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Another potential problem with the earliest builds was the double 12V batteries, which changed to a single 12V battery plus a capacitor sometime in early 2023.

I mean, yeah, the perception is that you're the kind of person who spends $100k on a vehicle (or at least $75k). For lots of folks that alone gives an impression of you as rich and dumb. I think my friends might think that about me now. I agree with them, but I love my Rivian.

Not much. Moving some electrons around is not a big energy cost compared to propelling a 7000lb vehicle. Less than 1%. I think that on the highway, the efficiency improvement of Gen 2 is pretty small. For a real increase in highway range, the huge battery pack would be necessary. Or driving slower.

I find the R1S is almost too large to make parking in the city reasonable, but it's not too large. Some spots are tighter than others but it usually can turn and fit ok. Not always fun. But here in the US it's never the biggest car in the lot either (by a long shot usually). The birds eye camera...

Have you used chains or cables on the R1T?

This isn't really accurate, it was more a continuous series of changes made over time. Two 12V batteries to one plus capacitor, subframe change, elimination of frunk 12V port, dual horns to one horn, magnetic frunk attachment to plastic clips, elimination of driver 12V port, placement of horn...

It is worse. e.g. https://www.rivianforums.com/forum/threads/undriveable-at-night-in-wet-snow-due-to-led-headlights-not-melting-snow-ice.9956/

Rivian calls the setting Regenerative Braking Assist. It's in the settings menu somewhere. I don't know about the resistor bank. I doubt Rivian has this since it limits the regen braking a lot in many scenarios. More info may be found searching these forums.

If your seatbelt is buckled, this shouldn’t happen even if you lift off the seat. (I hate this feature. Also, it’s not related to towing AFAIK)

Looks like _evtrk lives in Florida, where the winter efficiency hit does not exist. For me a route that used to be 2.5 mi/kWh in the summer is now like 1.9. So I wouldn't be too discouraged if you're seeing bad numbers in the cold right now.

As we all know, the patent system is ridiculous and has been for a while. I don't necessarily blame Rivian for playing the game but it's so dumb.

Awesome. Would love to see this next to a Compass Yellow. CY is actually pretty modest in person, kind of a mustard. I like that this is a lot more orange than schoolbus.

Yeah, this is all cool but for me I'm interested in vampire drain solutions when out camping or other cases where the range hit is the main problem. Some of these could lead to that, but it would still have to be a long trip to be worth it.

The miles of range numbers are literally guesses. That could change from any small tweak to their guess-o-meter heuristic. It's not significant. A change to how battery management works is obviously significant. We should discuss that and battery percentages or kWh, not estimated miles of...

You're thinking of this: https://www.rival4x4usa.com/products/rival-aluminum-skid-plate-rivian-r1t https://www.rivianforums.com/forum/threads/rival-aluminum-skid-plates-rivian-r1t-r1s-development.27769/ https://www.rivianforums.com/forum/threads/rival-skid-plate-installed.31121/ That's farther...

Front skidplate (to replace the OEM silver plastic piece). A true lift kit. I probably wouldn't buy this, but I'd really want to.

I've been wondering about this as I look forward to replacing my Pirelli ATs. Efficiency is very helpful but I do offroad in the rocky Rockies and lost a Pirelli to a sidewall gash. Seems like the Open Country LT is a bit overkill for me but I don't know if the SL is tough enough.

Lots of threads about this if you search the forums. You can look at Budman's data: https://www.rivianforums.com/forum/threads/r1t-gen-1-quad-large-vs-gen-2-dual-max-pack-efficiency-and-charging-analysis.37135/

Traction control - don't know Chains or cables - more precisely, the owner's guide says cables only on 33" tires and then only on the rear. I suspect they might be ok on 34" at low speeds but haven't tried.

Thanks for sharing. Off camber and slippery is scary in a Rivian. Probably in other vehicles too. But there was a guy on these forums (R.I.P. Power?) who insisted the quad motors are especially bad in camber slippery conditions because of how their traction control works. I've played around a...