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Dave, Yes, I am trying that as well. They were saying late Sept! Ill go through many 100's of kWh by then!

Audiotek, Thanks for your thoughts. There is never anything in the truck, seatbelts are never left buckled, gear guard has never once been on. - To de-activate proximity sensing, is this in the truck settings to app settings? Is this for the phone key or the white RFID card key? Tesla has...

I love my R1T, except for one really big issue: it has an excessive vampire battery drain while parked, locked, app closed! It is about 1kWh every day....doing nothing whereas Tesla M3 is about 10x less drain! Why, when Tesla has all the same connectivity? There was an easy competitor to...

Michael, Super comprehensive and detailed report! I read it since I have a very similar set up right now and results are much better. This seems strange since I have the exact same truck (R1T dual motor non performance, long range battery) in a 2024 model year (or picked up on Oct 2024. I have...

Can Rivian please listen to all the crazy things people are dreaming up to hack the Rivian into not draining so much idle power (vampire load)? Rivian, are you monitoring this? Are you working on this issue. It'll save millions of kWh, save all your customers money and waste less energy...

Wow, that amount of drain is totally insane. I have been horrified by 1kWh drain per day when my M3 is way less with all the same basic remote iPhone functionallity. Setting the truck in "Shipping" mode, turning off the Rivian app seems to have gotten drain down to about 0.75kWh/day, a little...

Manalishi, don't think the button has too much to do with it versus just good engineering for minimum vampire drain. Any vehicle with a Bluetooth phone connection will obviously have some vampire drain but it can easily be 10x less than Rivian currently exhibits, then none of us would have to...

Wow, even with a 13-14W, 1A 12VDC battery tender, the R1-T still sucks up that much energy?!? Crazy. If you need a 3A, 39W battery tender to keep the truck from having vampire loss, the tender alone could be using over 1kW per day (A 2A, 26W tender would use 0.7kWh/day)! Rivian really needs to...

Great to see real data and comparison! Nice job. Amazing that the Ford Lightning did best! With how much my R1-T sits around, I now wish I bought the Ford Lightning. I picked Rivian because it seemed to be more efficient on the road. I never thought that the vampire drain would overshadow the...

Shrink, Nice looking "fleet". I noticed right away that you pointed out the lack of big vampire drain in the new Ionic 5 versus the R1-T's. I really, really hope Rivian figures this out. After seeing lots of comments and hacks for reducing R1-T vampire losses, I haven't wanted to do the...

Mark, Makes alot of sense. I wish I had know before buying my R1T.. I really like the R1T but the Vampire loss issue and all the hacks and workarounds people have to do really bother me. It's not trivial and Rivian launched years after a good benchmark was set by Tesla and they have had years...

Mark, Makes alot of sense. I wish I had know before buying my R1T.. I really like it but the Vampire issue and all the workarounds really bother me. It's not trivial and Rivian launched years after a good benchmark was set by Tesla and they have had years to fix it, but still nothing. I'm...

Wow, even a gas car lead acid battery lasts 5-8 years and it gets alot more abuse than a 12V battery in an EV should get! Rivian should fix this issue. If I do a "tender" idea, it'll be with a small solar module and 13.6V regulator to not overcharge the assumed 2V lead acid battery. Solectria...

I have written to Rivian about this and seen many users complaining about the vampire drain and loss of energy. Please let your Rivian contacts know about this issue and that you care. Really, its the only thing I dislike about my R1T. I followed lots of suggestions including making sure...

Yes, I heard this on the forum and I am running a 2-week test in this mode now. I put in shipping mode, locked the truck and closed the app (swiped off phone). Its in about a 40degF location.

BigSky, That's what I originally wanted to do, disconnect the 12V battery or better yet, disconnect the loads from the 12V battery instead of try to feed it to stave off the losses. I was hoping to have no losses when the truck sits for a month at a time un-used. I loose 20% when it sits for...

What made the 12V battery die? I thought the HV battery wakes up and charges the low voltage battery whenever needed?!?

With gear guard off and everything off, truck locked and App on phone closed, mine burns up 0.7 to 1kWh PER DAY! Crazy. I’ve heard on the forum that this is “normal”. It’s 7-10x more vampire drain than other EVs I own and about 5% per week or 20% per month, meaning you’ll go through more than...

Good idea with the solar, I wish Rivian had just built a small solar module into the design, it could be embedded in the rear window, along the top of windshield or somewhere on the body. Wow 2% energy use per day for Gear Gaurd, that crazy, 1.4kWh/day. My Eufy cameras around the house run 180...

I’ll write back in a week and then 2 weeks with the shipping mode on and locked, all else should be off, like Gear Guard.