What regen mode do you use?

[Riviot]

I've been using low since Snow Mode came out. I'm all about touching brakes as little as possible. It doesn't help my wife gets motion sick real easy.

I also used to use engine braking on manuals and motorcycles to idle as low as possible to lights without tapping brakes.

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[Dark-Fx]

I'd set it to "lock up the tires" strength if I could.

 

[Matchbox]

Low when I picked up the vehicle in Atlanta and high ever since I arrived in Charlotte. Seems very intuitive and it gives me no issues. Rarely touch the brakes. under the new energy screen, I seem to get any where from 25% to over 33% regen as compared to total KwHr used in city driving.

 

[COdogman]

I've been using low since Snow Mode came out. I'm all about touching brakes as little as possible. It doesn't help my wife gets motion sick real easy.

I also used to use engine braking on manuals and motorcycles to idle as low as possible to lights without tapping brakes.

I love the one pedal driving so I don't really change it to medium/ low unless the roads are icy. I could definitely see how the High setting would be hard for people who get motion sickness.

 

[mkg3]

Feels like the Rivian's current implications of low regen only kicks in below 40mph. So I have found that leaving on standard regen works the best.

On my Tesla, on a road trip, its always set to low as regen works at all speeds and actually increases the range. Not so on Rivian.

As for driving experience itself, I am not a fan of digital-like on-off feel of high regen on road trips. I have used high on bumper to bumper traffic. That's about it.

Never use brake assist and wished that there was a "roll" mode instead of always on "hold" when comes to stop.

 

[Riviot]

I love the one pedal driving so I don't really change it to medium/ low unless the roads are icy. I could definitely see how the High setting would be hard for people who get motion sickness.

I'm doing one pedal driving too, I just take a greater distance to slow to a stop. Nice and easy, this ain't no bobsled race.

 

[COdogman]

I'm doing one pedal driving too, I just take a greater distance to slow to a stop. Nice and easy, this ain't no bobsled race.

 

[Dark-Fx]

I'm doing one pedal driving too, I just take a greater distance to slow to a stop. Nice and easy, this ain't no bobsled race.

The accelerator isn't an on/off switch, modulate.

 

[bigsky]

AP, regen High always. No friction-brake assist.
Speaking of which, about two miles into each drive, my R1S Gen 1 has religiously started popping up an alert to regen degraded and to use friction brakes.

 

[Erik+]

High only so I can tone my right calf

 

[R1Thor]

High only so I can tone my right calf

Hey uh...you ok?

If that pedal is enough to tone your right calf, your truck is either fighting back...or you're severely emaciated and should probably seek help!

 

[MidnightRivian]

I use high regen and currently my brake pads after 30,000 miles are 1mm less than new.

Rivian shared this information with me when I paid for a full inspection where they found additional items to address under warranty.

 

[UnsungZero_OldTimeAdMan]

Those who are modulation challenged: regular heel raise exercises.

 

[Curtis Novak]

I use to be a regen on high person too, but did some pondering on it and changed to low regen and appears my range has maybe a slight improvement it defiantly has not gotten worse.

My reasoning that caused me to switch and suggest you try it too is...
The amount of kWh added back the the battery with the regen process is a fraction of the kWh used when you accelerate. So if you are using high and it is excessively slowing the car down, then juicing the accelerator to maintain speed you are using more energy for a given trip than you would use if the lower regen allowing the car to coast more which will require less acceleration. I am still a 1 pedal driver rarely touching the break, since my stick shift and motorcycle days. The other thing to remember when you do use the break pedal to slow down, it is still using the regen and not the break pads , unless you really are standing on the breaks hard.
The lower regen rate makes it smoother as you approach a light, you just need to adjust when you disengage the cruise as you roll up to the light. If you need to use the breaks it is still using the regen. The constant battle between high regen excessively slowing the car and juicing the throttle is a loosing battle for kWh if that that matters to you.
Food for thought,
Curtis

 

[Riviot]

The accelerator isn't an on/off switch, modulate.

I'm bad at that, hence the vomitty wife. I switched to low from standard and she's less vomitty.

And before you insinuate,

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