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What I hope they do is offer a choice of FWD or RWD in conserve mode. I suppose ideally for efficiency it’s FWD, but a RWD selection would be good (fun and more efficient than driving all 4s and also lighten the front wheel tire wear). With the new updates I finally tried conserve over the...

You know he’s been doing his job when the order guide turns into a 30 page options catalog and you’re able to more than 2x the base price of any trim in the process. ??‍♂️

Never mind, I just tried it on my R1T and Rivian’s not using a standard OBDII comms protocol. I came across another thread that is about trying to figure out comms and no one seems to have had luck sniffing any data that Rivian might be putting out via even the supported Rivian branded OBDII to...

Isn’t it easier to just plug in an OBDII scanner and read the actual SoC when RivianOS says it’s fully charged? On our old PHEV I could do that and was able to track battery life. Over 6 yrs of use and 76k miles it had 12% loss. Fully charged it would read 88% via OBD. Most days it was getting...

I’ve been researching recurrentauto.com while considering whether or not I’d like to open up our Rivian for them to ping directly (3x a day) to gather data. In exchange they provide battery health data about our Rivian (relative I’m sure), and other projections about it’s EV performance. It’s an...

And ACC while towing. Our 2017 Volvo maintained ACC while towing. It only disabled backup park assist sensors (kept the the side and front) and Pilot Assist. Actually, Pilot Assist was a dramatically better version than Highway Assist+ that didn’t require pre-mapped routes nor cloud access to...

CarPlay is a bigger omission. So many apps and features that would greatly enhance adventuring, driving, charging, and overall traveling experience. It would free Rivian up to focus on car specific SW improvements like trailer assist, Driver+, tow efficiency and tow range estimation, drivetrain...

I‘d read about that phenomenon and was worried about it going into our first roadtrip. We didn’t experience that at all. The only time it was concerning was with the one leg I mentioned that the indicated range started dropping once we got further into the forest where elevation gently increased...

Drag equation is a function of the speed squared (v^2). It explains how the faster you go, the more energy (squared) is required to offset drag. We recently completed a nice mini vacation towing our R-Pod over 1200 miles. This was our first trip and towing experience with our R1T (I have over...

I hope they’re taking a broad sample to improve how it estimates towing range in addition to taking a better read of efficiency (battery discharge under load). There are so many variables that impact any vehicle (gas, diesel, or electric) only EVs just as highly efficient ICE vehicles tend to be...

The computer calculated efficiency on the fly is a good indication and it did point to the revised estimated range likely being correct. Its running efficiency and projected range aligned. When efficiency was trending to 1 or less mi/kWhr it coincided with terrible range and vice versa. In our...

Even subtle differences in conditions will dramatically affect/alter range. We recently towed our R-Pod (about 4000 lbs during this trip - I didn’t get a proper weigh in during this trip, just pulled through a highway patrol/DOT truck weigh in) over a 1200 mile roadtrip. This was our first...

Wait you can order just the wheels and not a complete tire and wheel set like shown in the Gear Shop?! That improves the options; I’ll rethink how I get ready for winter if that’s the case.