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Interesting. If it's going to be that inefficient anyway, curious they're not just being as aggressive as before to get the battery warmed up. Maybe the thought is that from fleet data they've noticed relatively short trips and heating the battery doesn't make sense when the truck is just...

Turns out they must be garbage collecting the memory for the climate panel more frequently than I typically use it. If I access the climate panel, then subsequent taps are within 1s and quick enough. It's just the odd first tap of the day or something that winds up being quite a long...

I do, but it's well within the window. Our ToU rates are only expensive from 1p-7p, so I usually allow charging from 2a-12p next day, and I really only set it to start so late so that charging finishes closer to my departure time to keep the battery warmer in the winter.

That sucks. Shame that fleets often don't fit proper tires, but a large swath of the country just got snow that normally doesn't too. The only negative feedback I've heard from our local Amazon drivers about the EDV is that they really need the dual-motor version in the snow, which is...

Obviously...but prior EVs I've owned will pull the same power from the wall that the heater is using so there's no net use from the battery, assuming the EVSE can keep up. In other words, if the vehicle knows the heater is using 5 kW, then pull 5 kW from the wall while it's running and follow...

Even the scheduled version doesn't pull shore power immediately. It seems like they wait until the SoC drops below your set charge limit before they pull shore power...just silly.

This. Latency in the UI has gotten kind of ridiculous. Change tabs/apps, slow AF. Hit the climate button and it takes 2-3s before the climate panel pops up. Used to be much more snappy. Touch sensitivity in the button bar on the bottom isn't fantastic either...maybe the touch targets are...

I showed it to my wife and her immediate reaction was that it was Grimace purple, of McDonald's fame.

The blue accents don't really go with the purple...I'm betting Rivian would do better about that in the design studio as good as they've been with the other colors. Maybe it's wrapped?

Vampire Drain will never completely go away, and I wouldn't expect Gen1 to improve beyond where it is today. Much like early Tesla, Rivian Gear Guard leaves cameras on all the time along with whatever image processing is necessary to detect people or whatever else they decide to trigger...

Parts price actually isn't bad considering the performance vehicle it is. The pads for my former Corvette were around this price. Real question is whether or not Rivian will sell the parts direct to the consumer if I'm going to be forced to use Rivian service when the time comes. So far at...

Coming from the Toyota community, they straight up didn't care...though part of that could just be the number of modded rigs here in Colorado vs elsewhere. But unless they needed to remove mods to do the work, they really didn't care at all. And if it was in the way, they'd ask if you wanted...

Interesting. One outstanding question for a Rivian winch-bumper is where to get power from. Supposedly the early trucks actually have power lugs on the distribution block that were designed for high-current loads. Rivian themselves were supposedly working on one and it appeared on a test mule...

2.26 mi/kWh is not "normal" for cold temps by any means when the battery is basically an ice cube. The Gen1 quad-motor trucks at least used to inefficiently drive the motors to generate heat when the battery was below 50F, notable by motor temps going over 200F and sounding different as well as...

Do you park outside? Look at the battery temperature in the gauge view. If the battery temp is somewhere around 45F or lower then the truck may drive the motors inefficiently to generate heat to warm up the battery. That inefficiency is easily detected by the sound the motors make on the Gen1...

Looks like they *finally* fixed their bug in the app for filtering DCFC stations by power provided. For the longest time the 150+ kW filter actually only showed stations that were >150 kW, which meant that no EA stations were shown at all since they're listed as 150 kW only. I really don't...

Oof, windows rolling up is another miss for use in rain. When the windows roll to the bottom you can unzip them just a little keeping the open gap closer to the fly/overhang allowing less water to get in with wind driven rain.

I said the same as soon as pics came out. There's no way the designer of this thing even considered rain. I had a really nice RTT that I loved and got rid of it because in the rain only one window was covered appropriately by the fly, so it was basically unusable in the rain. But that wasn't...

This take is...wrong. If you charged mostly at Tesla stations then you didn't get full-speed charging performance on the GM platform as that requires 800V charging, which Tesla does not currently have. Rivians get full-speed charging at Tesla SCs because they are 400V class vehicles and I just...

Sounds like you need to get your truck looked at. I've used Highway Assist on my Gen1 for every road trip I've taken. While it could certainly use work it'll never get now than Gen2 is out, it's still damn good on the roads that are actually mapped. My biggest complaints are the random...