If only Rivian worries less about cartoons and wildness life style, and get 100% behind peopleās digital life. Less about seamless experience more about drivers real life experience! If you take care of drivers, car sale will take care of itself.
To have CarPlay should never be about to compete with Tesla system. Itās simply a portal to your phone so you donāt have to fiddle with it while driving. You know vast amount of realtime info on your phone: texts and calls you blocked, group texts, google map coordinates friends just sent...
I did a trip in October to test if I can make it without charging. I did.
Update NY to mid coast Maine
2026 R1S dual max performance
Range wheels with EPA 410 miles range.
OEM Pirelli 22ā tires at 45 psi on the road.
Outside temperature mid 60s with little wind.
Elevation of route 80 ft to 1725...
Pricing is highly regional I guess. In New England area except for Vermont (.59), all other RAN stations are .45 - .47 for daytime Rivian drivers rate.
Glad itās worked out for you. I think the screen youāre talking about is usually called instrument display. Heads-up display usually refers to transparent projection onto windshield.
Technically the key card is similar to the room cards you get at hotels, based on NFC. If you lose one the front desk just reprogram one for you at no cost. Charging it for $80 is not an honest practice and will not make your business profitable.
Iāve always felt awkward to take two spots. But today I drove my R1S to a supercharger V3 to do a test to see if possible to charge without taking two spots. YES it absolutely doable. Just carefully move to top right corner. Thatās it. See pictures.
I wonder if phantom drain will become less after Connect+ expires. If so, itās one good reason not to subscribe. My 2026 dual max averages daily parked loss about 1.8 kWh, which is over 1% of 140 kWh battery, for doing nothing.
Owning 2026 R1S for almost two months I still have trouble finding a fail safe way to open/close doors, frunk. I donāt like proximity so itās off. The only dependable way is to open app to touch commands but itās least desirable for me.
I like to touch dimple on handle to open/close. Only 20%...
I too have rarely had issues with EA in my two years free charging with Hyundai Ioniq 5 covering almost 60k miles! But I do hear bad stories a lot online. My biggest complaint about EA is too few charging stalls per location. It makes road planning very tricky trying to avoid those often...
Today I drove my R1S gen2 to Electrify America charge station to test two scenarios: 1. Plug & Charge without touching any thing. 2. Using EA app in iPhone to initiate charging before plugging in so i can use membership discount. Iām happy to report here that both methods went without a hitch...
I think we should get paid by using autonomy+ for all the data that is collected to train their LLM for further development of full autonomy in future.
Yes it worked with my Grisl-E mini charger too! After it started charging I then turned schedule back on which stopped charging and resumed successfully at scheduled time again.
A free and robust unmapped Smart Cruise Control + Lane Centering is what we need to relieve tedium in driving. Let paid Full Atonomy development be kept under wraps where it belongs and not to be used as carrots for buyers until itās ready to compete against best in class.
For every new or renovated major road project, it should require a separate bike or micromobility lane to be built along side, much like requirement for road shoulder. Until federal and local government put the mandate into law, e-bike or bike in general will not be part of meaningful daily...