IMO it's safer (and every driver training authority and vehicle manual you check will agree), especially in less than ideal driving conditions. I just set my regen to "low" when i want more of that "coasting" experience, but it's one less thing to go wrong if the vehicle decelerates, rather than...
Two things to note:
1) this is not a Nissan; have you test-driven any other vehicles and confirmed it's jut not your cup of tea?
2) the way to get to less of a feeling of one-pedal driving is by lowering the intensity of regenerative braking in a Rivian.
At the end of the day, completely...
Let's do apples to apples? I had a GX460 prior to my R1S, and had to do a mod to avoid the Secondary Air Injection system filter from eventually disintegrating and causing a giant PITA; had intermittent TRAC OFF light due to one of the (something like 4?) O2 sensors intermittently going out of...
thank you for the detailed report; how are you capturing this info? I've just been eyeballing the drivemode screen and was bummed out to discover my OBD2 dongle and Torque are useless with the R1S...
I was responding to the assertion that the Rivian repair costs would make even luxury/exotic vehicle owners balk at them. Suspension components going on a pneumatic suspension are sort of what comes with the territory. There are VW and Lexus forums similarly full of people bitching and moaning...
Nah... first, $8-10k figure seems to be overblown for Rivian... second, let's get some reality checks:
Exotics and supercars:
Maserati Quattroporte / GranTurismo
Clutch replacements (on older single-clutch models) can run $5k–$7k; suspension, electronics, and brakes push total costs into the...