R1T Cooking/ Small Tailgating Appliances Test With Onboard 120V Outlet

[R1Sky Business]

8 min video. By Rex Briggs. Video content:

"As I prepared for a major overland/off-road trip, I was realized I didn't have to rough it when it came to cooking. I had electricity, and there is a ton I could plug in to the RIVIAN R1T to make meals a joy.​

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With 120V, 12amp, 1400W rating, I wanted to test out a 1500W toaster oven and my 1200W Hot Plate (not plugged in at the same time). This video covers this test, and several other items I evaluated in terms of Watts.​

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The video ends with my breakfast at over 10,000 feet, in the beautiful High Sierras."​

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[rodhx]

I’ve been wondering if you could use a crockpot/slow cooker.

 

[R1Sky Business]

I’ve been wondering if you could use a crockpot/slow cooker.

Wonder no more

 

[MaxMike77]

Great video! I wish there was a version of the camp kitchen for the R1S.

 

[jjswan33]

I'm not sure where this guy got 1400W. The owners manual clearly says the outlets are rated to 1500W.

For my own use I have run a microwave, air fryer, griddle/grill device among others. No problems. As long as your appliance isn't rated to 1800W the R1T is likely golden.

The only place I encountered an issue was connecting to my transfer switch, posted elsewhere, and that issue wasn't power draw but instead some type of ground loop.

 

[Max]

Every EV should have this feature. Although 1500 watts would run most of my stuff, if R1 had the same power as Ioniq5 (1900 watts) or small pack Lightning (2400 watts), I wouldn’t have to check the button of any of my stuff to see if it works. My hairdryer (1875 watts) has to stay home otherwise it would be nice to keep in there in winter. Although new hairdryer is easy to get, during power outage, every extra watt counts. I wonder if dual motor, max pack or anything coming out later will have higher output.

 

[DannyC]

What happens if you overload your inverter? How do you reset it? I can't seem to find that info. Would not be hard to trip a breaker or the inverter itself since a standard 15 amp circuit at home can handle 1,800 watts and so many items that will fit in a standard outlet can trip that inverter.

I am guessing the inverter will just turn off and once you remove the load you can turn it back on. But I never tried overloading it.

 

[jjswan33]

What happens if you overload your inverter? How do you reset it? I can't seem to find that info. Would not be hard to trip a breaker or the inverter itself since a standard 15 amp circuit at home can handle 1,800 watts and so many items that will fit in a standard outlet can trip that inverter.

I am guessing the inverter will just turn off and once you remove the load you can turn it back on. But I never tried overloading it.

When I was tripping it with a ground loop it just turned off.

 

[Bee]

1500 watts is an intense amount of electricity. Your fridge 99.9% chance doesn't even go over 800 watts.

I'm a 3D animator and at any given time I'm running a PC with a 1500-2000 watt power supply with 2-4 top end video cards to the point where I run a 240v with BBU and I could run almost any machine on a Rivian (and it'd be it's own BBU!).

Most people could run their central air or even stoves off this amount of power (assuming 120v).

We need less testing of 120v, we get it, a full circuit. What we need is a 240v output at 50 amps.

 

[Singletracker]

Would it be fair to assume that running a say 1000W appliance for an hour, would be an inconsequential drain on the Rivian battery?

 

[DJG]

Would it be fair to assume that running a say 1000W appliance for an hour, would be an inconsequential drain on the Rivian battery?

That would use exactly 1kwh of energy, which equates to less than 1% of the battery or about 2 miles of range.

That would be about the energy drain from using induction cooking for two meals, assuming each was about 30 mins of cooking time.

 

[Singletracker]

That would use exactly 1kwh of energy, which equates to less than 1% of the battery or about 2 miles of range.

That would be about the energy drain from using induction cooking for two meals, assuming each was about 30 mins of cooking time.

That’s pretty much what I was thinking. Thanks.

 

[jjswan33]

That would use exactly 1kwh of energy, which equates to less than 1% of the battery or about 2 miles of range.

That would be about the energy drain from using induction cooking for two meals, assuming each was about 30 mins of cooking time.

Keep in mind that that 1kW appliance wouldn't likely pull 1kW the whole time. Most cooking appliances will cycle between on and off to maintain temp so 1 kWh would be worst case but likely half of that in real world applications.

 

[DJG]

Keep in mind that that 1kW appliance wouldn't likely pull 1kW the whole time. Most cooking appliances will cycle between on and off to maintain temp so 1 kWh would be worst case but likely half of that in real world applications.

That's correct. For example, the most common appliance you'd be using with that power is induction cooking. You'd use up to the full 1500w capability at high heat, but then backing off to moderate levels would be less than 1000w. 1500w is what is typically needed to produce cooking temps of over 400 degrees.

But, I'd say 1000w is decent estimate of an average power usage over a full cooking session from the information I've seen.

 

[Singletracker]

I mentioned 1000w, but that was just a random # to verify the impact on the Rivian battery. Clearly, it sounds like one could do a heck of a lot of cooking, without putting much of a dent in the battery.

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