approach zero percent. I suspect it's allowing just enough draw to keep the minimum cell voltage above the "do not cross" threshold and will keep allowing that until it basically means zero power available, or you come to a complete stop.
Again, I did. And I was a hazard to other vehicles.
