PNW to SW R1T Road Trip (Portland, Boise, SLC, Moab, Flagstaff, SF, Portland)

[jjswan33]

On a early summer road trip. Just me and the dog and my beautiful blue R1T.

Day 1:
Started in Sandy at 100% SOC
First charging stop EA station in Hermiston OR Space Age station. White R1T in a stall charging when I arrived.. hello friends
350kW station, max 215kW observed
Charged 39% to 77% SOC 24 min 22 sec 56 kWh delivered
Second charging stop EA station in T and T Country Store in Huntington OR. Had to be the oddest charging station I have been too. One ancient gas pump and 4 EA stalls.
Used a 350 kW stall, max 203kW observed (R1T showed station limited for part of the charge)
Charged 14% to 67% SOC 32 min 43 sec 79 kWh delivered
Arrived in Boise around 36% SOC

Used Driver+ most of the way, 98% driving in Conserve. 2.12 mi/kWh average.

One oddity of the day. R1T thought the speed limit on a portion of I84 in eastern OR was 43 mph???

Will update as I travel… not sure where to yet, will decide tomorrow

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[SeaGeo]

I vote McCall next. Mostly because I want someone else to be the test dummy...

Edit: Obviously thanks for sharing! The first charge looked like you pulled pretty close to the theoretical curve. The second one was about 7 minutes "slower" than would be ideal. Not the end of the world, but it'll be nice when they clean that up a bit.

side note: It looks like around 15 to 20% charging losses scaling energy delivered against the usable pack size. Interestingly 10 to 55% with the theoretical curve and ~20% losses basically hits 140 miles in 20 minutes basing things off a range of 314 miles. I've yet to see someone pull 10 to 55% without throttling, so hopefully they can get that fixed to hit their claimed speeds.

 

[Riviot]

Hit the 21 to Stanley then down to Craters of the Moon!

 

[R1Sky Business]

Solid charging

 

[prestapost]

I vote McCall next. Mostly because I want someone else to be the test dummy...

I’d love to see a decent charging station in McCall… or even New Meadows.

I can get to Seattle, Vancouver, Portland, Missoula, and Glacier easy… Boise is going to be a challenge, due to lack of charging between there and Pullman WA.

 

[Riviot]

I’d love to see a decent charging station in McCall… or even New Meadows.

I can get to Seattle, Vancouver, Portland, Missoula, and Glacier easy… Boise is going to be a challenge, due to lack of charging between there and Pullman WA.

Is the Clearwater River Casino 50kWh charger not good enough for you? ?

 

[prestapost]

Is the Clearwater River Casino 50kWh charger not good enough for you? ?

That’s 260+ miles from Boise. Less than ideal and way worse than my options to other cities.

 

[jjswan33]

Day 2 update - Drove to Salt Lake City.... Moab next??

First things first. Went to bed at 36% SOC and in the Morning 30% ?
Gear guard was on, but 6%???

First charge Walmart in Boise ID, 350kW EA station, Max 216kW
Charged 28% to 79%
71kWh delivered in 30min 33sec
Second charge Stinker Store in Hepburn ID, 350kW EA station, Max 192kW
Charged 16% to 78%
91kWh delivered in 41min 59sec
Third charge Walmart in Perry UT, 350kW EA station, Max 163kW (station limited)
Charged 29% to 74%
65kWh delivered in 29min 23sec

Arrived in Salt Lake at 54% SOC.

So about my efficiency, somehow my trip computer got corrupted this morning tooling around Boise, not sure how. Before I even left Boise it showed massive energy consumption (on both trip computers) taking my 2.12 mi/kWh from yesterday down to like 0.5 mi/kWh before I even left Boise. Also on the trip B that I reset this morning it shows total consumption of 223kWh but based on the charging above and beginning/ending SOC I should have used around 155kWh 165kWh (edit: factoring 2-3% bonus SOC after leaving a fast charging session).

I definitely averaged above 2 which is impressive because speed limit on I84 was 80mph for most of the journey and I was going 85mph (the max driver+ allows) and I won’t confirm or deny that I tested the high speed of my truck

 

[SeaGeo]

There is so much about this that is helpful! If you get a chance I'd be curious what you see for an average consumption at 80 or 85 mph. Even just on some flat ground with that 15 minute average. I've been curious what we would see in reality at such high speeds. 155kwh for the day seems right for what you said, but that's... weirdly efficient for that mileage.

 

[SeaGeo]

Is the Clearwater River Casino 50kWh charger not good enough for you? ?

That’s 260+ miles from Boise. Less than ideal and way worse than my options to other cities.

That'd be an interesting drive back from Boise with.... zero spots to bail that aren't an RV park. I'd be curious what the Rivian would project.

It'd be really convenient if Rivian had a custom route planner on their website like ABRP but with their R1T and R1S data.

 

[jjswan33]

There is so much about this that is helpful! If you get a chance I'd be curious what you see for an average consumption at 80 or 85 mph. Even just on some flat ground with that 15 minute average. I've been curious what we would see in reality at such high speeds. 155kwh for the day seems right for what you said, but that's... weirdly efficient for that mileage.

I agree that 2.3 seems a bit high (which is what 155kWh would suggest), probably my math is a bit off because of the 2-3% extra charge you get after you leave a fast charging session, that considered maybe closer to 165kWh which would be ~2.16 mi/kWh and more in line with what I would suspect from watching the efficiency wigit.

For long flat sections at 85 mph I was definitely hovering around the 2 mi/kWh line. I was in conserve for most of the drive.

 

[SeaGeo]

I agree that 2.3 seems a bit high (which is what 155kWh would suggest), probably my math is a bit off because of the 2-3% extra charge you get after you leave a fast charging session, that considered maybe closer to 165kWh which would be ~2.16 mi/kWh and more in line with what I would suspect from watching the efficiency wigit.

Going off percentages and a usable capacity of 125kwh, I get to 165 too. Not sure why I made it more complicated than that originally.

 

[Riviot]

So about my efficiency, somehow my trip computer got corrupted this morning tooling around Boise, not sure how. Before I even left Boise it showed massive energy consumption (on both trip computers) taking my 2.12 mi/kWh from yesterday down to like 0.5 mi/kWh before I even left Boise.

I've found I have to mash the trip reset button to get the Total Energy to reset. Everything else resets except for that unless I mash it a bunch. Perhaps this was your corrupting factor?

but that's... weirdly efficient for that mileage.

Keep in mind, he's at 3000+ feet elevation, so less air resistance than us at sea level.

 

[jjswan33]

I've found I have to mash the trip reset button to get the Total Energy to reset. Everything else resets except for that unless I mash it a bunch. Perhaps this was your corrupting factor?

Thanks for the tip, it’s possible but I recall it was fine after I reset it and also trip a that I didn’t reset was corrupted.

 

[JeremyP]

Let me know if you go to Moab, I'll be there tomorrow night! A cool drive to do if you go there is take highway 279 on the north side of the river to Long canyon, and then when you get to the top you can go to canyon canyonlands or dead horse point state park. I'd be curious about your energy use going up long canyon which is gravel/ dirt but not very rough, but with a lot of elevation gain.

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