When driving in extreme heat expect range to drop ~20% from what it would do in mild weather.
I have found driving at night during hot days makes more sense. Perhaps others agree?
Here’s the situation for those interested.
Left San Diego heading to Santa Fe, NM with 100% charge. The original plan was to do a partial charge in Yuma and then full charge in Gila Bend with a Rivian Network Charger (highly recommended)
After 30 minutes trying to get the Electrify America...
Here’s my checklist when running out of range and miles to go before next charging station:
1) Conserve Mode
2) A/C OFF
3) Fan OFF
4) Radio OFF
5) Tuck in side mirrors.
6) Slow to 50 mph max speed
7) Reduce screen brightness to minimum
8) unplug/discontinue phone charging, etc.
9) Pray and think...
They didn’t share any cost figures with me, but they did share that it was 20 hours of labor plus parts. Also, a friend of mine shared the cost to do similar work on a Merc is $9k to $11k
Vin 9xxxx R1S
Like others, I was getting the “service suspension system soon” warning. The vehicle was not handling bumps in the road very well and was going into turtle mode at least once a week.
The service center took in the car saying they would be able to get to it in a couple of days and...
You bring up some interesting points. I do think there is a good chance the AC is overcharged from what everyone has said. Once I get it into be serviced, I will report back.
A few times the AC would simply stop cooling the air at all. I have run into this before (different cars) where the AC...
Drove from San Diego to Santa Fe in my R1S which took me through Phoenix at 3pm.
1) A/C on Max Recirculate, lowest temp
2) Seat Cooling on high
3) Wearing t-shirt, shorts, flippy floppies
4) Ice water in Yeti
The drive was miserable. Heat from glass roof overpowered everything and I was...
I have had this exact issue twice this week. Soft reset once and sleep mode the second time fixed it… but did it? The suspension seems much more wobbly than it was before the update. For now, the vehicle is back to operating properly, but a couple more times and it will be a trip to service...