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The R1 system was designed to have vampire drain, waste energy, and overload a tiny 12v battery which often leads to failure in a year or less possibly bricking the vehicle. I'm sure the R1 was not designed to have a trickle charger on the OBD or anywhere. This is a hack to mitigate R1 poor...

Even if inside my experience with suction cups is pretty bad. I'd either tape to the glass, prop the panel up somewhere, or if you want to build something build an x with plastic poles or something and have them slot into the spot where the headliner and glass meat. The sun shades have little...

Just practice in your driveway or empty lot so you know exactly what to quickly do. Try tapping the screen for neutral and using the stalk so you know how each work. Once you've got used to it, then it's easy. But I can understand the panic if unprepared. Once in my Tesla I didn't realize some...

That's a good question. If I had a dual battery R1 I probably wouldn't use the trickle charger to OBD unless it was for a rare camping trip or extended parking. Would change my opinion if someone has an explanation of the OBD charging keeping the secondary battery maintained. I guess someone...

You do both at home - you plug the input of the trickle charger into a household outlet. You plug the trickle charger output to OBD to keep the 12v battery topped off. Many users report KWh savings plus it might prolong the health of the 12v AGM. Instead of pugging output to OBD you could wire...

I have a monthly membership and drive right by the wash every day anyways. Takes about 5 minutes. My car is black and sometimes I wash 2-3 times a week. I washed my cars myself back in my 20s but with busy work and young kids it's something I never do any more and have zero regrets.

Have you ever gone to a restaurant? Cook your food yourself. Works great. Good exercise. Takes less than 2 hours. It's way cheaper to buy groceries and control everything you eat. Takes less time than putting on nice clothes, driving, and waiting at some other building.

I have a model Y and can't wait to get rid of it. Actually loved the Tesla at first, but I've got progressively more annoyed at the downsides of the car each month, can't stand Elon, and have been blown away how awesome the Rivian is. I reserved the R2 the day reservations opened but was a few...

Worry #1 is yes silly to even be an issue as the 12v is very underpowered. But it can be planned for and mitigated. I have tools to manually open the R1S frunk in the hitch, and in the frunk a 30Ah lifepo that can jump or even run in place of the stock 12v. I actually was stranded earlier this...

Just realized a problem though.... was going to get a rear tire carrier for the hitch to have a full size spare on an R1S... think it would be impossible to find one of those with enough room for a rear hitch mount? Seems like Rivian sure missed some key use cases for the R1 as an "adventure"...

Hoping someone makes a front bumper with a winch mount. Until that time this type of rear hitch mount is sadly probably the only solution. For batteries I think I'd use two of these types of lifepo... 400amp continuous (and higher for 1-5 seconds up to 1600amps) should be enough for a 12k...

So you'll remove the stock battery? That might work. Will kind of suck to never be able to use that frunk space. Not sure if the R1 would be more likely to throw error codes, as it'll be pushing and pulling way more watts than expected to charge/discharge. I don't think it would work to leave...

Ok I've been thinking about it, this is what somebody should get for camping; 7 units of the 400w portable solar panels - 34"x112" each - 30lbs each or 210lbs total and folded to tall 34"x28" stack during transport - https://a.co/d/1S1SaXq Delta Pro Ultra - 6kwH storage and 7kw inverter -...

I did - I responded to the OP previously. The reply of mine you quoted was not to the OP.

Flexible panel wouldn't be too bad with aero, I could see mounting that on a roof - but no way can I ever see rigid panels making sense. With the R1 having such high energy use while awake I agree with others it would have to be a powerbank that was charged then use that to quickly dump some...

How did you read that it was only about wind - not power from this post I responded to:

How did you read that it was only about wind - not power from this post I responded to:

It'll be interesting what options are for 12v replacement when more R1 are out of warranty. The rate these batteries goes bad mean this might need to be something changed annually - on dual 12v battery vehicles that's going to be the cost of 5-10 years of ICE oil changes.

Here is an off the shelf 100ah lifepo that is 10x5x9. https://www.litime.com/products/12v-100ah-mini-lifepo4-battery I'd think Rivian could easily have done a different design from the 14x3x8 current size to have fit something like that when designing the R1. The R1 is a large 3 row SUV - lots...

Oh I'm sure theres dozens of examples where it would have helped. Still doesn't make any sense as an option for Rivian to factory install on every R1.