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Cold-weather comfort doesn’t have to mean blasting heat constantly, especially when driving alone. What strategies have you found that balance comfort and efficiency for you and your passengers? — Team Electruck

Posting to share my experience and just check that everyone else is in this fever dream with me. About a month ago Someone barely backed into the front, passenger side fender of our Rivian R1S. Cosmetically, it's almost unnoticeable, however it appears it slightly bent the fender in towards the...

Howdy all! Another update from your friendly neighborhood Spi... Soonish Team! First! A lot of us have been having to pay Rivian $900 to replace to 2 sets of 12v batteries, something that we should be able to do ourselves. Or we have one other option in regards to an aftermarket option thats...

I'm going to be traveling for 3 months and will have my 2023 R1T safely parked in our building's underground garage. Just wanted to ask what 3 months of inactivity for the vehicle might look like. Specifically, what charging percentage makes sense for the vehicle to just top up? Will definitely...

I have a 2023 Rivian R1S quad adventure. I’ve installed the arrival skid plate on the front as well as megawatt rock sliders on the sides. I do not seem to have the underbody shield for the battery. I purchased this car used so I’m not upset about it. I’ve read that Rivian says the battery is...

R1T owners… If you please, I need your guidance on a few things… Dual Standard - I love the LFP battery and am totally fine with 270 miles of range. The large pack doesn’t offer significantly more range, costs more and I’m not as big of a fan of the NMC battery. Any insight on my thinking...

Turns out there is a safe and seemingly reliable way to disconnect and or change the main 12V battery on 2023+ Gen 1 Single Battery R1Ts (and most likely R1Ss) - at least as of firmware 2024.51.02 (not tried or tested earlier). Here are the simple steps that allow you to prep the car for...

One of the main gripes I have about these electric vehicles. Any by these I mean Tesla and Rivian specifically, is there is no physical key. Access to the vehicle is entirely dependent on the 12v battery functioning properly, and as we know this seems to be the achilles heel of these vehicles...

I’m a new 2nd gen R1S owner. It’s great mostly minutes a few glitches but when I just drive 36 miles and it takes 70 miles off the charge is this normal? Granted I’m in Mn and it’s cold today but still. Almost double the actual mileage. So my 380 on a full charge is 200 in winter? I’d love to...

Gen1 R1S and this is my second winter with the car. With the weather getting colder, I'm seeing my efficiency start to go down. I was wondering if anyone had done any studies or research into: 1. How much energy goes into conditioning the battery ready for departure? What is the ideal battery...

I picked up a 2024 R1T Large Performance (22" Sport) from the shop about a month ago. I finally got around to hooking up ABRP and noticed my battery capacity is being reported as 138.4 kWh. This is quite a bit more than the 131 kWh capacity documented by Rivian and a bit lower than the 141 kWh...

This is another phenomenal EE video, breaking down the battery chemistry and internal reactions. For those who want a quick synopsis: Multiple studies do demonstrate that *generally* DCFC fast charging does degrade battery chemistry faster than slower charging. HOWEVER, the significance is...

Hello lovely fellow Rivian owners and Enthusiasts! I am currently building out a fairly substantial Sound system on my 2024 R1S Quad "detailed installation specs to come" and I was wondering if anyone had a diagram of the updated battery/capacitor for the current 12v system? specifically I...

It would be nice to NOT have a limit on mi/kWh. Appears to be limited to 4… But why? Let’s say my trip is essentially all downhill. mi/kWh could essentially be 99+ I don’t see a reason to limit it to 4 mi/kWh. Please update this in a future software update Rivian ?

Hi there, I took delivery yesterday of my Rivian R1T. In San Francisco. I dropped it at Matson in the port of Oakland to ship it to Oahu. They made me drive the truck around until the battery was at 66%. Whey won’t accept a ev with more than a 65% charge. I left it in shipping mode with the...

Recently my R1S has not been preconditioning the battery when I set a charger destination in the nav. I’m curious if this is because of mild temperatures (60s and 70s recently). Or perhaps because I’m not going past the charger, that is I’m setting the destination as the charger so it might...

I'm on day 8 of owning an R1S in Denver and unable to drive the vehicle due to error "Battery depleted - Charge up and try again" The vehicle is reporting 71% battery level (200 mi). After doing a full vehicle reset, I was able to shift into Drive. But trying again after a couple hours I got...

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I just charged my R1T overnight for the first time with the wall charger. I set it to charge from 12am to 6am. I’m not able to find in the charging session summary how long it actually charged. It shows how long it was plugged in which was about 13 hours but I know it took less than 6 hours to...

Hey everyone. I had the chance to leave the R1T in the garage for about two months while I'm (still...:rolleyes:) out of town training for a new job. I thought this would be a good time to see how long I could leave it unplugged! Unfortunately I didn't take as much data as all you smarty-pants'...