Newbie question about responsiveness in accelerating/decelerating

[adaykin]

I recently picked up an R1S launch edition. My previous car was a 2015 nissan rogue. Right off the bat I noticed that if you are going say 30 mph or slower and take your foot off the pedal the vehicle comes to an almost immediate stop. With other cars I've driven if you take your foot off the pedal it will slowly coast and eventually come to a stop. Is this a feature more of a rivian or evs?

I did drive an hyundai ioniq 5 ev as a rental for a few days and don't remember this happening there.

Is it a bad thing for the vehicle to take your foot off the pedal completely until it's almost totally stopped?

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[Dark-Fx]

One pedal driving. Rivian obligates regen.

 

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

Normal operation. You can adjust regen in the settings.

 

[Revelation]

I recently picked up an R1S launch edition. My previous car was a 2015 nissan rogue. Right off the bat I noticed that if you are going say 30 mph or slower and take your foot off the pedal the vehicle comes to an almost immediate stop. With other cars I've driven if you take your foot off the pedal it will slowly coast and eventually come to a stop. Is this a feature more of a rivian or evs?

Yes this is inherit with all EVs that have regenerative breaking. Each manufacture has different levels of regen and usually they have multiple settings where you can have high or low regen.

I did drive an hyundai ioniq 5 ev as a rental for a few days and don't remember this happening there.

It's possible it had a low-regen setting or turned off. I am not familiar enough with that model to know if you can turn it completely off.

Is it a bad thing for the vehicle to take your foot off the pedal completely until it's almost totally stopped?

Nope, just part of the process. You will get used to the one-pedal-driving. In time, you will most likely prefer it and hate going back to ICE vics.

 

[R.I.P.]

Is it a bad thing for the vehicle to take your foot off the pedal completely until it's almost totally stopped?

No.

 

[BeanEW]

This is what people called "one paddle" driving. Most of the EV cars have it for regenerating electricity for a little longer range. Some cars can turn that off but Rivian has two settings, Strong and Normal.

This is something that you can get used to. It is quite smooth and my wife prefers that over my braking.

 

[COdogman]

I think yours might be broken. Have it towed to the service center.

 

[R.I.P.]

I think yours might be broken. Have it towed to the service center.

 

[adaykin]

Thanks for the responses. I think there were paddles on the steering wheel for the ioniq that I drove and those were for regenerative braking. From what I'm gathering, rivian just automatically applies regenerative braking when you slow down.

 

[DuoRivians]

High regen FTW!

 

[Electrified Outdoors]

Instead of burning up your brake pads and wasting energy by turning the power you used to start moving back into useless heat... Regen braking saves your brake pads and puts some of that energy back into the battery to be reused ?

Try to get used to it and enjoy a more efficient driving experience.

 

[Jerk]

I test drove the Ioniq 5 as well and the salesperson had no clue how to turn up the regenerative braking. Once you get used to it, you can’t live without it.

 

[SSteveEV]

Yes, Rivian defaults to automatic regeneration. Its easy to see how it is applied if you check out the drive mode gauges and see the wheels turn green from blue.

Three options:
High, Standard, or Low (low is only in Snow mode)

I still miss coasting, but OPD helpful coming up to red lights.

 

[goldburger]

If you are doing 90 you can do a little coasting for a bit

 

[SSteveEV]

If you are doing 90 you can do a little coasting for a bit

haha Barely though
I was happy when they updated ACC to allow more coasting when you are over the set speed but take your foot off the go fast pedal. Ie when passing on a two lane road and coming back into the correct lane. Used to slam on the regen then.

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